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Yoga Week 8

This week’s yoga practice was led by Jenn Kretzer from The Yoga Hive. We practiced Shivananda yoga for over an hour which was very relaxing but also felt like a workout. Jen was very good at explaining how to do the poses and corrected us when needed. I did not realize it until we started the practice, but I have done Sivananda many times before. I just did not know it was called that. When I attended Rutgers University during my freshman year I joined a yoga club. The instructor always had us go through the same poses and we finished with three oms. It was nice knowing the yoga prior to the practice because I did not have to look back to my screen multiple times since I knew what I was doing. 

After researching this yoga I found that it is one of the only yoga practices that has not been modified from its original form. I find this very fascinating because everyone always feels the need to change things up nowadays to keep people interested. There is also a special feeling of getting to practice this yoga because it is so traditional. Here in the west, everything is turned into pop culture so we do not see deeply traditional things. I feel as if the more culture we know, the better grounded and diverse we are. 


It was nice to do the practice this week. It is hard to find the time to destress and take your mind off of things when you are stressed. With the election going on, daylight savings, and much more school-related stress, this yoga practice felt like it was well needed. I hope to make yoga and other physical activities a daily thing because it has so many positive effects on me, but prioritizing the time for it has been hard. Hopefully, with only five more weeks left of class, I will be able to organize my days to make time for these activities.

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