Yoga: My Social Disruption
For my social disruption, I attended a yoga class to find out for myself why it attracted countless people worldwide. Yoga is a practice for health and relaxation which includes exercises in breath control, meditation, and a variety of body postures. I had never done yoga before and believed it to be overrated upon entering the yoga studio. I wanted to focus on a few major aspects of why yoga attracted countless people, which included; how easy is it fone with no experience to pick yoga up, how intense an average session is, and how well one’s body responds to yoga. I also wanted to know if I could compare it to one of the numerous ideas that V describes in V For Vendetta. Yoga, resembling any exercise, requires serious effort, breaking down the body to build a superior one
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When talking to Eve, V tells her “Anarchy wears two faces, both creator and destroyer. Thus destroyers topple empires make a canvas of clean rubble where creators can then build a better world.” (page 222). Yoga, similar to anarchy, both destroys and creates. Where anarchy destroys “empires” and creates “better worlds”, yoga destroys the body and creates a stronger body afterwards.
Yoga is designed for relaxation, yet there is quite a bit of rigorous exercise embedded into each session. Multiple “body postures” have a need for strength in serious areas of body control such as flexibility, balance, and core strength. Entering the class, I wondered how my body control would fare against the rest of the students with flexibility and balance holding the majority of my concerns. This led me to the question, how difficult would it be to participate with