Yogga

When Leggings Home first opened at the mall, I was not planning on ever entering it for any reason. However, one day this all changed as I was prancing by with my dear friend Matt Liliedahl. We were minding our own business, discussing our opinions on scented candles, when I happened to glance into the store. What I saw stopped me where I stood. They had labeled the Yoga pants as Yogga pants. This newly opened store had put the word Yogga on their wall.

I’m sure many people who attend this school have noticed this error, and it has since been corrected, but I was just thinking about Yoga and remembered that experience and thought I might as well share it.

The reason I happened to be thinking about Yoga was because today was the first day that my A block (which is yoga) did actual yoga. Ms.Hutchinson put on a video and we followed along for the whole class. This would be business as usual, except the video brought back my memories of yoga from last year. Last year I had a really awesome term 3 yoga class. It had Hannah Loomis (love of my life), two other people named Claire, and the queen herself, Joy Wilson. There were also some other really cool people and every class was a fun class.

At the end of the term we even convinced Ms.Hutch to let us play Just Dance for the last two aerobics days. But today was my first day of yoga without the yoga squad, and I realized how much I was going to miss them. They helped me through so much, they were the reason I made it so far through GD Challenge Game, and we had such a good time. Our favorite yoga video though was the one we did with Ashley Turner. We thought she was so funny, and the yoga we had to do with her was also pretty easy.

Ashley was a recurring theme throughout Term 3 Yoga B block. We found her Instagram account (which has fake followers) and her Facebook. We also sent her an email asking her to come to our school to talk. I have so many memories about Ashley, and when we got to the lions breathe part today, all I wanted to do was turn to Joy Wilson, but I couldn’t, because she’s not in my class anymore. I couldn’t even talk to her about it in this class because she’s not here anymore.

So I did the next best thing, I got my phone and took a video, which I promptly sent to Joy. It wasn’t the same, but I felt like I had to do something. It was a really blurry and rather terrible video, but it was suitable. I had to make sure Ms.Hutchinson didn’t catch me with it, since she would have taken my phone away.

She has her own website too. It’s “ashleyturner.org” and it has a ton of yoga stuff, but also a bunch of other random stuff. There’s a video about depression, but also one about her online dating strategy. I’m not sure why I put that information on here, but do with it what you will. It’s all a part of her blog. Honestly this lady baffles me, but she’s happy living her life this way so let’s just let her get on with it.

I can’t remember how we got in contact with her last year though. I think it must have been an email from her Facebook or Instagram because her website doesn’t provide a personal email. We were very determined I guess.

Some of the images on her website are terrifying though. But what’s more terrifying is Lions Breath. I can’t find a picture of her doing that, but it’s scary. I’m sure I look scary doing it too, but something about when she does it is extra scary.

I don’t know what I’m going to do without the yoga squad this term. There are a bunch of senior soccer boys in my class now, and the vibe the class has is not the same. It’s less fun. It’s also very disappointing that I have it A block, because I usually bring my breakfast to school and eat it during A block. I can’t do that when I’m “exercising” because then I would choke. And eating while doing yoga is just not something you want to do. So now I starve until break.