Yoga Jeans

Well I can't say I wasn't warned. On the first day of Intro to Acting our professor told us to wear comfy clothes to class, said specifically not to wear tight jeans and pointed out several people in the class who would need to change their attire.

I don't own any ultra skinny, skinny, or tight fitting jeans at all for that matter. Since the average temperature in Blacksburg is roughly 35 degrees right now and I don't think shorts or sweat pants would cut it, I didn't even give this another thought.

As it turns out, "don't wear tight jeans" was great advice, but not complete advice. Complete advice would sound like this. "Don't wear jeans to this class at all. Ever."

I consider myself pretty mobile in my jeans, but then I've never tried to yoga in them (or at any time in my past) which is conveniently how she likes to start class. Started out fine: hand above head, down to toes, downward facing dog, slide into cobra, and then FAIL.

I should mention that I am out of my element talking about this, and feel a little silly typing out the names of these positions, so forgive me if I am incorrect.

If you don't know what, "downward facing dog," is, it's basically holding your self up with hand and toes and you butt way up in the air. The slide into cobra from there basically lowers your but to the ground and raises your head to the sky, kinda like a seal. FAIL is when you then bring one foot up to line up with your fingertips.

Now I don't know how this would feel for a girl, but guys I can only say, DONT WEAR JEANS. The amount of.. hmm friction? pinching? and squeezing? that occurs is simply awful, not to mention there is a definite possibility that even loose jeans could rip.

Fortunately my jeans remained intact, but I could feel some threads getting awful thin. Overall I think this is probably the most basic Yoga anyone could ever do, and I think the real purpose is just to wake us up, but to be honest it works pretty well. I don't imagine I'll be attending an actual class anytime soon, but it's definitely a different way to move around... just don't wear jeans.