Okay, boys and girls, it is timo
take a deep breath in and out ae
prepare to be transported to the peace
and tranquility of a Van Gogh painting.
But we're not going to a museum.
Oh no. We are going to a yoga c.
Did you know you can strike a warrior's
pose or downward dog while immersed in
a swirly spectacle of starry Ni?
We sent our Terry Holloman to
the Van Gogh exhibit. Seattle.
Check it out.
Wow, Mary. This place is incred.
Can you tell us exactly where we
at? We are at the Van Gogh
Immersive Experience in Soto.
This is a exhibit designed to
help you and fully get immersedn
Vincent Van Gogh's artwork and .
Yeah, well, I can tell you alre,
I feel 100% more relaxed,
more calm than when I
first woke up this morning.
Why do you think that feeling
is overcoming me right now?
Well, it's the way
the exhibit is curated.
It's designed to help bring
you into another place,
export you or import you,
if you will, into the work.
The life of Vincent van Gogh.
So the music is calming and soothing.
The artwork is expanded so
that you can fully immerse
yourself into the artwork. Yeah.
So what is your favorite
part of this entire exhibit?
Oh, my favorite part is called the bedroom.
And it's part of a three art ses
that Van Gogh painted of his vey
own bedroom when he lived in Fr.
And this exhibit you can
actually walk into the bedroom.
So they took the actual piece ot
and then made it. 3 dimensional.
Oh wow. Yes.
So it's completely immersible.
You do a thing here with immersive yoga.
You're a yoga instructor.
How does that go together?
This artwork,
this incredible Van Gogh art
that's going on in here and yog.
So this is where we combine
art and technology and yoga.
So we get the opportunity to
delve deeper into the artwork of
Vincent van Gogh while moving
and breathing together on our
yoga mats. Yeah. OK, Mary,
so what's first? This
is your very special VIP
Van Gogh Yoga Mats. Yes,
yes. Let's start with a little warm up.
Inhale, sweep your arms out nice and wide,
and reach up to the sky.
Now exhale and forward.
Fold to lead with your heart.
Bring your hands down to your l.
Very nice. Yeah. Now inhale.
Coming back to stand.
Sweep your arms nice and wide and stand up.
And then exhale.
Hands the prayer in front of your heart.
Awesome. Let's bring your hands down.
Okay.
So now that we're warmed up,
let's move into another posture,
a little bigger posture.
So you're going to put your
right foot on your leg and then hands
to prayer and then focusing on e
point, maybe doorknob. Arms up.
Here it goes. Nice job.
OK, foot goes to leg.
And then arms up like a
tree in nature. I am a tree.
Beautiful. Then go
painted. A lot of nature. Yes, .
But I'm the tree. And now you're
a tree in the breeze. You are
a breeze. Breezy tree. Awesome.
Okay. You could come out.
That's so good. Apparently
the crow pose is pretty challen.
Crow pose could be very challen.
Well, the first thing I'm going
to have you do is bring your has
behind you and your feet to the.
And this is for your hips,
because we're going to lift your hips.
Let's bring your knees side to .
So I'm going to have you bring
knees side to side. There you g,
side to side and let's go to table top.
So let's come to hands and knees, table top.
Good. Now we're going to take a cat and cow.
So I'm going to have you cat and cow.
Cat and cow, yes.
So that's like a cat and a cat.
That's the name of this thing.
That's right. It's 22.
Animals. 2 postures, but one?
Yeah.
So we're going to lift your chet
and then exhale round your back.
Good. Inhale. Lift your chest.
OK, All right. So now our next post is
down dog. So you're going to tuk
your toes and lift your knees
back for down dog.
That's it. Good.
I'm pushing the floor away.
This looks great.
OK, now this is where we start
to move into our crow. So I'm
going to have you walk your feet
to your hands. Let's go forward.
And your hands can lift off the floor.
OK, So now you're going to bring
your heels in and your toes out,
and then you're going to squat .
So you're going to bring your hs
to the floor, lift your knees,
and bring your knees to your triceps.
And then
you're going to look forward,
bring 1 foot.
Maybe you left the other foot.
Oh, come on. It's not going to happen.
I'm not doing that today.
So what do you think?
So what, We'll go walk
your hands forward.
So you walk your hands forward and you.
Push down, push down really har.
Bring your knees to your triceps. Oh, lordy,
no, this is great.
You look fantastic already.
OK, so use your core
knees to your triceps.
Lean forward. It's gonna
hurt my hips a little bit, too,t
it's a big it's a big one.
It's a big hip opener.
There you go. Yay.
And then we come down. Yeah, co,
come. That's the crow. All
right.
Thank you. Oh, you're
welcome.
Wait, were you playing?
Have you ever done yoga before?
Never in my life. Never.
I tried hot yoga once before,
but it's not the same. Yeah, this was.
You didn't do the crow.
I mean, I was really impressed.
Thank you. I know.
Were you relaxed or did you get,
like, a good workout?
It was a little bit of both.
I mean, the whole experience was kind of Zen,
kind of peaceful.
But then I started doing those s
and I kind of broke into a swea.
Cool. The scenery was cool.
I was. It was incredible.
You can't beat that experience.
That's amazing.
Well, the next immersive yoga
class is this Saturday, July 8t.
Terry may be there.
You don't know.
You do need to bring your own
yoga mat unless you want to
splurge on the VIP treatment,
which includes a Van Gogh
yoga mat and some other merch
like you saw Terry using with
his dogs on that merch there.