Windlepoones's Journal, 23 Oct 16

While at my gym class last Thursday I met a chap extolling the virtues of yoga, now that’s a subject I know nothing about. So when he said why not come along this Sunday to a free class at the community hall. I thought I’ll try anything once.

I skipped breakfast and just set myself up for the day with my version of a bullet proof coffee. It was an early start 08:45, well an early start for me after all it was Sunday. The class was quiet well attended there where 20 attendees. I was surprised to see the instructor was the chap who invited me to join the class.

Floor mats had been neatly laid out with enough spacing to avoid colliding with ones neighbour. The class began by adopting a cross legged position hands pointing skyward and exclaiming a long drawn out, “Ohmmm” some 20 times. I looked over at the instructor, who had his eyes open, but had rolled them to the back of his head, so I could only see the whites of his eyes. I remember thinking, was this meditation or the start of a séance.

The class continued with about 30 minutes of stretching exercises, but the last 30 mins got a bit surreal for me. I’m not sure if it was at the point where we adopted the frog on a lily pad posture, poked our tongues out and then were asked to shout “Yah!” as loud as we could about 10 times or was it the swinging our arms like an ape, then raising our arms to the heavens and laughing manically. Perhaps it was the exercise where we covered our eyes with three fingers while putting our thumbs in our ears and humming loudly for a couple of minutes.

At the end of the session I was told my Chi was now focused and my Karma and Chakra had been enhanced. I thanked the instructor and waved goodbye to the class. I thought although it was nice to be invited, perhaps I should try Tai Chi next.

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