Top Five Reasons You Have to Stifle a Giggle in Yoga Class

Published September 24, 2007

1. Your instructor tells you to stick out your tongue and “pant shamelessly like a dog” in order to master the breath of fire.

2. The girl in front of you releases more than lower back tension as she rises from cobra to downward facing dog.

3. You are the only one in class incapable of standing on one foot. So while everyone else is finding their center, you find yourself falling flat on your sitting bones.

4. You rise up out of baby pose (where you sit back on your knees with your head to the ground) and see in the mirrored wall that the mat left a softball-sized red splotch on your forehead.

5. You’re laying on your back, arms spread wide and knees bent. You bring your left leg over to your right side and in addition to getting that great full-body stretch you accidentally stick your bare foot in the hand of the person next to you.

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