As I watched, "A Yoga Interview With Maggie" by coach Anita Stone, I learned the five wheels of yoga that she teaches her class. She interviewed a new yogi, Maggie, that came into her class. Maggie had just broken her collar bone a couple years back and she noticed that she didn't have as much range of motion in her weak shoulder, so she decided to start yoga. She went to Anita's class on the fourth month of her doing yoga, and discovered that she had not been keeping up with all five wheels of yoga. According to Anita, the five wheels of yoga are, "Cardio, diet and nutrition, enduranace training, flexibility, and strength" (2:28/6:31). Anita just explained that you couldn't skip or miss one of the wheels because all of yoga builds on top of each other, you have to have all five parts in order to succeed. She explained to Maggie that we don't just do yoga to live to be a 105, but so that while we're alive we can walk, breathe easy, and feel fit.
On most yoga articles I've read, it's been about how to reach a certain goal whether it was to get flexible, lose weight, or to just live healthier. This video though was about how you should do yoga so that you can enjoy life at the present, and that it's not just about the future. From seeing these two people on the video, they both looked in shape, and Maggie has only done yoga for four months. Anita though looked very comfortable in her skin, and that makes me want to know that I will one day be comfortable in old skin. This video also worries me because it seems like there are a lot of different views on yoga out there, and you don't really know which route you should follow. For example this video didn't mention anything about being spiritual or how it helps connect you to your soul like most articles do, so I'm thinking this is more of the aerobic side of yoga.
"Yoga Interview." 20 February 2008. Online Video Clip. Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2265DQRwbzg
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Nice job! 50/50
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