Concrete Dome
Project
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Created
for the purpose of stretching the spine.
I
once fixed an excruciatingly painful pinched nerve in my back by lying on a
large boulder, on a camping trip. My
pinched nerve was from an old injury, and had flared up on a road trip,
apparently irritated by sitting in the car all day. I could barely walk.
We
were at Mt. Lassen National Park in California. I found a large boulder, roughly spherical and about 6 feet
wide, and laid on it, belly up, for about forty minutes. It was one of the only positions in
which I could be comfortable.
After forty minutes, I slowly climbed down to the ground, and oh my
gosh! The pain was ERASED from my
body. What had been a crippling
condition only forty minutes earlier, was now completely gone. There was no trace of it, no soreness,
no tenderness. Nothing.
I
vowed, on that day, to make my own boulder, when I had suitable space to do
so. When I moved to Portland in the
spring of 2011, my backyard afforded me the appropriate location.
Click to see a
documentary of the dome-building project on YouTube (6:37)
Copyright 2016
Andrew Maxwell