fandomhigh | Yoga; Thursday, Third Period [05/12].

Everyone in the class should have been told that, weather permitting, they'd be meeting at the beach each week (and the community center otherwise), so if they weren't there when class begun....oh, well. Rosa was definitely thinking she'd be 100% fine if everyone just didn't show up or wound up on the wrong beach, and she'd just spend the period going through her own forms without anyone bothering her, and, actually, could they just do that instead?

But, no, people did ~~presumably~~ show up, so Rosa sighed and supposed she did still have to, ugh, teach.

"Alright," she said, "I'm assuming you're all here for yoga. This is meant to be kind of a basics class for people of all abilities and experience levels, so if you're already pretty familiar with yoga, you should already know that even the simple stuff can still be helpful and beneficial, and if you're new, nothing should be so challenging that you can't wing at least a simplified version of the movements.

"So....what is yoga? I could go into some long, detailed lecture like some people," s'up, Blackstone?, "but I'm not going to. If you're really interested in the history and all that crap, there's a library and the internet. We're mostly going to be focusing on how yoga can be used to both relax and calm a person," suggesting that, yes, this was Rosa relaxed and calm from yoga; imagine how she'd be without it, "as well as stretch and tone and strengthen your body. It's a whole...wellness of mind and body equilibrium hippy-dippy bullshit, but, it works, so...."

She shrugged, like it couldn't be helped that even granola-crunching, chakra-enlightening hippies could still be right about some things.

"Anyway," she said. "We're going to just get started simply today by going over some of the basic forms you'll likely be using a lot in this class. Most classes will be just me teaching you a technique or sequence, and then spending the rest of the period practicing it and not talking and just focusing on what you're doing, which means it's one of the most perfect class concepts ever created. So, follow me through the twelve basic forms we'll go over today, and then we'll see how you are on your form or if you have any questions, and then you'll just work on them. That's it.

"It's yoga. It doesn't have to be complicated. In fact, I feel like that defeats the whole point."

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Like a granola-crunching, chakra-enlightening hippie.

Jonathan Sims

Lana Beniko

Nell Ingram

Liz Sherman

Steve McGarrett

The lecture itself is short and...well, not exactly sweet, but precise? And then there's the demonstration of the poses themselves, which Rosa will work through slowly and describe the finer points of as she goes through them and just assumes you're all following along, and, if not, that's your problem, not hers.

Rosa will call out the names of the poses as you cycle through them so you don't forget a few, but the rest of the class is for practicing the 12 basic poses, getting used to and familiar with them, and possibly having Rosa criticize your technique. Hey, it's nothing personal, it's literally her job to tell you if you're sucking!

Right. Jon could do this. Nothing seemed to require fine use of his hand, and his other scars didn't impede him any more than his already scrawny body did.

So here was a scarred, scrawny Englishman trying his best to go through the poses.

Lana nodded. The poses were largely different than she was used to, but it was similar enough to lightsaber forms and meditation that she shouldn't have a problem.

It was amusing to see she was around Rosa's age now. She wondered if she'd recognise her. Or admit it if she did.

She'd kept that "badass bitch" trophy, okay? It was still in her room at Alliance headquarters.

Nell had never seen this before, but she was pretty strong and flexible, so it wasn't too hard. Though her form wasn't great.

Liz didn’t really have much energy and it showed in her attempt to go through the different poses but she was trying to make an effort, even if her form did need work.

Ugh, fine. If you have to.

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