Spinning as relaxation

A friend sent me the following URL today. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/19/fashion/thursdaystyles/19spinning.html
I found this article to be of great interest. Basically it points out that there are more and more people finding the joy of spinning. And the reason they are enjoying it so much is because of its calming, relaxing and meditative qualities. These are things that I’ve always claimed about spinning and from a perspective of more than twenty years. When I was teaching I can remember telling my students that one day they would realize this, and that was when they were agonizing about just making yarn! I can personally attest to the fact that I survived my children’s teen years by locking myself up with my spinning wheel.