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"well maybe it is similar to laughing therapy. I went with my cousin to an event of once, it was a riot. Basically you make a fool of yourself by doing wierd things like going HAHAHAHA and you and the others looks so riduclous you cannot stop laughing. It is supposed to burn calories when one laughs. I like laughing yet I do not need to have an event o do that. Being around children and other people makes me laugh." Sarah said raising her hand. "yet laughing will make me hyper and delariously happy so if we do that it will be awesome" She also htought yoga had elements in it that made people look hilarious. Yet she did not mind the stretches, as long as they did not have to hum |
Laughter Yoga. Clement actually had no clue what so ever what laughter Yoga was. He hadn't really known what Yoga had been until he'd come last year. Even then he'd had to ask someone what it meant. Because he hadn't exactly understood the word. Luckily now he actually understood and could speak English better. So he didn't need any words explaining anymore. Maybe he could do with an explanation with what laughter Yoga was. He bit on his lip, thinking for a few moments. Then he raised his hand. He may as well have a go. It wouldn't hurt. "Maybe it's....funny Yoga?" Where you looked funny. Though some of the moves they did, he thought was funny. They did look awfully silly when they couldn't. But maybe laughter yoga was when you did it on purpose? He had no clue really. |
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Get away, germs. Leave. Ugh, where is Theo and his hand gel when she needed them? The question. Okay, then. What was a Laughter Yoga? Even the name sounded funny. No pun intended. But a guess wouldn't hurt right? Kat raised her hand. "My guess is that Laughter Yoga helps someone, you know, laugh even if the laughter is... fake." Uh, okay. It was a try, and it sounded way better than 'yoga you do while laughing'. Heh. |
Nigel was trying to ignore her sneezing. But it was so constant and really loud. But Nigel had to give her credit for continuing to talking even though it seemed that she had to sneeze every couple second. Laughing Yoga did sound pretty awesome. But it was not really since there was no humor in it. "Laughing yoga is done in groups and does not involve jokes or comedy." Nigel wised it did. That would make it awesome. But it is what it is. Though Nigel did begin to wonder why there where going to do laughing yoga instead of the the normal yoga they were used to doing. |
Laughter yoga? This sounded like it could be preeeetty boring. But what the hey, on with the-sneezing?! Elodie eyed people and placed a hand over her mouth to not catch any of the floaty floaty germs that had escaped and were going to threaten to poison the rest of them. HAND SANITATION, GUYS. HAND SANITATION WAS A MUST. SANITIZE EVERYTHING. "Yoga. In really weird positions." Elodie began, lowering her hand. "Like..so weird that it makes other people laugh at you because you look..." 'like a pelican beak or an orange peel.' "you look ridiculous." It was not the time for beaking or peeling right now. Meh. Still, the yoga sounded boring. Could they not just have a mass tickle fight? |
Laughter Yoga? YOGA? Oh yes. The professor was sneezing, she'd caught some illness. What was the best thing to do? Yoga ofcourse! And she had to take class. Come on why not combine yoga class with this. Whose gonna question. How convenient. The bad thing about yoga was, atleast to Amara, that it caused her head to ache more and more. Which wasn't very good considering the fact that it almost ached ALL the day. Who wants extra time? "BUT PROFESSA..! This is DADA class, isn't it?" she asked loudly, wanting to make somethings clear. "So WHY are we discussing yoga?" Good they were discussing. If they were going to do it.....UHH. So not good. |
Possibly, possibly....yea, it was possible that Professor Romanos had developed allergies but would you just hold it right there, was this 'allergy' contagious? Everyone else was sneezing. It wasn't going to turn into an epidemic now, was it? O.O .....Er. "Er...I have a potion for allergies, maa'm." Maybe she wanted some? Anyway, they were moving on despite the achoos galore. She didn't forget the yoga stunts they had during the previous terms, of course. It was just something that was hard to forget. But Laughter Yoga....that was definitely something she couldn't remember they had practiced before. But seemingly, the name spoke for itself so the Ravenclaw raised her hand up to answer. "Well, it must be a form of yoga that triggers laughter." |
There was no doubt that she was taking this all in, scribbling a few things here and there, making note of the more important things that the Professor was saying. All this was important stuff. You never know when you'll need to throw the next kid infront of you to avoid an attack and when that happened you also needed to be able to tell them what to do so they don't get themselves seriously hurt. Quill down once more, she paid extra attention again because well...just because. Isn't that what people did in classes? Not that she would know...yeah... OOoooooo, laughter yoga!! She'd heard of that before!! Her hand shot up. "It's a form of yoga that allows you to just laugh. It's done in groups and everyone laughs until eventually it becomes real laughing. It's real simple and it works too. I laugh all the time even when I'm not amused." It was usually reserved for special cases though...very special cases where idiots were too dumb to notice they were being insulted. |
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Laughter yoga? Jory had never heard of it before. But he raised his hand anyway. "It's a form of yoga where you and others laugh?'' he said. Maybe uncontrollably? And for what reason? People just sat there laughing? Jory found it quite disbelieving that people actually did that. |
She hoped they wouldn't be dealing with any actual dementors or boggarts today. No thank you. But she did think the laughter yoga could be helpful. She raised her hand and said, "I'm guessing laughter yoga is where you force yourself to laugh? Or maybe when you and your friends lay down in a circle and, I've seen this in a muggle movie before and it's sort of odd - but it looks like it works. Well you put your head on someone's stomach, then the next person puts theirs on yours...and everyone laughs and it bounces your head up...and it starts off as fake laughing but by the end you're real laughing. Is it something like that? Because I think I've read that even fake laughing can lighten your mood. It's healing." Wow, she'd said a lot. But, they were all things she'd wanted to say, and she was feeling a bit bubbly, so the words sort of just rushed out without thinking. Oh well she thought and waited to see what they would be doing. |
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... Wait...laughter yoga? She'd never heard of that before. Ronnie sat there, thinking deeply before raising her hand and taking a wild guess. "It sounds like yoga, but you do funny positions which causes laughter?" she guessed, cocking her head slightly. That sounded like a pretty good guess to her... |
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Granted, the name gave half of it away mostly, and most of the students got the laughter part down. There was always one or two that would question just why they were practicing these types of disciplines though. "I wouldn't teach something useless to you, Miss Kaul." she started off, the smile on her face faltering somewhat, yet still keeping most of it's encouraging warmth. Lowering her tissue, she turned her gaze to the rest of the class. "As a few of you mentioned, laughter yoga is a practice where you force, or trick in other words, yourself to laugh until it becomes real laughter. There's no fancy moves or strange stretches; just laughter. As ridiculous and unimportant as that may sound," She glanced to Amara momentarily, "I want you to open your minds a little. Finding yourselves against your worst fear or having the happiness drained from you, even the simple- ...ahem... the simples-ACHOO!" Oh come oooon. Right in the middle of her dramatic explanation!? "The simplest technique you may benefit from, even just the slightest, can be the difference between your life or..." Well, they got the idea. "Not every moment against a dark creature requires you to perform outstanding magic." Picking up another tissue, she continued. "Hopefully, you won't need to try this in real life, however, we'll be practicing it anyhow. Worse case scenario, you're facing a boggart or dementor, you're by yourself, and you can't come up with any positive emotions or funny thoughts. And excuse me for just a moment." She raised her tissue and turned her head just in time. ACHOO! ACHOO! Ahem. Sniffle. "Forcing laughter can be your back up plan. While it may not seem like the most effective strategy when faced with a boggart or dementor, you'll see in just a moment that the more you laugh, the easier it will be to have more positive thoughts. Much like Miss Dawnsel had mentioned." "So, if you have any questions, please ask them while we allllllllll stand up." Yup, all of you stand up. Up! Medea shifted until she was on her feet, rubbing her nose slightly. Going to have some serious hand washing business when she got back up to the castle. "We'll be doing just a feeeew yoga poses before we start. The first one, I want you to clasp your hands together and reeeeaaaach up to the sky. Go up on your tippy toes if you can, focus more on reaching to the sky, taking deep breaths...and then...stop thinking altogether." She was still keeping an eye out for those hands being raised specifically because they had a question, all the while demonstrating what she wanted them to do. http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/z...es/stretch.png |
Yoga. Meh. Ella wondered for a minute or two what Professor Romanos would do if they ever did an exercise with a boggart in class and hers turned into a yoga instructor wanting her to do the boat pose. WHAT? It was a seriously uncomfortable position, okay? The blonde was just not a pretzel. As for laughter yoga, well that didn't sound that bad. The blonde listened thoughtfully to her classmates thoughts on the subject before offering one of her own. "Laughter Yoga is a type of Yoga where you make yourself laugh and eventually the laughter becomes contagious and spreads throughout the group, producing real, genuine, belly-aching laughter." ... And then they were moving on and Ella listened carefully to Professor Romanos before standing up and stretching the way she'd instructed to. |
Times like this made her glad that she found it hard to take most things seriously. Just listen to the Professor, one needed to laugh when these things happened. People needed to start listening to her more, CLEARLY she spoke sense. At the Professor's instruction she hopped up and got to the stretching, her hands reach waaaay up and her on her toes. Yuuuuup. This stretch was doing her some good. She took the deep breaths as expected but what was she meant to do...next...? Oh right. Stop thinking. She could do that. Nothing to it. Easy as pie. Something she did all the time you know-- Crud she was still thinking....wait didn't that count as a thought too....??????? Not thinking, she was NOT thinking. Yes. That's what she was NOT doing, but 'cept she was still doing it!!!!! GAH :whaa: She flopped so her entire feet were on the ground and she held her hand up, just one, the other went down. "Professor, how do you go about, NOT thinking exactly?" This was HARD. |
Alice didn't venture a guess as to what laughter yoga was, seeing as she had no idea, but listened to Romanos' instructions carefully. Hands clasped, she stood and reached up to the sky, bouncing up on her toes and breathing deeply like she was supposed to be doing. How was she going to stop thinking completely, though? How was she meant to do that? The fifth year contemplated the professor's last direction and tried to follow through with not thinking altogether. "I don't know how to do that either, professor. How do you just stop your thoughts? Because now I can't stop thinking about, like, not thinking." It was like when people told you to not think about elephants, and then you thought only about elephants. This was difficult. Yoga was being rejected. |
Finally throws his ugly head into class Forcing Laughter, Ha! DANG IT! he was still thinking thoughts! |
Ezra did not think he knew what yoga was. Scratch that, he was one hundred percent sure he had no idea what yoga was. A muggle thing, maybe? Despite his status as half-blood, Ezra's knowledge of the muggle world wasn't all that extensive, and if yoga involved standing-up and seemingly stretching, maybe it was some sort of muggle sport. Of which he'd thought he knew plenty of - footbal!!!!!!! - but perhaps it was just a lesser known muggle sport. Maybe it was new. He reached up with his hands above his head and clasped them together. Then he stretched on his tip toes. This could be fun! |
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Yoga?... Sonea’s first thought was that she had heard it wrongly, because, well… Yoga was not something she had expected during this lesson. She had never done Yoga and only knew that it could be relaxing if you’re using it right. And another thing, Sonea had NEVER thought that laughing would be helping you when you were facing one of those creatures! ”Please, don’t let us do Yoga today” Whispered Sonea while she watched the professor, she was afraid that she would make a fool of herself while she tried Yoga, she was not very loan and she always made a fool of herself while she tried to be active. But… She was not lucky today, the professor asked everybody to stand up and to try it! She groaned while she stood up and tried to imitate the movement from the professor, but… She felt really awkward and looked all the time around her, watching the others and what they were doing but remembered that she needed to relax her mind, but THAT was something she couldn’t do, she tried it, but she was not able to stop her stream of thoughts! |
Forrest tried not to giggle at the name 'Laughter yoga'. He'd seen women practising yoga on television once, and it'd taken him about ten minutes to stop laughing then. And--alas!--who was he kidding? A soft giggle left his mouth as he rocked with suppressed laughters. There, he didn't even need a yoga--giggle--to start laughing. Deep breaths, Forrest. Deep breaths! Calming a liiiiittle down, he hoped the professor didn't see him and got up, dropping his notebook. He'd taken everything down until this moment, but he didn't think this yoga--another suppressed giggle--would require being written down. Clasping his hands together, he got on his tiptoes and reached his highest as the Professor instructed, trying to focus on the colour of sky and not to fall. |
SPOILER!!: Le prof So they were doing Yoga today? Interesting. He never did Yoga before. He was keen on learning about it. His sister did the yoga poses in this class and she liked it. They were going to learn about Laughter Yoga? He giggled at that. He never heard about it before. He heard the professor's instructions. He got up and stood on his tippy toes and reached for the sky. It actually cracked his back a little bit. He took a deep breath and just focused on his breathing. He actually felt calm than he had in a while.... But he couldn't stop his thoughts. They just kept coming but he needed practice to close his mind. He even felt bad for the professor sneezing and sniffling the whole time. He wished he knew a spell to make her stop. |
Sarah was right, yet she went on listening. Then she followed her teacher and stretched. It felt good, yet Sarah did not understand the clearing of mind part. A moment not htinking for Sarah was a moment wasted. She decided to follow the teachers instruction and she closed her eyes and began to concentrate on her breath. IN an OUT. She felt herself tottering, she hoped she would not fall into the lake. She was scared she would as her eyes were closed |
Focusing on one thing, alright, she could do that. That was sorta easy. She figured she'd focus on her breathing like the Professor had suggested as opposed to candy like she'd wanted because her mind had a way of wandering off and going into a frenzy as it related to the sugary stuff. Okay. Breathing. She clasped her hands once more and reached up toward the sky. Going up on tippy toes she focused everything on her breathing. Juuuuust the breathing... Nothing more... ... ....... |
SPOILER!!: this would be the professor Laughing yoga? Professor say WHAT? From what Tanner understood it was basically forcing yourself to laugh, and then apparently real laughter happened? Yeah, she still had no idea what this lesson was truly about, nor did she think she would ever. But hey. Yoga. Actually, to be honest, she was kind of glad. The eleven year old was kind of scared to learn about the dark arts, much less defend against them. It seemed like all this class had to do was.... stand? Well she had been doing that since she was a wee little tot. Maybe this lesson wouldn't be so difficult. The second part was going to be harder. Stop thinking? But what if she stopped thinking and somehow forgot to breathe or something? Yes, she knew it was impossible, but still. BREATHING. Stand up. Check. Go on tippy toes. Check. If this involved not wobbling, Tanner would've failed in an instant. Reeeeeach towards the sky. Check. She felt so tall like this. This was starting to remind her of a therapy session with her stupid caseworker. Although, he never made her do yoga. Just stop thinking, which always made her nervous. okay, Tanner thought. clear your mind. You won't stop breathing. It's automatic. .......... .......... ........ Now to make sure that she didn't get too relaxed and accidentally fell asleep. Or worse, into the lake. |
Nigel was trying not to think of anything. But that was much easier said then done. But laughing did sound like something easy to do. Okay, big breath. Nigel followed Romanos instructions and started to raise his arms over his head and stand on his tipy toes. When he finished doing this. He clasped his hand and tried to think of nothing. But was failing miserably. He was a Ravenclaw and thinking was what we do. Then he thought about something funny he read last night and started laughing. Hopefully she would think we was doing that laughing yoga thing. |
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