Yoga Class

So me and my go to the gym a lot. well...my mom goes more then i do, but i usually go about 3 times in a week. since we go so much we have kind of gotten tired of doing the same things each time we go. to help mix it up a little we have started taking some of the different classes that they offer on Saturdays. This last saturday we went to a step class that started at 9:10. each class is an hour long. so after spinning around and jumping up and down for an hour we were finished. When we were cleaning up our steps we noticed the next people coming in had yoga mats with them.. the teacher cam in turned off the lights and put on some ocean sounding music. My mom and i just looked at each other. we then had the grand idea that we should stay for the yoga class as well. we figured why not? it could be fun right?

well this is how the class went...first i am sitting on the ground all hot and sweaty from the class before. second i am sitting in a position where my legs are wrapped around each other and my back is arched and the lady up front is telling me to breath. ok..so far not so hard..i can do this. then we proceed to move into downward dog..also not so hard. i can do this as well. then she tells us all to swing are right leg up and behind our backs. bend your knee so that you right foot now touches your head.....my thoughts - yeah right. how in the world is my right foot supposed to go behind and over my back to touch my head that is down by my hands on the floor? not going to happen. my foot can touch my butt...and maybe the small of my back..but in no world is my foot going to touch my head that way. Then guess what comes next.....we get to do the same thing with the other leg. This time since i already knew tht i could not do this i decided to look around and see how people actually could. and do you know what i saw? i saw a bunch of people with their foot touching their head. men included. i do not know how this is possible, but i will figure it out.

from here we continued with a variety of different postions and streches. the teacher kept telling every one to breath and to relax. to take in the heat and the enegry around you and to release the stress. if this didn't almost make me laugh it might have worked. the part that really got to me though was the lift move. we had been doing postions for a while and were really getting into it. then she had us all sit on the floor with our feet in front of us. these were her next words. "now take your right leg and throw it over your sholder and around your neck. slip your hands under your left leg. extend your left leg and then lift yourself off the ground and breathe..."

this is about the point where i loose it. it is about all i can do not to lie on the ground laughing. why am i laughing so hard you may ask...well there is this brian regan segement on yoga. if you have not heard it it is attached for your convinance..if you have heard it go and listen to it anyway because you will realize that what the teacher just said is about the same as what brian is making fun of. since i had heard this before and had made fun of it myself it was all i could do to just sit on the ground and not move. and then to make it better...she wants everyone to repeat it with their left leg. just imagine... me sitting on the floor trying not to laugh. my mom sitting next to me trying not to laugh. and everyone else in the room trying to throw their leg over their sholder, lift and breathe...now you tell me if you could sit through that and not laugh. i just about lost it. good thing that after that the class was almost over. we just did some more wrap your legs around your body things, breathed and were done. it was a good thing to because i don't thinki could have held it all in much longer.

needless to say i don't think i will be going back to that class for awhile. not until i can touch my head with my foot at least.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym0rIWaICJI