Thursday, January 28, 2010

Free Model

I have been consistently going to yoga twice a week since August. The other day, I was lamenting to friends that I haven't gone to yoga in so long. When we sat down and counted, I realized it was only 4 days.

We have started calling our yoga classes Foreigners at Four. I have been recruiting my friends to come, and now there is a consistent group of girls who go to the class. There are very few local friends who attend the yoga class at four o clock but there is one local English teacher who attends. She likes to practice her English while we practice yoga.

The other day, while we were doing some moves, the teacher thought it looked pretty good, so she asked us if she could take pictures. So she took pictures, and then, since she knows all our strengths and weakness, she went around asking each student to do the move they are good at. The teacher knows I do not have a lot of ab or arm strength, but for some reason I have really flexible arms and hips. That sounds weird, but it allows me to be able to sit "Indian style" (umm, do they call it Native American style?) and Lotus Pose. So the teacher asked me to pose doing some of the moves I am good at.

The yoga teacher asked the English teacher if she could pose, and she said, "I am not a free model." Oh, I guess was selling my abilities for too cheap. Next time, if you want to see me sit Native American style, you will have to buy me a boba drink.

2 comments:

me :) said...

Bethany, I will give you "bobo" drink when you show me how to do the "lotus" sitting, well, to top it off with a "lotus seed desert", a deal?

michelle said...

Now you'll have to ask her for a copy of the picture so you can post it. We're all curious now!