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Final Journal Write - Up

I have Finally come to end of this Journey with Professor Laurie Greene, and in I have learnt an incalculable number of things I never knew before starting this class. This class Yoga: East meets West,  has explained and showed me a lot about Human spirituality and Human physiology, also a lot about me as a human being every single week we jumped through a new Hurdle or a new Yogi instructor, there was always something interesting or different to learn, and to be truthful, is one of the main reasons I shall be sticking with yoga as a practice and form of exercise, for a long time. In this blog, I shall be highlighting my journey from the beginning of this class to the end.  My first foray into Yoga was while I was away at my former school, the University of Pittsburgh, I was going through a lot of stress being in a new  surrounding ( I had never been away from home before ), so I started watching Yoga videos as a sort of way to learn new stretches but also as a form of meditation, but
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Kumare

 On November 10th, 2020 In class, we watched a documentary called "Kumare" about a man of Indian Descent who in order to let people understand, that they didn't need a Yogi in order to find peace and happiness, but only themselves. The man whose name was Vikram Gandhi was Lapsed Hindu who disguised himself as a self proclaimed "Yogi" to understand the driving force behind peoples fascination in Eastern philosophies.  Through the documentary, I was able to understand that people need sometimes outside help to understnd whats going on Inside. every dingle person in the video who came to Kumare, was lost, though they had the answers to their problems inside them, They couldn't have realized this without meeting The fake Yogi Kumare.
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Ashtangar Yoga

 On Thursday October 15,     We got to meet an Ashtangar Yoga practitioner, He was fantastic to work with, but quite hard to work through the Ashtangar poses compared to Iyengar, they seemed quite hard positions to get into, the poses seemed like poses meant for intermediates, instead of beginners. The yogi teacher was quite quick with his order, and it made it hard for me to get settled into one pose before the next one was ordered, otherwise it was quite an interesting work out, I enjoyed it a lot, and it showed me how far I needed to go as a Yga practitioner. 
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Journal 4 - Amita Bhagat

 On Tuesday October 14th,    I got to meet a true student and practitioner of Iyengar Yoga. the class started at about 10:30 in the morning. She was very calm with the students, and tried each moves slowly, especially since she knew most of us were beginners, every posture and position got easier as time went on, I was so focused on the class, that I did not even notice how much time had passed before the class ended. she gave us a brief history of Iyengar Yoga, and why she enjoyed it, and to be honest it showed, in the way she taught. I Loved the class and I hope to take her class again, one day. Yoga is viewed byn the majority of practitioners a s a healing practic
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Journal 3

     Today I watched a YouTube video by a Yoga practitioner called " Strength Side" his name is Josh. To be honest I loved learning from him. His voice was calming he took his time on every position so his audience could get into it, he was also very assuring. I had a niggling back pain at the beginning of the exercise but by the time the video had ended I felt both loose and pain free. I recommend anyone to check him out he has beginner videos all the way to intermediate, and I definitely will use him again. The Instructors technique of working with breath, breathing before each pose was instrumental for me because I realized the less I struggled with my breath and actually tried to clear my mind, the easier it became to let myself stay in the pose, I actually loved, the impact of his class on my techniques, his videos taught me to work smarter not harder, and I think this should go for all beginner Yoga practitioners when learning.
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Journal 2

 After watching this movie, The main character reminded me of Dana Scully the female protagonist of the show X-Files. I felt this in the aspect that after all evidence of aliens were shown to her and every single monster she encountered, she still didn't agree that aliens existed, just the same with Nick he still did not see the benefits of Yoga after practicing it for so long., He finally came around to the truth of it in the end, So that was good.      I really enjoyed seeing the different perspectives each Yogi because though each all had their own ways of practicing yoga, they still were aiming for the same thing. something important that one learns when practicing yoga is malleability, and flexibility ( they both go hand in hand), i think this was something that I learned from the movie, and that isn that essentially theres not only one end goal with Yoga. It has its spiritual purposes, It also has its physical benefits and you can use Yoga to reach whatever goal you want to b
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My First Day of Yoga - Journal 1

 Day 1   My first day truly giving my all into Yoga was interesting. I had done Yoga many times before but only for stretching, So when I searched up "Hot Yoga Intermediate" I was in for a ride.......... I was anxious to see if my body could really get into this different positions or not, and I was right. I couldn't breathe in these positions, I felt ligaments and muscles in my body, that I didn't even know I had. I was in pain for the rest of the day, and cursed how sour I was. but I thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of it, the positions i was naturally able to get into gave me some sort of Euphoric feeling being able to mold myself into it, I am going to keep practicing yoga to see how far I can go in this endeavor, hopefully quite far, I truly believe the sky is the limit with this.    
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