Tag: yoga

While trying to balance school and extracurricular activities, 80 percent of college students find themselves in stressful situations, according to a recent study by the Associated Press.

Adjunct professor and department associate Gloria Montebruno, a certified yoga instructor and Japanese professor, reminds her students something her first yoga teacher would say and resonates with her to this day, “It’s not about how flexible your body is, it’s about how flexible your mind is.”

While I greatly enjoyed your Campus Times article, I was quite disappointed that you did not inform your readers, the students, faculty, and staff of the University of La Verne, that they can take both yoga and pilates classes at the University!

Everyone in the room is held silent, captive, commanded when to move and when to breathe by their leader. Muscles strain, fighting against the unnatural, uncomfortable positions in which they must remain and limbs shake with sheer effort.

My first yoga experience was at my local Bally’s Total Fitness gym. I know that does not seem very “yogi-like,” but it was an experience that I will never forget.

In today’s world of fitness, old favorites are beginning to resurface with an entirely new spin.