My First Yoga Experience
This morning I decided I’d give yoga a try. I’ve been wanting to try it but was a little too timid to give it a shot. I sucked it up this morning and while it was a great workout, it was extremely embarrassing. So, where better than to talk about it than here.
To start, I show up a few minutes early, grab a mat and pick a place near a side wall where I can hide myself and sneak out if necessary. As I sit there I start to zone out and hear the instructors voice say to start in child’s position. Since I have no idea what that is I look around and quickly see I’m somehow at the front of the room and no one is near me (so it looks as though I’m the instructor). Great.
The instructor then decides to have everyone face a certain direction (me having my back to everyone so they can see me and I constantly have to turn around to see what the positions are cause I’ve never done this before, remember?). Double great.
As I start to figure out what I’m supposed to do, I realize that it is a great workout and kind of like it. Then, she says we need partners. But before we do, she needs to show what we’re going to do. So, why not pick me to demonstrate? Ok, sure pick the new guy. After she shows everyone what we’re going to do by bending me, she picks my partner for me…a little old lady (I had to sit on her!). Triple great.
I begin stretching the lady and she starts to make moans and “oh yeas” a little too loud for my liking. So as she is trying to stretch me, I’m so uncomfortable that I stiffen up like board.
I get through the rest of the session rather free of any attention and quickly depart. Overall, it was a good workout, I’ll likely do it again. But, you can count on my never chanting at the end. Namaste.
Oh, I almost forgot. I wore the absolute wrong clothing: board shorts and a loose t-shirt. I was flashing everyone.