How many calories does pottery burn

Were these two hours fun like those other classes? Did I risk getting clay all over my iPhone by taking proud pictures? Still, this new adventure has already succeeded beyond my wildest expectations. Two, two, two. Ceramics could quiet me, too, or send an instant signal that I was in a bad place, that I needed to slow myself down, breathe, control the clay, and let the wheel do its work. Like a balancing pose in yoga, ceramics provides a perfect feedback loop: exit your body and enter your busy mind, and you will likely teeter and fall.

Or, in this case, try to bully the clay with strength, not stillness, and it turns into a guided missile rather than a bowl. The saving grace of this last class was that it nudged me in this direction of learning.

It provided welcome calm, however belated, not at the wheel but at the sink. There, long after the others had gone, I was still washing the splash pan and a dozen tools I had used that were now unrecognizable under the gobs of clay. As hot water ran over my hands, and I squeezed sponge after sponge until one was clean enough to scrub my work area, my breathing slowed and my shoulders unclenched and moved away from my ears.

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While we encourage you to try them all, we recommend art therapy. I read about a group of PTSD sufferers who use pottery as part of their recovery. I think many people would benefit from its calming influence. Many people would consider pottery an art or craft but I really like the fact there is so much science involved.

You can get by in pottery by not really understanding the science. However, if you want to make your own glazes and really understand firing schedules it's useful to know the science. You probably wont be burning many calories making pots but it's a fairly physical hobby.

Bags of clay weight The kneading of clay and upward pulls on the wheel all get the muscles going. If your kiln is at the bottom of the garden like mine there's a fair amount of walking too. It's a romantic notion to think of someone digging up my pottery in a few thousand years.

I'm not sure that the future archaeologists would be particularly impressed. Even if the pots don't end up buried in the ground, it's nice to think they will be around for a long time - providing someone doesn't drop them of course.

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