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Bikram Yoga

This was my first real experience doing yoga . The physical environment was the class setting since Diane came to teach the class. The environment felt welcoming, she made it fell like a real yoga class even though it was being held in the classroom. The community felt welcoming since it was everyone in the class. I also felt comfortable because I wasn't the only one who had been doing a yoga class for the first time. While doing yoga I realized it was extremely different than I thought, the breathing exercises and the 26 poses were different than I thought. There were 26 poses in Bikram yoga that we completed over the two hour class. Some poses were harder than others but after the first few poses i found out balance was key. As long as you focused on breathing and balancing during the poses you would succeed in completing some of the poses. The poses focused on major parts of the body such as the hips and the spine. While doing the poses the yoga instructor would make sure we were stretching the hips and the spine, ensuring we got the full effect of yoga.When we got to the end of the class and she was saying comments I felt my mind completely relax and felt like I didn't have to worry about anything else in the world. I felt completely relaxed and did not worry about the next thing I had to do. After completing my first yoga class I felt completely different, and didn't realize yoga could have such a large effect on someone.

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