Mar 29 2007
Yoga
Tina Z gave me a free trial certificate from her yoga place. I had options of going for a week or getting an hour of private session. I opted for the 1 hr. The yoga place is a chain - this location is very small, perhaps only about 1,000 sq ft, a reception area where all the shoes were left on a mate, a small private room to the left and the main-studio. It runs by a Korean couple with heavy accent - don’t know if they’re husband/wife, but they’re a good looking pair. When I showed up for work today, the male instructor took me. All he did was evaluating me: flexibility (very), balance (so so: can’t stand on one leg for more than 10 seconds), stress (yes, I think too much. I’m capable of thinking? Lord that’s a news to me…) … then he pressed hard from head to toe, telling me which muscle is linked to liver, kidneys … roll on my stomach for good 5 minutes while my eyes were closed. All bout 40 minutes. Then sat next to me on the mate selling their packages: annual membership is about $1,300, with each additional class, adds a little … to $5,000 for a life time membership ($4,500 if you pay in one installment). Would I have gone if I knew it’s only 40 min of evaluation? Probably not. I’ve done yoga before at the gym, am pretty neutral on it. This time I thought I may pick it up for it might add little activity during long waiting period while trading. I didn’t join, for I don’t appreciate hard sell, not at all. Secondly, how could you meditate when you constantly have to struggle to understand what the instructor is saying? Third, for the same price, I could have joint the full fledged gym, with a lap pool. … Tina dear, what were you thinking?