More Yoga; Thursday, Second Period [08/17].

[died8yearsago]

"Well," said Rosa, "here we are, in our last class of yoga, which means we've got one last chakra to cover, and that would be Sahasrara chakra, also known as the crown chakra. This chakra is what links us to everything that is beyond our individual ego and sense of self. It lies beyond our intellect, our personal needs, our preferences and emotional experiences. The gateway to enlightenment. All that heavy spiritual crap.

"Sahasrara means 'thousands' in Sanskrit," she continued, "referring to the thousands of petals on a lotus flower, or something, and each petal is a different aspect of being. Emotions, thoughts, actions, all that stuff, so the idea is that when all those petals are open, there you go, perfect, complete balance. Allegedly. It's color is purple or violet, and its element is related to consciousness, which is apparently an element now, who'd've thunk it?

"So today," she concluded, "we're actually going to end off with a new sequence of moves meant to open up the crown chakra, so you can add that sequence to your repertoire with the sun salutation. Still warming up with that one, and then we'll learn the crown chakra sequence, and then you can finish off with whichever you prefer, and that's all she wrote. Hopefully I won't ever need to see any of your faces ever again."

Charming, Rosa. Truly. But was anyone really surprised?

Team-Building for Fun and Profit! - Thursday, Third Period [08/17].

[sword_chocobro]

Their last meeting was just going to be held in a regular classroom, and the energy in the air was definitely....off. A little tense. But, for the first time in a couple of week, all three of your instructors were present and accounted for, although it had been a real difficult thing to get Prompto to come at all. With how wan and distant he appeared, one had to wonder if there was really any point in his being there at all; he didn't seem to be present mentally, even if he was physically so, but Gladio and Ignis had both agreed that closing out your team-building class without your whole team just wasn't a great message to send.

So they were all there and Gladio sighed a little as he nodded and got things started.

"So," he said, "rough couple weeks for teams lately, huh? But that's fine, that's part of the process, sometimes things don't go to plan and your team gets broken up for a bit, but the important thing is that you come back together," he glanced over at Prompto; he looked back, although dully, "in the end. And sometimes things happen that are really going to drag you and your team down. Maybe you run into an obstacle you're having trouble overcoming. Maybe it's a big failure you didn't expect. Maybe it's two of your team members being trapped in a house in the woods for two weeks."

Surely, none of them knew anything about that.

"And that's rough. It can be hard to come back from something like that. It can be real demoralizing. But the important thing is picking yourself back up again and being ready to keep going. So today, we're just going to focus on motivation. Because one of the best things about working with a team is that you're not in it alone. And a team builds each other up, especially when you're down. So today, I want us all to talk about different ways of motivation that you believe in, and then I want to actually motivate each other in the simplest way possible: we're just going to go around and offer encouraging words to each other, about what we bring to the team, to end on a positive note, especially going forward."

2Paint2Ball, Thursday

[imafuturist]

Both of your teachers were human for the last week of classes! Which was great, right? Ignore the dog toys that were turned into paint grenades that Tony had ordered preemptively.

Because you never knew.

Well, Steve would still enjoy the paint grenades...and the paint arrows, now that he had thumbs again to use those bows. "Hi, everyone," he said with a wave. "I was a dog."

They knew, Steve.

"And he's back to normal just in time for our last class together," Tony added brightly. "Yaaay."

They were ridiculous.

They were completely ridiculous.

"We're going to have so much fun," Steve said.

2 Lava 2 Floor - 1st Period, Thursday

[needsacatchphrase]

Well, it was the last class and no, your teachers had not figured out how to fix the pink. Instead, things seemed extra pink. Almost out of spite.

"Welcome back," Jane said, clearly having just given in here. "This is our last week before the semester ends."

"Which might be for the best," Cara said as a bright pink glitter explosion went off over the lava.

The theme seemed to be a hodgepodge of all the previous themes with cats and lighthouses and dream houses bobbing on the 'lava'.

"It'll be fun," Jane promised.

Another glitter explosion went off. "Real fun."

Library, Thursday 8/17

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Why," Belle asked the apparently empty library, "are you piling up books on travel today? You're not planning on moving, are you?"

The library, being a library, didn't answer. But the pile of books on the desk grew a little taller.

Belle shook her head. Maybe she was just meant to read through tales of visiting interesting places today. It seemed a good enough way to spend her time.

Hopefully none of those places were as pink as her class had been this morning.