Week 3 - This week was the beginning of senior project for Kenston and Chagrin Falls High Schools. Since Chagrin Yoga is located right in Chagrin, obviously, seven other students on their senior project joined me. Three were from Kenston and three from Chagrin. When they came all of the jobs got a lot easier. Example, the cleaning that would take me an hour to complete turned into ten minutes because there were eight people all working on a different job. Since there were so many of us for this week it was kind of hard for the managers to find something for every single one of us to always be doing. To fix that they made it required that we all take at least one class a day because some of the kids had been sitting and only observing each class. Also to fix this one of the girls from Chagrin came up with the idea of reading the various yoga books through out the store during a class time. This was so much better than observing the classes because going into the third week I had already observed some of the same classes close to twenty times. The books we read included 40 Days To Personal Revolution by Baron Baptiste, Journey Into Power also by Baron Baptiste, and an "encyclopedia" of yoga that addressed the spiritual side of practice. This week I started Journey Into Power. The book seemed more like a self help book in a way than really a depiction of yoga but was still interesting because of it's many chapters on mediation and the diet of a yogi. The chapter on food was particularly interesting because it included several lists of "hot" and "cold" food (the actual temperature of the food didn't define this). Basically "hot" food are foods that kind of make you feel heavy, like pizza. While "cold" foods are meant to fill you, not something like celery, but also not weigh you down, like an apple. The book also included several chapters on physically opening yourself that I found very interesting. Baptiste didn't preach being constantly open about what's going on your head like floodgates but rather let it come out in parts and you'll find yourself in a happier place. The rest of the book was self help that I kind of skimmed...
Week 4 - This week the owner of Chagrin Yoga, Darcy Providente, showed all eight of us a little bit more about the publicity side of owning a business. We went down into Chagrin with a stack of flyers that offered a free class for first time practicers. Once there we split up into groups of two and went around the local stores asking if we could put a few flyers on their checkout desk for customers to see. All but two stores accepted the offer and a few people working in the stores even said they would be using the flyers to come to a free class. It seems like a pretty simple form of advertising but it actually ended up helping a lot. Within the day two or three new people came with their flyer that they said they had picked it up in a store in Chagrin. Darcy saw positive results so the next day we went up to the strip malls on 306 and East Washington and did the same thing. The publicity aspects occurred in the afternoon we all still took a class in the morning. We had to chose between Power Vinyasa Yoga, Vinyasa Flow Yoga, or Slow Flow Yoga. Most of us chose Power Vinyasa. I've gotten more used to the heat of the room since the beginning but still find how hot it is in the room hard to work with. A few of us asked one of the instructors why they kept the room so warm at the end of one of the class. She told us that she was taught to instruct that way because it's meant to replicate the humidity of India, where yoga originated. It's also so hot because the purpose is to make you sweat so much that sweat is dripping off of every inch of your body because it flushed toxins from your body. Week 4 was fun yay!
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