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Defense Against the Dark Arts Lesson 1 - NEAR THE LAKE
It was a pleasant day outside despite the slow dropping temperatures of the upcoming season. The mid-day sun was shining high and bright while the breeze was lightly blowing, making the day too good to ignore. The lake sparkled in the background and the merry songs of the birds as they flew from tree to tree gave the area both a tranquil atmosphere and well needed change of view. Purple mats were lined up in rows as they usual were in the dueling arena, though perhaps one could notice the absence of the short desks if they'd attended a lesson before. Professor Romanos was seated upon her own burgundy colored mat, smile as clear as day on her face as she waited for the students to show. Hopefully they weren't too confused on where to go. She did put up a sign both on the classroom and arena doors instructing them to head down to the grounds near the lake.
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Text Cut: Professor!
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Originally Posted by Roselyn
Goodness, they sure knew their yoga. Somewhat.
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.
Laughing yoga? How do you force laughter?
And did the Professor need some more tissues or...?
... Anyways... it was time to actually do the yoga move. Alec stood up as carefully as he could, smiling over at Fro as he did so. She was okay with this, yeah? It was only standing and reaching for the stars stretching up as far as they could. For her sake, he really hoped he didn't end up wobbling and falling on her. That would be awkward, to say the least.
The boy turned back to the front and clasped his hands before reaching up towards the sky... and the stars that were currently hidden away... as if he was reaching for his star...
Nope, this was not the way to clear his mind of all thoughts. He shook his head before trying again, this time closing his eyes as he did so. Slowly, very very slowly, the boy started standing up on his tiptoes, trying not to think about the idea of falling over. That was probably the number one way to end up falling over. By actually thinking about falling over.
And this meant... that he shouldn't think at all... nope... death breaths...
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Was he doing it? Was this the stretching thing the Professor was talking about?
Haruka stood up as the Professor instructed. She scooted forward as much as possible without bumping into the person in front of her, wanting to get as far away from the lake as she could in her current position. Now that that was settled, Haruka did the yoga pose. She laced her hands together, palms up, and stretched her arms up as much as she could. Then she stretched the rest of her body while getting up on her tiptoes.
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Ronnie listened as the professor spoke and decided to write a few notes in her notebook. What she was saying was important, Ronnie would probably need to keep this information. She fished through her book bag and pulled out her notebook and flipped it open to the first empty page and jotted down a few notes:
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DADA - Lesson One Notes -Laughter Yoga: A practice where you force, (or trick) yourself to laugh until it becomes real laughter.
-No moving or stretching, just laughter.
Okay. Now that everything important was in her notebook, she glanced back up at the teacher and closed her notebook, setting it beside her. Oh, guess it was time to stand up! She slowly stood up along with the rest of the class and listened to the professor's next instructions.
She clasped her hands together and slowly stretched them up as high as they could go, standing on her tippy toes as she did. Next, she began to clear her mind of everything, taking deep breaths as she did. . .
Closing her eyes, she breathed in and out... in and out... when she suddenly lost balance. "WHOOOA!" she cried out loud before falling face first onto the ground. Ouch. She swallowed hard and slowly stood back up, glancing around herself. Merlin, she was awfully clumsy today. Well, she always was but... yeah. After getting back into the yoga pose, she began to clear her mind and breathe again.
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Text Cut: Professor!
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Originally Posted by Roselyn
Goodness, they sure knew their yoga. Somewhat.
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.
Laughter yoga. Interesting. Penelope had no idea there was such a thing, but it sounded pretty easy. Just make yourself laugh until you...actually laugh. That shouldn't be too hard, should it? Plus no crazy weird moves, so she was pretty okay with this so far.
And now they were standing up. The fourth year did that and then...oh, they WERE doing yoga poses? Boo. Meh. Okay. This first one didn't seem to hard. Clasping her hands together as shown, she streeeeetched her arms upwards, rising up on her tip toes, attempting deep breaths...and not thinking, wait, what?
Not think how was she supposed to do that. She went flat-footed again and dropped her arms as she listened to Professor Romanos' explanation to Alexa and Alice. Focus on one thing, like breathing? Seemed boring. But Penelope would give it a shot.
She went back up on her tip-toes and stretched her arms up again with her hands clasped together once more. In addition, she closed her eyes and tried to focus only on deep breathing...deeeeep breath....in...out...in...out...
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ACHOoooo man she was so sick of sneezing, when was this going to stop. Sniffling she took the tissue, "Thank you Professor" Taking the tissue she blew her nose then threw the tissue in her bag to throw away later. Trying to focus again she heard the question about the Yoga and was about to answer when "Achoo.. Achoo" Really was this ever going to stop.
She sniffled and rubbed her nose, please stop sneezing, she thought to herself and by the time she focused again they were moving on. Well that's great. They were learning about laughing yoga. She couldn't see herself laughing in front of either a dementor or a boggart, but it would be nice to practice the spells. She hadn't gotten to really try for a patronous yet and was really wanting to, but knew it was really hard. Maybe they would get to try later.
Trying to focus even with the tickle in her nose, she saw the professor standing into a yoga position. Doing a bigger sniffle she moved from her sitting position to stand up. Just as she was about to put her hands above her head she felt the sneeze coming again. No not this time, she was holding it in. "Aaaaaa...." she put her finger to her nose and stopped the sneeze, but pfffffffft, her eyes went wide and she looked around in horror. She did not just do that, she was trying to hold in a sneeze, not do that.. Her face felt hot from turning so red, she was embarrassed, humiliated, no worse mortified. She just passed gas in front of the entire class, not just the entire class, but ETHAN.. She looked over at him and then looked to the ground with her face blood red and holding tears back from being so embarrassed. "Achoo, Achoo" She sneezed again, never to try to hold a sneeze in again for as long as she lived.
Ariana rolled her eyes. you know if she ever were to be attacked by a dementor or see a boggart she WOULDN'T want to o YOGA.. not even that laughing kind, she would DEFEND herself. and reaching up to the sky wasn't going to do the trick..
But alas she was the student not the teacher so she stood up and stretched slightly before reaching up and clasping her hands together clearing her mind of.. Cupcakes... Quidditch.. and Hufflepuff head boys..
she smiled as every thought seemed to disappear....
a few minutes went by it seemed and she was done already with it. was this good? could they be done and learn to defend themselves now?
.. What. Was. That!?
Ariana's eyes shot open and she dropped her hands and looked around her eyes going to Min who was beat red and looking down...
No. Way.
Did She Just!?!?!
Ariana held in a giggle as she looked at her friend then Ethan and then the rest of the class as she felt so bad for her friend, though it as a bit funny. Though if anyone laughed at her or embarrassed her more she WOULD be upset and they WOULD pay
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Time to practice yoga. Not that Jory minded. Aside from DADA related stuff, they learnt yoga which was also beneficial. So it was like an extra benefit from this class.
Jory jumped up and watch as Professor Romanos stretched into the position. Seemed easy enough. Clasp of hands over the head, and streeeeetch! Up toward the sky! He tried to stand on his toes but he nearly lost his balance, flapping his hands like a chicken to keep from falling. "Wooops,'' he said straightening up. And just then... "Ronnie!'' Jory called bending down to help his friend. "Are you okay?''
After making sure Ronnie was fine, he turned his attention back to the lesson.So, instead of standing on his toes, the Puffer just stretched his clasped hands upwards and just raised himself just a bit so that he was just standing on the front part of his foot. He took the deep breaths and tried to focus on nothing at all.
Not thinking... That shouldn't be a problem for a lot of people gathered there, right? Right. Garrick did find it a bit trying as he stretched up on his tip toes and all that jazz. He kept his eyes closed tightly and TRIED to ignore all of the sneezing and stupidity around him.
TRIED.
He began deep breathing and felt his body begin to relax before his mind did. Which was no big deal. And after what seemed like an eternity he kind of hit the off switch on his thoughts.
Rini smiled brightly at the teacher and quickly stood up. She got up on her tippy toes and stretched her arms up above her head. She quickly looked around and giggled. These poses would probably help her laughing yoga. Carina quickly shook her head and closed her eyes. She allowed herself to drift away...
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To be honest all the sneezing was kind of funny anyway now that West had noticed it. Mostly because HE wasn't sneezing, it'd be way less amusing if he was. West stretched upppppp that part was easy but thinking of nothing?
.... that wasn't going to happen. He decided to think about tasting life instead. It was the best he could do.
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SPOILER!!: Professor!
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Originally Posted by Roselyn
"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.
No, Dylan didn't have any questions. It was all pretty self-explanatory. She was demonstrating the move...and the Slytherin was slowly getting his bum off the mat to mimic. As he did so, everyone was getting eyes. EVERYONE. Save for Professor Romanos. He was sure everyone was just copying her. They were lame like that.
Sniff.
"Professor, are there Yoga techniques that help with animagi transformation...." It was asked casually as he stood and reached his arms up as far as they could go. HIGH TOWARDS THE SKY, YO.
Also...clearing his mind....Breathing in and out....
Was this right?
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Laughter didn't seem like one of those relaxing things, like yoga was reputed to be. In fact, if the laughter yoga thing worked and they went from faking laughter to real laughter, it wouldn't be relaxing at all. It might be fun, though... and Mo was completely willing to try for fun.
He rolled from his position flat on his back up to his feet and tried to replicate the position the professor took. Feet planted, arms up in the air, hands clasped. Only... ACHOO... it was difficult to keep focused when he kept having to tuck his face into his elbow to sneeze violently.
But thought clearing. He could do this. He could ACHOO do this.
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Edita had been expecting something different when she prepared for DADA that day. Perhaps they would learn something about defensive spells, got to jab their wand at the air and throw someone across the room by sheer force of will and a little bit of magic alone.
Yoga hadn't been on her mind. It was something her mother liked to do when she had free time and it hadn't ever interested her. Something that Edita didn't understand at the moment as she felt very happy stretching her arms above her head as she stood on her tippy toes.
"How refreshing!" she remarked out of the corner of a massive grin. "It's like I can feel every muscle and...oh. Right. No thinking." Which probably meant no talking. Edita took a deep breath and held it and try to clear her mind.
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Glancing up to the sky momentarily, Medea took a deep breath as the questions on clearing one's thoughts started popping up. She couldn't help the smile that formed on her lips. It was amusing after all. "It just takes practice, girls." Lowering her gaze, she sought out the two that had asked. "Relax your mind. Close your eyes if you think that'd help. If you want, you can focus on one thing in particular, like your even breaths, until ...nothing at all."
Sniffle sniffle.
Practice. Well.
Well yeah.
Alice's skepticism became a little less prominent in her facial features as she tried to 'relax her mind' or whatever else she'd been instructed to do. Which was not happening, really, no matter how much she wanted it to. But still, she was attempting, which should have counted for something, right? Breathing was happening, and so were tiptoes and stretching and clasping and stuff.
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"Oh, thank you very much Miss Castell, you're too kind... but I think I'll pass." The girl may need it more than she did, considering she still wasn't a hundred percent certain that these were allergy related.
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"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.[/color]
She was too kind? She was.....kind? Hahahahahaha. No. She was just trying to help, really. Not kind...nope. She just nodded at the woman and smiled.
Laughter yoga, laughter yoga.
They were talking about laughter yoga now...which apparently, per quote, Professor Romanos said "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." They'll be doing this? Force themselves to laugh? She could use it, what with all the frustrations flying about all around the school right now. Better now as the turnstiles. Pfft. Plus, the woman said they could use it when they've ran out of other positive emotions if ever they come face to face with a dementor or boggart.
Ugh. Boggart. Geez. Why did she have to remind Beezus of that when the Sixth year had already came across that creature during the DADA OWLs practical. It had been rather unpleasant and not something she wanted to be reminded of. So...brushing those thoughts away since they were to "stop thinking altogether" anyway.
Right. Stop....thinking.
Beezus brought her hands together, toed up and reeaaaaaaaaaaaaaached up to the sky. No questions here. Just some deep breathing and more reaching. She was TRYING not to think of anything too. But annoying thoughts were annoying. The more she wanted not to think, the more they popped up. Give me a break.
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.
...
Attractive female Professor say what? She had to be joking. This was not sane, this was a Defense Against the Dark Arts class so why were they doing yoga like some disgruntled middle aged mother? This was not cool on so many levels, mmk? He was a macho man and macho men did NOT do yoga. Seriously.
So Ascanius stayed put in his seat...until he saw that everyone else was standing. UGH, COME ON. They were actually doing this? Was this going to be a normal thing in this class? If the Professor thought people were fat she should have just told specific individuals that personally and not penalized anyone else who looked awesome. Case and point: Ascanius Stark.
Anyway, Ascanius lazily drew his arms up in the air and just chilled out. Sure, it wasn't perfect but he was NOT going to do this whole yoga thing seriously. He was a man and real men didn't do yoga. Pfft. But regardless he reached for the sky.
Mika watched for a moment as she was instructed to do yoga. She didn’t really understand how you were supposed to defend yourself with yoga – sure, laughter helped with bogarts and all but she wasn’t going to break down into a yoga position when face to face with her deepest fears.
Achoo she frowned as she sneezed again.
Sniffle, sniffle. She liked how she said that forcing laughter could become real laughter because she liked laughing. She shifted and stood on her feet. She clasped her hands together and her nose twitched. Sniffle. Sniffle.
She reached up toward the sky and went onto her tip-toes and tried not to think.
ACHOOO the moment the sneeze hit she fell forward and landed on her knees. She just flushed when she stood back up and glanced around at the classmates. Slowly she tried again clasping her hands, and reaching up once more. This time, she didn’t go as far on the tip of her toes, just really on the balls of her feet.
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From the moment Michael had come to this class, he had known that he was not going to like it. This was not a Defence class, this was workout world. How did raising your hands above your head and reach for the sky teach you how to defend yourself??
He was pretty sure that if some dark wizard jumped out at you, he was not going to wait for you to get your stretches in before you began to duel.
And how was he supposed to think of nothing? When all he could think of was how ridiculous this was. Michael didn't want to be a troublemaker, okay well not in class anyway, but he couldn't bring himself to do this.
Laughter yoga.. that was an interesting concept. Though the more he listened, the more sense it made and he wished he had heard of it a term and a half ago. He was unable to defeat his boggart during his DADA OWLs and he was sure it was because he was unable to truly laugh at it.
He stood up on his mat letting out an Achoo as he did.. Merlin, these allergies or whatever they were just weren't going away, were they? He grabbed his tissues and wiped at his nose for a minute before mimicking the position of the professor. He reached up with his hands, still clasping the tissues as he scrunched up his nose feeling it tickle, and stood up on the tips of his toes. He closed his eyes, trying to shut out the noise of the sneezing all around him, when another sound caught his attention..
He glanced furtively to Minerva next to him. Had that been her? Oh.. it surely must have been because her face was beet red and she looked mortified. How embarrassing for her.. He gave her a little smile and turned to the front. "Oh.. Pardon me," he said with a chuckle, knowing that he was standing close enough to Min for enough people to think it had been him. "Toddles must have put some extra beans in the stew for lunch.. achoo.." Yes, he was the best boyfriend EVER.. and he resumed his yoga position, closing his eyes once more.
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Yoga again?
It wasn't that he didn't like it, in fact he pretty much enjoyed Yoga because it helped him calm down. But doing it during classes was just weird. But maybe the professor had a very good reason to let them all do these excersizes.
Standing up from his man, the Prefect looked at the Professor as she demonstrated how they should stand. Well, atleast it wasn't an awkward position... Stretching his arms high up in the sky, Daichi tried to stand on his toes but after only a couple of seconds he had to stand normally on his legs.
He'd first practise with clearing his mind. Closing his eyes, the Slytherin took a deep breath and breathed out deeply. He carefully peeked through the slit of his right eye to see what the other students were doing. Alright, clear the mind. ....How though? Opening his eyes, he listened to the Professors words towards the two girls. Concentrate on his breathing? He could do that!
Breathe in, Breathe out. With his eyes closed and arms stretched he concentrated on his breathing. He wondered how the rest of the class was doing and suddenly had a image in his mind of how the class was doing the yoga pose and trying to concentrate on not thinking while they tried not to sneeze...
"Hehehe" he giggled and quickly held his hand over his mouth. NO ONE HEARD THAT!
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Now they had started doing it. It didn't exactly look like a very good idea to her, even after the professor had assured her it wasn't useless. Really? When a dementor or something vile comes up... we just do this? First DADA class people!
Sighing, she stood up along with the others in the class. Merlin, I'm gonna look funny. She stretched her hands, raising them above her head. Then she put her whole weight on her toes.
Easy-pisey. She'd done a lot of these before. World tour had its own advantages. Heh. But the hard part was those meditation thingys....
Benjy miiiight have been a little distracted whilst the other students answered the question, but even he didn't know why. He shouldn't be. He actually quite liked class. And the outdoors, well, that was a definite bonus.
He zoned back in though as he noticed everyone around him getting up. Of course - yoga. Benjy would FAR rather get on with the spells. He could even practice on Garrick! HAH. Regardless, he stood in the centre of his purple mat, and began to streeeeetch upwards.
Up towards the sky...
Thinking about nothingness...
...until his stomach decided to make the loudest GRUMBLY-RUMBLE. Benjamin gave a furtive look round the class, and rubbed his stomach gently. Maybe people wouldn't have noticed, given the sneezing and giggling and other noises going on? He could hope. He didn't know what he'd say if Garrick questioned him about it.
At least his cousin wouldn't get to mention it for a while, right?
laughing on command? this was easy. Kommoto stood, opened his mouth, and... Sneezed. Brushing it off, he tried again. Again he sneezed. This was ridiculous. he kept sneezing whenever he tried to laugh. The more he sneezed, the more frustrated he became. He kept trying. more and more. he sneezed. more and more. He wiped his nose with some parchment, and was able to get out a laugh before another sneeze. Almost crying from frustration now, he kept trying to laugh, and never was able to do more than sneeze. Stamping his feet, he continued until the teacher moved the class to the next topic.
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She clasped her hands together and slowly stretched them up as high as they could go, standing on her tippy toes as she did. Next, she began to clear her mind of everything, taking deep breaths as she did. . .
Closing her eyes, she breathed in and out... in and out... when she suddenly lost balance. "WHOOOA!" she cried out loud before falling face first onto the ground. Ouch. She swallowed hard and slowly stood back up, glancing around herself. Merlin, she was awfully clumsy today. Well, she always was but... yeah. After getting back into the yoga pose, she began to clear her mind and breathe again.
Oh dear! "Miss Hawkins! Are you alright?" Goodness...
Lack of reflexes, that one.
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No, Dylan didn't have any questions. It was all pretty self-explanatory. She was demonstrating the move...and the Slytherin was slowly getting his bum off the mat to mimic. As he did so, everyone was getting eyes. EVERYONE. Save for Professor Romanos. He was sure everyone was just copying her. They were lame like that.
Sniff.
"Professor, are there Yoga techniques that help with animagi transformation...." It was asked casually as he stood and reached his arms up as far as they could go. HIGH TOWARDS THE SKY, YO.
Also...clearing his mind....Breathing in and out....
Was this right?
That was certainly an interesting question. One she unfortunately didn't have a very good answer for. "I'm afraid I'm unfamiliar with the animagi transformation process, Mister Montmorency, so I'm unable to really say." She smiled apologetically. "If this is something you're really interested in finding out about though, we can talk more after class about it."
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Trying to focus even with the tickle in her nose, she saw the professor standing into a yoga position. Doing a bigger sniffle she moved from her sitting position to stand up. Just as she was about to put her hands above her head she felt the sneeze coming again. No not this time, she was holding it in. "Aaaaaa...." she put her finger to her nose and stopped the sneeze, but pfffffffft, her eyes went wide and she looked around in horror. She did not just do that, she was trying to hold in a sneeze, not do that.. Her face felt hot from turning so red, she was embarrassed, humiliated, no worse mortified. She just passed gas in front of the entire class, not just the entire class, but ETHAN.. She looked over at him and then looked to the ground with her face blood red and holding tears back from being so embarrassed. "Achoo, Achoo" She sneezed again, never to try to hold a sneeze in again for as long as she lived.
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He glanced furtively to Minerva next to him. Had that been her? Oh.. it surely must have been because her face was beet red and she looked mortified. How embarrassing for her.. He gave her a little smile and turned to the front. "Oh.. Pardon me," he said with a chuckle, knowing that he was standing close enough to Min for enough people to think it had been him. "Toddles must have put some extra beans in the stew for lunch.. achoo.." Yes, he was the best boyfriend EVER.. and he resumed his yoga position, closing his eyes once more.
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And then that happened.
Perhaps it was best to move on? Yes, some distracting questions!
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laughing on command? this was easy. Kommoto stood, opened his mouth, and... Sneezed. Brushing it off, he tried again. Again he sneezed. This was ridiculous. he kept sneezing whenever he tried to laugh. The more he sneezed, the more frustrated he became. He kept trying. more and more. he sneezed. more and more. He wiped his nose with some parchment, and was able to get out a laugh before another sneeze. Almost crying from frustration now, he kept trying to laugh, and never was able to do more than sneeze. Stamping his feet, he continued until the teacher moved the class to the next topic.
Oh goodness. "Mister Yammoto?" Her eyebrows knitted together a little as she watched him. "Are you alright?"
Clearing her throat a little, she relaxed her posture and rubbed her nose more. She was going for a record timing in keeping this sneezing business down. "Alright, you can relax, everyone. We'll be moving into something called the tree pose. And yes, I'm quite aware it doesn't look like a tree, but I don't make up the titles." She chuckled lightly before slowly moving into the position. "You may want to balance most of your weight on her left leg first before resting your right foot on your inner thigh."
She was going to have to step out of it momentarily though.
ACHOO!
Record broken.
Ahem. "While you are hopefully balancing..." Sniffle."...Let's talk about boggarts for a moment. Does anyone have any theories on what they look like when alone? Or perhaps how they came to be in this world?"
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Minerva's head was still down when she heard Ethan's words. She was mortified to all end, but at the same time felt that was super sweet of him, but she could never look at him again either.. This was just horrible! As her mind was all about that and her nose was still threatening more sneezes, she forgot all about yoga poses until she heard the professors voice.
Lifting her eyes without lifting her head she remembered she was suppose to be in a pose, thankful they were switching to another pose, Minerva tried to lift her head, but she wasn't able to get the blush out of her face. Maybe she could just leave class. No that wouldn't work being in the front row. She took a deep breath and moved into the next Yoga pose. "Achoo" This needed to stop, she was embarrassed enough.
Once into the yoga position, Minerva found it hard to stand still with the sneezing, but she tried to put her hand up anyway. "If a boggart is a non-being, would it be like a mist or ghost type of matter when alone." She really wasn't sure, but how would anyone really know. No one would be near a boggart if it was alone.
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