There's a relaxation that comes from doing something over and over.
"In the spa business, we learn techniques to achieve relaxation that can be done anywhere," she said.
But the combination of exacting execution and easy relaxation that makes Rossini sparkle was not yet realized.
These moves dramatically lessened South Africa's horror of Soviet communist incursion, and vitally created a new mood of relaxation that made possible Nelson Mandela's release.
The United States Agriculture Department is weighing a further relaxation that would allow the importation from Canada of live cattle under 30 months old, though ranchers in the United States have asked the department to reconsider.
That evening, "it was challenging, even for these hard men, to enjoy the sense of deep relaxation that follows a day of invigorating sport with this parcel of hydrophobic anguish dangling from a nearby tree.
Mettler added that meditating in power places can optimise energy absorption: "With a little practice, meditation allows us to absorb the energy by creating a state of relaxation that can be more effective than sleep".
That sense of being planted soon subsided, replaced by a general relaxation that lasted until the attendant hustled me into the shower 15 minutes later and I hosed off.
Another reason for the expanding number of children at British festivals is that many parents who grew up in the era of raves still want the odd weekend of music, friends and outdoor relaxation that will also entertain their children.
But Matisse's work has the relaxation that comes with complete technical mastery, allowing for deliberate awkwardness of hands, arms and shoulders, strokes cutting into one another, an elision of details that lesser talents would sweat.
I've seen the look in musicians in the studio, the purposeful relaxation that comes from working in the now.
