Are you graceful?

[Amrapaali]

Do you glide when you walk? And are your body movements thoughtful, measured and economical? How do you do it??!! [wails]

Last week I caught sight of myself walking past a shop window. And I was horrified, I tell you, absolutely flummoxed. It took me a good few minutes to recognise the Neanderthal walking past in the glass window.

Ok I knew I slouched a bit but this is the first time I actually saw myself walking- shoulders slouched, clumping along with a fierce scowl on my face. Ewww...

I've started improving my posture, standing up straight and actually people noticed me. The attention I got (Not like Madame Brick, but I DID see someone do the sidelong glance, the double take).

It may be because with a proper ramrod straight spine, my norks were actually in their face and not dropping down like spaniel's ears. But hey ho, I'll take it

Oh, another aside to this boring rambling- I've found I'm not clumsy anymore, once I start thinking about where my body is at any moment. Result!!

Pilates helps a lot with posture, I would never call myself graceful but my posture has improved no end.

Ahhh, Pilates, yes. My friend has been badgering me to join her class, I've been putting it off. Feel all self-conscious in an exercise setting...

Hmmm, maybe I have body ishoos...

No. I'm a blundering great dinosaur. Despite yoga classes

Awww, join the club, Hell. So you say yoga classes don't help...(grasping at any excuse not to exercise)

Bouncing is fun, I think. Except I may put out someone's eye with my HH norks. Or possibly knock myself unconscious!!

I don't have the cash to go to classes I just have a few resistance bands and dvds but they work have been doing it for three years am quite toned with improved posture.

Nope! graceful isn't the word I'm afraid LOL

No, I walk like Jar Jar Binks

Should we form a club, do you think? We could throw peanuts at the ethereal beings floating by...

Seriously, some women walk like their toes don't even touch the ground. I need to learn that trick...

No, had an operation on my feet as a baby and they've always been a bit awkward and flicky outty. I do walk tall and am graceful in my upper half, but the effect is ruined by the frantic duck walk below.

BusLady dare I suggest an extra-long maxidress that fully covers lower legs and feet? You'd glide along wonderfully, like a swan.

Like the idea of a club of galumphers. (Could we eat the peanuts, rather than throw them?)

Yoga does help with standing up straight, relaxing the shoulders, generally feeling that you're holding yourself up rather than slouching all over the place. I don't feel much more graceful though.

I walk like a cross between Shrek and a gorilla with clumsy tendencies.

I am far from graceful. I too have started standing up straight I don't seem to have such over hang when I do this.
I do seem to have boobs in people's faces mind.

Ooh this may explain why I feel so confident in maxi dresses!

Nah I'm about as graceful as a hippo. I have fallen arches, lax ligaments and extreme hyper mobility syndrome, I'm 5ft and about a stone overweight for what I should be, my norks are like baby elephants in a sack and i look down all the time because my nose is like Rudolph's all the time. I paint a pretty picture

Oh, I am very graceful. In the same way that your average heffalump is graceful

We are doomed, aren't we? My husband swears he saw some plaster fall off when I was clomping walking around upstairs.

He suggested I be more lady-like. He did get a painful, very lady-like dig in his ribs for that gem of unsolicited advice.

No. I slouch and am slightly knock-kneed. My walk is fast and ungainly. Rarely wear heels either, so it really is just clumpclumpclumpclump.......

Not in the slightest. I'm visually impaired though so that's my excuse

Oh hey Bitchy! I have BRF too. Are you a kindred spirit?

I like to think I am but my BF kindly informs me I stomp around like a baby elephant. And I've known her for 31 years...

Ha ha ha ha... MN is brimming over with galumphers. We will take over the world. Who needs Godzilla, eh?

My cousin, now, she has amazing posture. Grace and dignity, looks tall and imposing even though she is only 5.4 (admittedly that is considerably taller than me).

But then she is a trained Bharatanatyam dancer...

Oh yes, AND bitchy resting face. I could win prizes. Couldn't graciously accept them though.

So where are all the graceful people who should be replying telling us how to do it? Are you afraid we'll club you to death with our enormous gangling feet and norks?