Yoga with Gabriella

In doing yoga throughout the semester, I was able to see that meditation is key when doing yoga. It is one of the key aspects in how we breathe and how it helps the body when we are in a relaxed state of mind. When we do yoga we usually begin when we work on breathing and becoming one with ourselves. It is an important aspect to think of when doing yoga. In yoga it presents a key important role when doing yoga. I find it to be one of the most important aspects in yoga because if you are not relaxed and in a meditative mindset you will not be able to fully do the yoga correctly. My impression of meditation is that it is important to see how it helps you and relaxes the mind and help it becomes a calming state of mind. I feel like keeping yourself calm during yoga is key and the way you feel after meditating and doing yoga is when you feel like your real self. 

I think that yoga has been defined as a word or action but in reality it has turned into so much more in the united states. Every culture has a different way of seeing yoga and what it accounts for and how it helps the body. Going to practices I am able to see in the united states that each instructor and teacher sees how yoga affects them and the way it has helped their life in some shape or form. American yoga I feel is more modernized then the yoga in India. It is interesting to see that going to yoga with different instructors and how each practice has a different way of looking at a culture. Going to practices have changed the way I see yoga and i’m seeing that each culture has a different definition of it. Everyone sees it differently but i think if you have the right head space when doing yoga it will give everyone hopefully the same results.

When I completed yoga with the video that was shown during class time, I felt like it was a good way for someone who does not do yoga often will help them learn the poses and the way someone should move while doing yoga. I felt like it was easy to understand to what the instructor wanted and the way he was speaking was calming and he did not rush anything or poses. He was able to explain why we do the poses and how it will help the body. He gave each pose a specific way it will help the body which was helpful to know how it affected each body part. It was easy to follow the video since he went slow, sometimes it was a little to slow since it was easy to predict what the next movement would have been. I felt like it was a chill vibe in the class since it was a video but still helpful to learn new poses about the hips and other body parts.