This was the 'normal' yoga session. No vibration yoga, no intestine cleansing stuff... But the 'warm up' still consists of whacking your belly, counting to 10 and, if you're me, trying to not laugh out loud.
The middle section wasn't so bad. It was stretching. just that these people believe in holding the pose for a minimum of 10 minutes, which means you only stretch 2 muscles. And it also means that I now understand the need for yoga pants (they don't have zippers or buttons that you might end up sitting/laying on).
At one point she challenged us to do the 'washing machine'. You stand with your feet together and twist your hips. This goes on for about 5 minutes, after which you will probably feel a few things. Instructor person said that it's normal to feel a bit of pain in your kidney's, stomach or liver.
So after this deal you get on the floor and are basically supposed to ram a piece of wood into the area where you felt pain and massage it! (Aehm, yeah... This makes sense...)
So I went along with it, but basically was going for a snooze....
Suddenly the iinstructor was just about on top of me and proceeded to show me what she meant. She took the wood thing and very 'gently' rammed it into my liver until it just about touched the ground (with the problem that there was still a bit of me in between the ground and the wood)
And then she asked how this felt!!!! I almost laughed out loud. I couldn't quite breathe right anymore, since half my insides had shifted and I wanted her OFF ME!!
So I just said 'slightly painful'. She asked 'good eh??'
ARE YOU CRAZY LADY??? You're pretty much turning my liver into ground meat and are sitting on top of me....
But I have learned my lesson...
'Sure.. Sort of'
She finally let go and moved on...
I breathed again and continued to hold on to the laughter insider of me.
Oh. My. Goodness.
Nothing much else to say about this...
Except: Yoga instructors should use breath mints more frequently.
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