Okay, so yoga is actually pretty good?

I've attended three or four yoga classes at the IMA at this point -- was signed up for one this morning but skipped that seeing as my entire body was resisting after spending the entire day on Saturday cooking and standing up. But now that I'm about a week (not exactly, but ignore ok?) away from the original class, and I have a class this evening, I want to observe my experience taking those classes.

It's so silly that this is the first time in my life that I'm taking yoga classes. They are awesome. They are an opportunity to take an hour or so off your day, just for your body, and do it in a social context. It's a chance to stretch all of one's various, barely-used muscles in a guided context, so that one is never needlessly straining them or risking injuring oneself. It's an opportunity to improve one's balance and flexibility under the watchful guidance of a teacher. And a chance to socialize with other similarly-minded people, who will maybe not talk to you, but being in the same room as other people who are interested in the same stuff as you are counts as socializing in my book, sooo do what you will with that information.

I wish I'd discovered this opportunity a month earlier, nay two years earlier, because I'd have had a lot more peace, physical fitness, and body confidence inside me. It's not like going to the yoga classes make one fit automatically, but they do make one's self more self-aware about the importance of being in good physical shape, if only to do the yoga poses successfully.

While I will probably not pay multiple-hundreds of dollars for yoga classes in a non-uni context, I will certainly make the most of my experience with attending UW courses for as long as it's absolutely possible. I'm eager and excited for the fall quarter to begin for these classes to restart once we're done in 4 weeks!