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Yoga; Thursday, Second Period [05/11].

Everyone in the class should have gotten some kind of instructions 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 would be 100% fine if no one showed up at all, or if everyone actually ended up o on the wrong beach, because that would mean she'd just spend the period going through her own forms without anyone bothering her, and, actually, no, on second thought, could they just do that instead? That sounded nice.

But, noooo. Just like last time, people did ~~presumably~~ actually show up, so Rosa sighed and supposed she did still have to, ugh, teach.

Hopefully, though, like last time, it would actually be...surprisingly not that bad.

"Alright," she said, reluctantly abandoning all hopes for a nice weekly personal session on the beach that she was still going to get paid for, "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, then you 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 even is yoga? I could go into some long, detailed lecture like some people might," *cough*Blackstone*cough*, "but I'm not going to. If you're really interested in the history and philosophy and all that crap, there's a library and the internet around here so you've got resources aplenty. In this class, 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 her yoga!, "as well as stretch and tone and strengthen your body. There's a whole...wellness of mind and body equilibrium hippy-dippy bullshit, but that's not my style, so..."

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

"But, anyway," she said. "We're going to just get started 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. It worked great last year. Don't fuck it up this year. Just follow me through the basic forms for today and then we'll see how you do, and then you'll just work on them from there. That's it.

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

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Like a granola-crunching, chakra-enlightening hippy.

Nick Cutter

Gladiolus Amicitia

Dwight Hendrickson

Nell Ingram

Nancy Wheeler

Jonathan Sims

The lecture itself is short and...well, not exactly sweet, but precise, maybe?

Rosa will also be going through and demonstrating the poses themselves, too, working through them slowly and describing the finer points and just assumes you're all following along. If you aren't, 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 just for practicing them, 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!

Cutter had never done yoga before and now that he didn't have a lot of strength after ...everything, he found it rather difficult to maintain even the basic poses.

He was also finding it especially difficult with his hands but he was attempting to at least try what poses he could.

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Jon saw Cutter, and gave him a sympathetic wince over the hand braces. His own burned hand wasn't much of a problem with broad moves like this, but he remembered when it had first been injured.

Cutter noticed Jon looking over, he felt a little self conscious but it was something he knew he had to work with, “I guess you don’t realise how much you actually need your hands til you can’t use them,” he said softly.

Jon cleared his throat awkwardly. "Sorry, I...It's just...well, yes, I'm familiar." He held up his burned hand in demonstration. "Sorry."

It was Cutter’s turn to wince sympathetically now as he took in Jon’s hand, “oh, I’m …I’m sorry,” he said softly, “I …I have burns too,” he said a little awkwardly, as he tried not to think about all those H’s that had been pressed into his skin that were hidden from view.

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"They're..." Jon trailed off and nodded. "Well, you know, then. At least it barely hurts these days." Mostly because of the nerve damage.

"Can you...if there's a way I can help...If you, um. Need someone to help brace you or something." Look, he was a twig, but he'd do his best.

“It … it ...they …they’re better than they were …” Cutter bit his lip and nodded, shifting awkwardly as he tried not to think back to that day and fell silent, he couldn’t quite bring himself to talk about them, he stared down at his hands, “I …” asking for help was still something he was getting used to but well he had told James that he was going to try with the workshops, “I would like the help,” he finally said, taking a deep breath, “thank you,”

Gladio probably wouldn't outwardly admit it to anyone, but he'd been really looking forward to this class, and even more so after Tuesday. The pendulum was swung hard to the other side again, and he was really feeling like he could use something like this to clear his head a little, and maybe think back to that last school trip where he'd actually given this yoga thing a try on a whim because it would be funny and realized that he actually really liked it.

A little wobbly on the poses that required balance, but, of course, the Warrior one was probably his favorite.

Nell was here in her skirty pants, of course, and she smiled at Gladio. "Little different from my Tuesday training, hmmm?" SHe hadn't done yoga before, but the various tai chi and other forms she'd learned helped a lot with this.

Well...having Nell in the class was going to make it a whole lot harder for Gladio to clear his head of what happened earlier that week. Sure, at the time, they pushed past it and got back to focusing at the task at hand, but since then, it just kept bubbling back up in his mind and making him feel like something had just been lodged in between his ribs.

But he did always did like a challenge, right? It was fine. And maybe something he really should keep in mind, anyway.

He gave her a soft smile back.

"Definitely a change of pace," he agreed. "But that's good. I was just telling Stark about the importance of variety. This is the kinda thing to help make all that other stuff easier."

She nodded. "I haven't done this, but I looked it up when I saw it was being offered and I thought it would be fun and maybe add some flexibility into my working out." Not that she wasn't pretty flexible to begin with, but yoga could be helpful in lots of ways.

Her long tunic and skirty-pants got in the way a bit, as they did on Tuesdays, but she was pretty good at working around them. Would she ever wear something more form-fitting? Well, you never knew. Maybe someone would introduce her to sweatpants one day.

It was nice being here with Gladio, even if being around him sometimes made her feel a little funny. It was a good funny, don't get her wrong, just, well... different.

"Have you done yoga before?" she asked.

Somewhere on the island, surrounded by her ever-growing mountain of spandex and lycra, Summer Smith sighed and schook her head.

Sweatpants? Guuuuurrrrllll....

But here, on the beach in yoga class, Gladio was giving a small thoughtful hum and a nod. "Back when the school took that trip to Indonesia," he said. "They offered it at the resort, so I thought I'd give it a try. Turns out," he grinned a little more; it was a little easier. If there was anything lingering about Tuesday for her, it didn't seem to be showing in her mood at all, so that was good, "I'm kind of a fan."

Not to say the panic wouldn't creep back in again at some point. Gladio was the only man Nell had actually laid hands on while sparring, so take that for a compliment.

"I think I'm becoming a fan as well," Nell said with a smile.

So this was a class that was going to be interesting.... for a number of reasons. Mainly the fact that someone with a body often described as "built like a refrigerator" would have a bit of trouble bending into some of these even basic poses. But Dwight was giving it his best.

Jon had done this before, not that he'd ever kept up with it, but he mostly managed to at least get in an approximation of the poses. He wasn't the most flexible, and sometimes his worm wounds acted up unpredictably, but...well, it was passable.

Or don't. Don't is definitely a good option. In fact, that would be much more yoga of you, and Rosa would know, she's the teacher.

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