The Studio as Ritual Space

On my second day at yoga, I decided to go back to the Ocean City Aquatic center. My instructors name was Debbie. The aquatic center uses the same room for most of their different class exercises. I have come to this class before so I understood what I was getting myself into and how the yoga instructor taught the class. The room smelt like plastic and pool, since there is a swimming pool that takes up most of the building, I guess it was pretty safe to assume the smell of wetness was in the area. Debbie, my yoga instructor played calming music as we began to go through out yoga class. there was not decorations on the walls I guess that is due to the fact that the room had multiple purposes. The other people who were in the room seemed to have a positive outlook and seemed to really love coming to yoga. I did not have that aspect yet, I thought that yoga was still super hard. Everyone in the room seemed really nice and calming. They welcomed me into their circle of regular yoga goers. Another thing that you could here were the people in the hall way and also the people in the gym that happened to be right next to the yoga room.