Taking Time For You, Wednesday, Second Period

[stickitupmyjinx]

"I hope everyone wore some comfortable clothes they can stretch in, because today we're going to do some yoga!" Vanessa said cheerfully. "Now, I know what you're thinking, 'But, Vanessa, I didn't bring a yoga mat,' but don't worry, I ordered yoga mats for everybody!" Or rather, the FBI had ordered yoga mats for everybody, courtesy of her and Wade's former neighbor the cop whose apartment they'd stolen's cover identity. Details. "Anyway. If you're new to yoga, it's an umbrella term for a group of physical, mental, and spiritual exercises that originated in India. A lot of people, especially in the West, use yoga as just a form of exercise, but it also has meditative or spiritual elements. Yoga has a lot of benefits I won't get into right now, but one of them is that it's good for destressing and, like I said, meditating. I'm no yoga instructor, but I found this great channel on YouTube with yoga routines for...basically anything you could think of, including a seven minute stress relief routine. She also has longer ones, but I like this one because, well, it only takes seven minutes, and now matter how crazy your life is, you can spare seven minutes, right? So, spread out your yoga mats and let's all take seven minutes right now to do this routine together." Vanessa hit play on the video.

After they'd finished, Vanessa asked the class, "So, what do you think of yoga so far?"

Comments

During the Lecture

[stickitupmyjinx]

Do yoga!

Re: During the Lecture

[misshapen_spark]

Yang...really wasn't good at doing anything 'meditatively.' Her default states were 'ON' and 'ON FIRE'. And while she was plenty athletic and flexible -- aspiring Huntress, duh -- she was, well, top-heavy. Let's just say crossing her arms over her chest to do the hug part wasn't happening.

Re: During the Lecture

[in_sidon_we_trust]

It was perhaps quite lucky that Sidon didn't technically wear clothes at all, so he was ready to stretch no matter how he came in that day! And he was definitely intrigued by this yoga thing, which asked him to move his body in ways he'd never thought to before. Some of it was quite awkward, with his non-human proportions, but some of it was quite nice, and he could easily see how the slow, deliberate movements might be relaxing, especially back home, doing it in the center of Zora's Domain with all the water gently rushing around them. This was definitely something he looked forward to bringing back home with him! Yoga!

Which sounded a bit like Yiga, but, clearly, there were no bananas involved.

Re: During the Lecture

[revengenotebook]

Paris was doing possibly the tensest yoga ever attempted.