MCC students achieve inner peace with yoga
Cassie DeSalvo
MCC provides multiple physical education classes for students to get involved in, but yoga is one of the most relaxing and beneficial. Students taking yoga at MCC exercise not only their bodies, but their minds as well.
“I have Yoga at 7:00 a.m. and I love it, when I wake up and go to school I’m usually tired but when I have Yoga I feel energized and awake for the rest of the day.” said MCC student Brittany Blackwell.
Many people think of yoga as just stretching and meditation, but in realty, yoga exercises the mind and body with the practice of physical posture and poses.
Yoga classes benefit students at MCC because it gives them a chance to get a well rounded work out and be able to relax at the same time.
Yoga has been used for centuries, just a practice for some, but for others it is more of a life style.
The benefits of yoga are amazing, Blackwell said.
“I think more people should get into Yoga, it’s not just stretching it really changes your body and they way you carry yourself. My posture is so much better than it used to be now that I work at it in Yoga,” she added.
Susan Javie, a yoga instructor at MCC, opens her class every morning with a peaceful introduction that lets students relax and analyze their bodies so they can focus on their discomforts.
Then she continues her class by targeting the body’s main areas and twisting your body into what may seem like a pretzel.
“Before I got into Yoga I was very inflexible but now that I take Yoga twice a week it’s like I’m Gumby and it’s awesome.” said Rafael Munguia, a student at MCC.
Although many people say Yoga is just about twisting the students into pretzels and meditating, its not, in reality it’s so much more.
So when considering how to get a weekly workout or how to have a daily stress free hour, consider trying a new twist into a new direction towards health with yoga.
