ACC Online Yoga Classes Introduction

Hi. I hope you're all doing well and that
you are sheltered in a good place that is

healthy for you, and around people, if you
are around anybody, that you're treating

each other lovingly and well.
With that said, yoga must go on!

And yes, this is the time we really do
need it, and you actually have the time

to really do it now. No excuses.
You've got lots of time on your hands.

And so, I am going to basically be
teaching you online. I thought about doing

a live online Zoom-type classes, but I
didn't know if everyone had the equipment

for that, so what I'm gonna do is make 12
one-hour videos, and that's the rest of

your course material. And do two a week...
we have about 6... we have 6-7 weeks left

in this semester. Two a week. And then
keep a log, so that way I'll know if

you're really doing it or not. So you
would, in the log, put the date, put the

number of the video because I'm gonna have
them numbered, and then a couple of

sentences about what we did in that video.
And then to just double-check to make sure

that you did do it, I'm gonna say a
magical code word in each video and I want

you to write that code word so I know you
actually at least listened to it, okay?

So today, the code word is namaste.
This intro is... the code word is namaste.

If I'm living in my heart and you're
living in your heart, then we're all

living in the same place. All right, now
the other thing... some of you did not take

the midterms, so I'm changing that up.
If you did take the midterm, ignore this.

But if you didn't, I'm changing it to
three poses that you will describe with

like a short paragraph of each. One,
a standing pose with two legs straight.

One, a standing pose with one leg bent,
one leg straight. And one, any other kind

of pose. It could be forward bends,
inversions... those are handstands and

shoulder stands and plows, twists,
sitting poses. So, three poses.

And I'm gonna be sending all of this
to you, all these instructions... you don't

have to write them down right now, but all
of it through your email. So please,

please, please do check your ACC email and
if you don't ever check it, that account,

then please email me either at ACC or at
the other address. I'll put it all in the

email. Well, you wont get it. I have
another email that you can send it at.

It's on your syllabus. Okay. And if you
can just email me another email, that might

work better for you so I make sure that
you get the information. I plan on putting

all the videos on some sort of Dropbox
or maybe Google Docs. We'll see.

And then giving you that URL so that you
could just access it right then, and

I'll just keep adding to it as I do these
videos in the next month or so.

Okay? So if you have any questions, do
email me. I do encourage you to activate

your ACC email. That's the easiest.
I don't use a lot with Blackboard.

I just use it to send the emails.
So with that said, I wanna encourage

you to use this time in a peaceful way to
do a lot of pranayama, a lot of breathing,

and keep yourselves healthy and happy
and do those things that maybe you've

been putting off. Right. Maybe you wanna
learn guitar or you wanted to read a

specific book that you knew would take
a lot of time. Do that now.

This is the time for us all to regroup and
realize that we're all in the same place.

Namaste.