I tried yoga for the first time this week. Here's how it happened:

I mentioned to my roommate that I needed to do a physical activity for my Health and Fitness class, so she suggested yoga. I reluctantly agreed. I had never done yoga before, but she had. After dinner she pulled out a DVD and put it in her computer. We turned off the fan and the lights.

Now this wasn’t an instructional video, this was a serious workout yoga video. They started out slow with a warm up and I was already having a hard time keeping up. When they stared doing harder workouts, it was all I could do to keep up and make sure I was in the right positions.

Thankfully, yoga incorporates breathing into their workouts, so I didn’t have to worry about knowing when to breath. They told you right in the video when to inhale and exhale. There were a couple moves I lost my balance on, but for the most part I was at least able to do the moves.

I learned that I’m not as flexible as I thought I was. When you bend from your waist and not your back, it changes the game. I used muscles I wouldn’t have regularly. At the end of the workout, we laid on the ground as a final cool down. I jokingly told my roommate it was my favorite pose. Overall, I was pleased with my workout. I think I will try it again in the future.