It’s Fun to Yoga at the YMCA
We have a semi-regular feature here on DTBMULF. And by semi-regular, I mean basically when I remember to do it. Anyway, Kiki and I sign up for different classes at the Y, we go to them, and we blog about it. I think our Zumba class has become legend.
This week, we did yoga. Well, in point of fact, we’ve been trying to do yoga for a few months. The class is small (about 8 people) and takes place in the Y chapel. It’s intimate, it’s relaxing, but we can’t hide in the back. (Con #1)
The instructor is fantastic. She’s chirpy and cute and very small…wait a sec…what’s so fantastic about that? Anyway, she knows her stuff. She wants our movements to flow from one to the next. I don’t know about Kiki, but my movements are decidedly un-flowy and very floppy and kerplunky. And for real? I’m mostly trying hard not to cut one while kerplunking between plank and down dog. God bless everyone, but there are so many joints popping in between, it sounds like a campfire there in the Y chapel. Also…the plow position? Yeah, not happening.
My favorite part is the ten minute relaxation we do at the end. Kiki though has some trouble laying flat on her back. Seriously, I think she’s having a spasm.
The verdict? We like it. However, I’m way too out of shape for yoga. Seriously, I need more cardio. And also…what is with this ganga breath business? (Hmmm….Kiki has just informed me that it’s ojai breath). Whatever. I pretty much think there’s one way to breath. You can breathe deep or you can breathe shallow, but that’s it. Trying to pretend you can do anything else I do not buy. I mean, you can tell me to digest my food out of my elbow, but I’m pretty sure it’s not going to work.
my husband and I do yoga!
(because I can say that right? since we went one time, both kept falling over and giggled through the relaxation period at the end. no joke. we were nicely asked to get it together or not return. I MARRIED MY DREAM MAN)
I just started a yoga class and I love it. I am totally out of shape but my instructor is great. She really focuses on me (and the other beginners). I had tried a yoga class a few years ago and I hated it but this class I am taking is 150 times better. Good luck and keep on truckin…
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I found your blog through Bossy! I can’t quit laughing. I have taken yoga for a while and there are just some positions that should not now or ever be done for someone my age! I usually fall asleep during cool down – what do you think that means?
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I fall asleep during deep breathing too!!
Kiki
My old roommate and I could not stifle the giggles either. Each position was more ridiculous than the last. And we worked at the Y! We too were politely asked to find another activity.
I do it now on the free on-demand section of my cable. I sometimes still laugh, but at least I’m not disrupting anyone else!
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I’ve just started doing yoga. Other than my first class experience of having a photographer from the local paper there to take pictures, it’s been fun.
Pictures.
In. My.Yoga. Pants.
In. The. Paper.
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I tried that Hot Yoga with a friend once. She swore by it. I just swore during it.
When the instructor (with oh about less than 1% body fat) told us to get in touch with our inner selves, to listen to what our bodies were telling us?
My body was telling me that if I ever tried to subject it to such nonsense again it would sue me for alienation of affection. And WIN.
Seriously, my real issue is that yoga is not supposed to be a fitness regime – it is supposedly a form of spirituality. You separate the philosophy away from the practice and I think we Westerners mostly miss the point.
Maybe mainline denominations are also missing something. Maybe between standing kneeling and sitting we should all give God 20 squat thrusts on Sunday AMs! Alleluia!
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I think that you Greta/Kiki should become fitness instructors! Who is with me? Just think of the ab workout we’d all get from laughing to tears. Honestly, I hate the fact that so many fitness classes ask you to leave your sense of humor at the door. What is it about people with too little body fat that makes them lose their sense of humor. Hmmm. Maybe I’m onto something. Which do you think goes first? Humor or fat? Ahh, who cares! If I have to be serious to be fit, I’m not doin’ it. I might give up bread and desserts to be healthy, but giving up laughing is NOT healthy. Even during fitness classes.