Zhenya wasn't sure but she raised her hand and said, "Professor, could it be to keep our minds focused when our bodies might be doing something Physical? Although my initial thought was to help us relax, but I wasn't sure why we were relaxing. We need to keep our defence up!" she said.

Alyssa decided to add to what she had already answered, so she raised her hand again,"Professor I know that I've already answered but I also wanted to add that maybe you were trying to get us to learn to concentrate better? Like Keefer said, it was hard to keep our balance and try to think of the answers at the same time, but we managed to do it. I know that when it comes to casting spells, concentration is very important because we want to make sure that the spell we cast actually works."

As Professor Romanos announced that thre'd be no yoga today, Beezus wondered why. But she was too engrossed with drawing the Dueling Arena on one of her parchments that she did not have the leisure to think why. And also the very reason why she was late in doing the first activity which was stretching their backs. However, when she was finish though it still needed more detail, she stood up and webbed her fingers together, then she pulled her arms upwards and stretched her limbs as she breathed slowly.

And off to the first question. Hmmm... why exactly did they do yoga?

Before answering, Beezus followed the Professor's movement first, standing with feet apart, then placing over one outstretched arm over another and folding the latter.

She raised, well..tried to. But because of her set up, she couldn't. So she removed her tangled arms first and raised her hand properly and gave her answer, "Professor, I believe you made us do yoga last lesson to improve our concentration and flexibility.." Just that simple answer would do right? "Concentration, in the sense that we need to still focus on giving out answers to your questions amidst what we are doing. And flexibility where we were able to stretch out our bones and muscles much to their own extents." Those two were very important in working against the Dark Arts. Yeap, they were. After giving out her own idea, she resumed her stretching position.

Selina was thrilled that the first position she had to do was a simple cross of her arms over her shoulder. The redhead could do that. She stretched her arm out with the rest of class and grinned- easy. When Professor Romanos posed the first question she flapped her arm that was now crossed over her chest to get her attention, "Because we don't any form of physical education and exercise is important. That anf maybe we need to be in our bodies to do spells actively and well."

Autumn stood up and started stretching. Before she found out she was a witch she competed in gymnastics and was used to all this stretching! And she was very flexible.
She hadn't been there last lesson so she listened carefully.

Stretching wasn't too bad. It was much easier to do than yoga was anyway, or at least Vashti thought so. She continued doing what the professor did as she thought about how to answer the question. Why had they done yoga last lesson?

Vashti took a moment to pause in her stretching to raise her hand. "I suppose it could have been done to keep us alert and paying attention. Some might've dozed off or stopped paying attention if they weren't performing some kind of movement." Especially considering how dark the classroom had been. It was the perfect atmosphere for anyone to be tempted to start dozing off, especially if they hadn't slept well the night before.

Why, oh why, oh why did they have to exercise during this class?! Couldn't they just sit like flobberworms until it was time to get up and hex somebody into next Saturday? Now that'd be fun! Stretching? Not so much so. At least Sierra was in shape, though. Thank you, Quidditch.

She started stretching here and there, if nothing else than to avoid the push-ups. ...and then--there was a question! About exercising, nonetheless. BAHHHH. "Well, of course we need exercise to stay in shape," Sierra said, pausing in her stretching to raise her hand, "but I think it also has something to do with the fact that we'll be twisting and turning all sorts of ways during a duel. If your opponent somehow gets you down, or if you're forced to get into an odd position to dodge a spell, you need to be able to twist and turn your way back to a normal dueling position in order to cast properly. Either that, or you have to learn how to cast from that odd position."

...and then she went back to stretching.

Messer crossed his arms over his shoulder. The first position wasn't that hard. Its very simple actually. Then the Professor asked them the first question. Messer tried to raise his hand but its kinda difficult to do that with this position so he removed his tangled arm and raised his hand "Well, like Keefer already said that Yoga helps our balance and flexibility that will help us in a duel. But beside that I think Yoga is an excellent toning of the muscles." he said. "We need a strong muscles to do a duel, Professor." If their muscles were weak or flaccid they couldn't held their wand properly.

Silvia began stretching. She didn't really know why they did yoga last class, but she raised her hand anyway and guessed. "Maybe for exercise?" she said. "Maybe exercise and being in shape is important for dueling somehow." When she finished with this answer, she went back to stretching.

Lily was glad that there wouldn't be much yoga this class. She had found it somewhat distracting with everyone nearly falling and losing their balance. But she got up and started stretching because it sounded like they were going to be doing something physical, and she didn't want to need to return to the healer for something that could be prevented.

As the professor started class, there was a question to answer. Why had they done yoga in the last lesson. Lily thought for a while before raising her hand and answering. "I think we did yoga to get our brains working, and trying to multitask like you might need to do if you got into a fight." Lily wasn't exactly sure but it was better to guess than to not answer.

Ella raised her hand, agreeing with some of her classmates. "Professor, I also think it has to do with concentration. I mean when I was trying some of those yoga poses I had to really focus so I didn't fall over...I suppose you need the same focus when dueling."

Standing up and adopting the weird stretching poses things actually was easier this lesson. Or at least so far, since stretching your arms wasn't really rocket science.

When the question was asked, Amelia lowered one of her arms before immediately raising it again so that it could be seen that she was being proper before addressing the Professor.

"Maybe there are a few reasons. It's always good to get some exercise in general. But also this helps with balance and flexibility which is good for dueling and just dealing with Dark Magic and bad creatures in general." She knew that she'd want to be at her best if she was ever faced with a monster or something. "Oh, and it also kind of helps with focus and concentration because at first I had a harder time thinking of answers to questions, but later on it was a lot easier. And it can be really useful for fighting if you're able to think and act at the same time."

This all seemed rather good to her, practical. Unless of course she was putting too much stock into things and the real reason the Professor had them do this was because she was crazy.

Angelina began stretching when she realized other where as well. That may be a smart idea. She really hasn't done anything like this, so it's a new challenge for her see if she and concentrate and keep her balance.*

Even though she wasn't present for the first lesson of DADA she had a small idea of why they learned yoga last. Raising her hand she said, "Could it be to help you concentrate on your body more. Couldn't it also be were you do some of the potions like you could when dueling? So yoga could help you keep that better and be easier for you?

Moving to the next position LuLu smiled well kind of... these ones were easy and there was no blood rushing to her head! Um.. Maybe concentration but she really did not see how a weird position with your body would help?

''... well for general exercise I guess... and for flexibility for dueling, since you need to be ready,'' and so you won't cramp up?

Daichi stood up from the purple mat he had been seated when the class begun. He looked with his dark brown eyes to the front with an curious expression but then had to go against himself not to roll his eyes when they were going to do stretching...again. It seemed like a ritual in DADA this term.

But..as the good student he was ahem He too followed the instructions and tried to do the same excersize the Professor was doing while holding up one arm. "Professor? I think that, because we are in the Dueling Arena now" Yes, he knew what room this was..pretty good huh? "We will learn how to dodge spells if we can't come up with a spell quick enough in a duel or..when we are simply wandless." that would be horrible though...even for Daichi who was not so good at using magic.

"That or having inner peace with your mind and become more flexible..but that would be weird right?" he laughed.

Tay continued to stretch a little. She raised her hand, "We did yoga so that we can focus our mind on the questions you were asking and also so we can stretched and become more flexible, right?" She smiled.

Amethyst smiled as she saw that she was allowed to stretch. She bent over, like a rag doll, and slowly rolled back up letting each spinal column stack on top of each other.

She was disappointed she missed last class. They did yoga! She raised her hand, taking a shot at the answer. "Well, I wasn't here last class, but when I do yoga, I do if because I want to relax and connect with my inner self."

Annabelle got up and started stretching. She never realized how tense her muscles were. This was sort of relaxing. She was starting to really enjoy this as she bent down and stretched out her legs.

"Professor isn't doing some yoga poses help reduce stress?" Annabelle asked as she answered her question.

Justin got up and began to stretch his back and arms before sitting back down. Then raised his hands and said," Professor, yoga is good for teaching the body how to move correctly with proper body mechanics. It also keeps muscles lean and ready for action."

Ah, stretching that was fun.. Well, it was something every person doing physical activity, aka playing Quidditch needed to do. Kimalia did a little dance as she rose her arms up to answer, "Well, Stretching gets the blood flowing, making it easier to think more clearer in tight situations and of course not get ourselves twisted up."

Harvey got up and did the stretching while they were waiting for the rest of the class to appear.. he reached up stretching his arms high.. it felt good to stretch out his muscles as he did this.. he made a note to stretch a little more often.



Harvey then went onto the next stretching postion stretching his arms the way they were supposed to.. the rest of the class had given lots of answers so her decided to just listen and to write the answers down when the professor said them.. this felt soo good to stretch like this..

Cardigan slightly grinned as she stretched some more.Ahhhh.It felt soooo good to stretch.How relaxing it was!The bestway to exercise throughout the day!Besides Quidditch,that is.But streching could be done anywhere.She soon knew the answer to Professor Romano`s question."Professor,"she started after she raised her hand."Yoga is one of the many forms of relaxation.It keeps the blood flowing through your body which enables easier thinking and less agitation."There.That was most likely right.

Stretching her arms over her head, Sky thought about that for a second. "Yoga is supposed to help a person be more flexible, which would help in a duel. Also, it's supposed to make concentration easier." She continued stretching, hoping that had been the answer the professor was looking for.

First doing the stretch the proffesor showed them, Vlimia mused over the question. Well... Vlim took a break from stretching to put her hand up "I think we were doing yoga to practise discipline and inner peace. When we are defending ourselves, it is usually best not to get too worked up or the opponent will have an advantage. And also some spells require a lot of focus and discipline." She said. Not exactly the case while using unforgivables; then you had to be really worked up. Vlimia shivered just thinking about the Unforgivables. It brought her back to the dark, damp dungeons she learned the curses in. Days she would spend in there, sorrowfully causing pain to helpless little creatures. Each mouse she put to death, Vlimia had had a secret burial for. There were seven little graves in the backyard, each marked with a pebble.

Alex stretched, practicing some of the positions the class had worked on previously. She thought about the Professor's question and slowly raised her hand. "Professor, yoga can help us in several ways", Alex said. "It's good exercise to keep us fit and flexible, but yoga is also about breathing, focus and control. All of those things would be important if we had to defend ourselves."