so i practice Bikram yoga... it's waaaay hot and humid in the room, and each class has the same set of 26 postures in the same order, each done 2x, regardless of where in the world you take the class. i am just getting over a nasty cold/bug/sinus thing, and i thought i would be ok to make it through the whole 90 minutes. i figured the heat would clear my sinuses.
well, i did ok. not great, and i suppose i could have done worse, but i wasn't too happy with how the first half of class went. i came home and told dan about this, and he suggested i should have left the room. i told him it's really frowned upon to leave the class, so i stuck it out, but i mentioned that tonight one girl did leave, for a little bit... as she walked towards the door, the teacher, who had a microphone on, asked her where she was going. she was close enough to the microphone that we could all hear her response-- "i have to go throw up". and... she left the studio. a few moments later, she came back and finished the class.
immediately after she left, the instructor announced that if anyone else needed to throw up, there was no need to leave the room-- feel free to use a trash bucked in the room-- the buckets otherwise designed for Kleenex, might i add.
so i implore you, readers, what is the strangest part about this story? leaving to puke and coming back to finish the class, or the suggestion that someone might puke in the studio classroom and keep going?
discuss.
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what?! i find the suggestion to puke IN THE ROOM the strangest (and grossest) part of this. talk about distracting.
I agree...puking in the room could make others proceed to have to puke in the room...causing an awful chain of events.
As a side note..after I read "posted as a request of dan" I thought for a minute it was Dan that did the Birkam yoga ; )
haha no, i just told him this story when i got home and he thought it was too funny to keep just between us and suggested i blog it :)
why? is it implausible that I would wear those little yoga shorts?
i think that strangest thing about this post is that you would want to do yoga in a sweltering room.
just kidding! granted, i am not familiar with yoga etiquette, but both of those scenarios are ridiculous. 1) if it causes you to throw up, don't do it. and 2) vommit in the room?! the smell... in that hot room?!
that's unreal, shana!
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