Yoga

YOGA JOURNAL NOTES : Personal Yoga Experience

A practice in introspection

Letting your inner self emerge onto the written page

(2700 words in total)

As you write your journal notes you should refer to what you have learned or experienced in this class. You can specifically refer to what has been helpful to you or beneficial as you move through other areas of your life. What new perspectives do you have? Explore your inner self.

A few general ideas are –

Skills and practices that you learn in this yoga class which increase your abilities in other classes that you are taking here at college.

Skills such as the way you interact with other people.

Or maybe physical health issues. You may notice that it is easier for you to be creative or that it is easier for you to concentrate.

A few specific course reader pages that can be of help are:

Yoga benefits, Daily Yoga, What are you Expecting, Personal Assessment, Alignment Assignment.

On the front page include your name, the course number, section number and semester and total word count.

Write throughout the semester, not all at once. This will allow personal insights to percolate to the surface.

I am not specific in regards to what you should write about, because it will be different for each person in the class.

Write from an introspective creative personal point of view, do not repeat technically what we do in class.

Content is important. ( introspective vs. intellectual )

It can be one long narrative or many short individual topics.

Grammar and punctuation are not as important as the overall creative flow is.

Write periodically throughout the semester.

You can write once every two weeks , just don’t leave it all until the end of the semester.

Include Total Word Count on Title Page

* Be sure to mark what week you are reflecting. (e.g. week 1 and 2/ week 3 and 4). Be sure to write about sun posture in detail.

These images tell you what yoga poses we learned for every two weeks.