My 1st Yoga Class

My 1st Yoga Class

It was winter 2005, my dad realized it was time for him to get in shape and why not help his family get in shape also. He convinced us to commit to a workout plan after many failed attempts. Since the days when my younger sister and I ran cross country in high school, my father hadn't ran or exercised regularly and neither had we. We had all picked up quite a bit of weight. We started with a much needed and appreciated family membership to the Boll Family YMCA.

We were all excited to have a membership to the new Boll YMCA. I enjoyed the YMCA, commuting daily from Southfield to downtown Detroit. I finally decided to change hairstyles and didn't want to invest in anything that would take a lot of time and energy to do. Especially, after "sweating it out" at the gym.

Since, I still wanted to work out, I decided to try yoga. I assumed yoga wouldn't be as intense, certainly not enough to cause sweating. I was told by a tai chi instructor to "try to relax." He forgot to mention that it was actually a challenging sweat-inducing workout. 

As I sat cross-legged on a yoga mat, various thoughts were going through my head, "is this the same as pilates?", "I hope I don't sweat and will be relaxed afterwards", "what kind of music is this?", "what if I'm not that flexible", etc. I learned that the tai chi instructor was right, I was very relaxed afterwards. I found I did not sweat very much after my first yoga class and concluded I had finally found a workout which allowed me to keep my hair and body in shape. I attended several Intro to Yoga and Yoga Basics courses until July 2006.