Jeff Fisher: Yoga East Meets West

 For this weeks yoga class, I decided to take a 25 minute class that was focused around opening up the body to loosen muscles and prepare you to start your day. the instructor of this class was named Kassandra. Right away at the beginning of the class I felt very welcomed and relaxed. Kassandra's tone of voice was very passive and welcoming. The class as a whole was very enjoyable and easily to keep up with.     I would say this was definitely a beginners style class, the movements used were pretty straight forward and I had no issues performing any of the movements that were included. the pace of this class was slower and more relaxed than the class I took last week. I felt a lot more comfortable participating and keeping up with the flow of this class. along with that, Kassandra not only stated the name of the movements were doing, but also explained how to perform them and what things to focus on when doing the movements. I found this to be very helpful and I feel I got a lot mo

 This week I completed my very first yoga class! It was clear to me that I am quite inexperienced when it comes to yoga practice and the general physical applications used in western yoga. With that being said for my first class I decided to take it easy, I found a beginners yoga class that focused on building your core muscles and utilized generally basic techniques. The instructor of the class was Sadie Nardini.  Immediately following the start of the class, It was apparent to me that Sadie was very high energy. She seemed extremely happy to be instructing the class and motivated to help introduce beginners like myself to the practice of yoga.     The general tone of the class seemed pretty fast paced, It was hard for me to keep up for the first few minutes but eventually settled into the pace of the class and was able to keep up. When it comes to the overall intensity of the class, it was pretty intermediate but as the class progressed and my muscles began to fatigue it became more