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Yoga Week 2

This week I took a longer class which was an hour long. I found it on youtube by searching an hour long yoga class because most seem to be 15 to 30 minutes long. This class was called “Your Breath Of Life Yoga” which was done at British Columbia, Canada. The channel was called Boho Beautiful and the instructor's name was Juliana Spicoluk. It was a very peaceful and relaxing yoga class. It did not feel like a workout at all, instead it felt like a deep stretch. The poses were not hard, but since we had to hold each pose for a good amount of time it was also not easy. It was a nice class after a long week of work and classwork.


What makes a space sacred to me is feeling safe, comfortable and relaxed. When you walk into a space that makes you feel this way you instantly feel good which would make it feel like a sacred space to me. In the video the place is a slow relaxing toon in the background. It is not a song, it is like a musical melody which brought peace and calmness to me. The location of the video is very airy, bright, minimalist and relaxing with the crystals and incense. I like how there were people in the background doing the yoga class because I could see multiple examples of the poses. 


Everything in the video made the yoga experience very pleasant and soothing. I enjoyed how the instructor had a calm tone, but used a lot of words in order to explain what pose to go into next. I took this class after work so I was tired from my 8 hour shift so I was trying to focus mainly on the class. This week was easier than last week’s because I do not have as much work to do, but I still could not put all of my focus on the class especially because it was twice as long. Now people are always busy trying to squeeze so many things into their day which is probably why yoga classes have turned into 15 minutes. I wonder how people could focus their energy fully on yoga a few years ago when yoga was normally over 2 hours long. 


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