Live Interaction

For my live interaction, I went to a yoga class at Gold's Gym taught by Erin Yost. It was power yoga, which is an intense workout of the body for a solid hour by doing positions and exercising at the same time. We always kept our heart rate up, there was two two-minute breaks throughout the whole hour class. In this class there were all ages groups of women going from sixteen to fifty. Erin taught certain positions before we started working out a certain part of our body. She also gave us a variety of choices to choose from so we could stay at our own level and not under or over work our body. However, we did end the class sitting quietly on our own mats, as she taught us how to breath correctly so we could absorb as much oxygen as our lungs could hold.

I'm really glad I decided to take a yoga class for my live interaction instead of doing an interview with a yogi. I loved the feeling I got after I left the class, it felt like I had given my body a good exercise that my body was asking for. This class was definitely not as easy as I thought; some of those forty year olds seemed to be in better shape than me (I think it's just cause they knew how to breathe correctly while exercising :] )! It was definitely challenging though, and I loved that! I think if I wanted to get a better view on yoga positions I probably shouldn't have picked a power yoga but maybe a flexibility yoga class instead. This class reminded me of jazzercise but with a yoga mix in it. Overall, I had a good time pretending to be a yogi. I also had a good laugh at how uncoordinated I was.

E. Yost. Power Yoga Class Director. 3 May 2010.