<p>I've been doing yoga in sessions held by an art teacher and the AP Gov't teacher at my high school for a while now and really enjoy it (so much that I'm going to start paying for courses once school ends... <em>sigh</em>). Given this, I figured taking yoga for P.E. credit at Cornell wouldn't be a bad idea. Looking on the website, though, I found it was talking about things like "basic postures, breathing techniques, and deep relaxation and chanting techniques." I can understand the basic postures and breathing bits. However, in my experience, I don't really experience any "deep relaxation" until the end of the session when we're in srivastra (however that may be spelled), and we've never done any chanting. (Seriously, chanting? What the heck?) Yoga at my school is really an intense workout. My question, then, is: Are these yoga classes the (in my opinion) boring, let's-all-just-meditate sessions as which yoga is often stereotyped, rather than the physically demanding, frankly exhausting workouts I'm used to? If so... can anyone promise me there will be some particularly good non-P.E. yoga going on?</p>
<p>i'm going to be doing yoga at cornell, for sure.</p>
<p>Just curious, do guys do yoga, is it mostly a girl thing?</p>
<p>Nope, tchaikovsky. Yoga is not solely girls' thing. Maybe it's just that girls more more ofter than guys take up this activity...</p>
<p>well, there are two schools of yoga. one is dynamic where you are constantly in motion and the other is where you hold difficult postures for 30+ seconds and do these "stereotypical" breathing techniques, meditation etc. </p>
<p>The truth is, yoga is not about rigorous exercise, and this "intense workout" stuff is becoming the American stereotype of yoga. The yoga you are referring to is more aerobics and im sure there is plenty of that at Cornell. I wont go into details about what real yoga is, but the purpose is internal harmony and not really muscle toning and that stuff. The end relaxing thing you do, shavasana, is actually one of the hardest yoga exercises...try letting no thoughts come into your head for 5 minutes - i can barely do it for 30 seconds.</p>
<p>Well, I'm a guy, as are at least three eighths of those who regularly come....</p>
<p>Comming from where Yoga was invented, I can pretty much say it ain't a girly thing tchail... . Brad Pitt did Yoga when he came here for White Water rafting, and I don't think he's a girl...</p>
<p>yoga classes are offered most days of the week and are free if you have a gym membership. I went to a bunch at the start of the cycling season to loosen up the back and legs, worked great!</p>
<p>Still, does anyone know how Cornell's P.E. yoga courses are? Is it 1337hax0r's yoga, either type, or is it American pseudo-yoga? Mine has focused more on the physical aspect than the mental one because it also serves as P.E. makeup (how I found out about it), but there's some work on it and I'm certainly willing to learn more. I was just worried that the class would be people thinking yoga's an easy way out of taking real gym and so be full of people who don't care and who don't try; in my experience, it's very difficult to learn anything when those around you refuse to, partially because the teachers tend to stop caring as well.</p>
<p>Ya I'm a guy and I like it</p>
<p>"you hold difficult postures for 30+ seconds and do these "stereotypical" breathing techniques, meditation etc."</p>
<p>The one I've done is sort of like this </p>
<p>"The end relaxing thing you do, shavasana, is actually one of the hardest yoga exercises...try letting no thoughts come into your head for 5 minutes"</p>
<p>This is also my favorite part lol</p>
<p>I havn't done it since I started reading Siddhartha, but now I want to even more hah</p>
<p>I wanted to do gymnastics but yoga sounds interesting!</p>
<p>Is there a place to do gymnastics? I used to do it when I was little, but quit in like 5th grade because gymnastics and being a kid (guy) who cares what people think about gymnasts don't combine well lol. But anyways, I was good and was on the actual team that toured around to other places to compete. I'd love to just go there (if there is a there) a couple times a week and just fool around doing floor stuff.</p>