- Claudia lost her shit in the video though.
- You're not getting half of what you're supposed
to get out of this because it's like so intense.
Sorry, I'm stressed out about it, I'm just saying.
(boat horn blows)
- My name is Violeta Isavel, I teach yoga.
I have been practicing for about 15 years.
- [Gadiel] What are we expecting today?
- Well I was planning on doing just some
like super basic stuff just to get you guys familiar.
What's gonna be challenged is your mental focus
because the thing is that when we do yoga poses,
there's a lot of different actions.
- Do you find that a lot of Latinos actually do yoga?
- No, not so much. - Why do you think that is?
- It's just not like embedded in us
to like go workout or to like be conscious
of these things, you know?
- Do you think that because culturally
we might be like louder and we have more like movement
that maybe it's harder for us to focus?
I feel like that's gonna be like
what I'm gonna have trouble with.
- If I tell my mama (speaks Spanish)
- Exactly!
- We wanna focus on a nice tall spine.
It changes the way our energy moves in our bodies.
Just find stillness
Yeah you can close your eyes now.
- Let her teach the class.
(shushing sound)
(piano music)
- I mentioned satya, satya is truth in Sanskrit, okay?
So now we're gonna come to all fours.
Bring your hands to the floor in front of you.
- Julius and I was not taking it seriously.
- [Woman] Like class clown.
- We just class clowns.
- It's okay.
- So your knees don't move okay, just the feet.
Does your forehead come to the floor?
Can you press your forehead down?
Okay good.
(Woman laughs)
How do your knees feel, are you okay?
Just check, you don't have to answer me, just...
- [Gadiel] I feel good.
- I was playing around in the beginning a lot, right?
I thought like I was like I was just kidding
I was like fucking around, who gives a fuck,
this is silly, it's yoga.
- I know, try to stay where you are.
- Stay where you are bro.
- We need to take a real yoga class
because this class with Julius
and Gadiel was not a real yoga class.
- Dang, Gadiel, you never heard of lotion?
(laughs)
Crusty-ass feet.
- [Gadiel] Take off your socks, let me see your feet.
- A few more rounds, inhale, part forward, good.
- I've got sinus.
- [Violeta] It's okay.
- You guys made it a competition, y'all were yelling,
y'all were calling each other out, yoga is about
a very quietly supportive environment.
- Man, you're not planking.
- I'm planking, you're not--
- No, I'm talking to Maya Angelisa here!
- I was waiting for her.
- I'm gonna be a teacher favorite here
and say that I think yoga is about being supportive.
- She said that I was very flexible.
- Well, she lied, 'cause you were like (grunts).
- [Maya] And she was, you were getting a little--
- [Julius] I was like--
- [Claudia] I was getting huffy.
- [Violeta] A pretty hard pose because--
- [Gadiel] Claudia, what's up with that face?
- Nada, nada.
- [Violeta] Core strengthening,
okay but you have to use your legs.
- (speaks spanish) When we did that thing with one foot,
remember that one thing? - Oh yeah.
- Yo, I was so proud, I was like yo--
First time doing yoga!
- [Julius] Are you holding it on your thigh?
- [Violeta] Slow exhale, it's okay if you
have to fall out of it, if you do fall--
- You saw that?
(speaks spanish)
(laughs)
- Get your game up!
Get your game up!
- [Claudia] Gadiel, this is not what yoga is!
- Relax, not screaming. - I know this is for a video,
but you're not getting half of what
you're supposed to get out of this
because it's like so intense.
Sorry, I'm stressed out about it, just saying.
This is not, this is not yoga.
- [Woman] No, but you're learning poses.
- Actually, I feel excited, I'm actually happy about it.
- [Claudia] You're supposed to support everybody.
- [Gadiel] I am supporting.
- [Claudia] This is not a winning thing.
- Okay, I get it, it's yoga, so you gotta be serious,
but I also wanna have fun.
- Yeah, that's true, (speaks spanish) yoga,
if you're not having fun.
- Exactly.
- Separate your legs a little bit more Gadiel.
- So it's hard for him.
- That's good though.
- But I'm flexible too.
- So this is a preparation for crow pose, okay?
But this is the Malasana squat.
This is a pose in itself.
So can I tell you how to avoid that uncomfortable feeling?
- [Gadiel] How?
- Squeeze and lift your anus and sex organs.
Squeeze your bits. Squeeze them.
- My anus is unsqueezable.
- [Julius] That's not what I heard.
- Oh, that works, wow.
- So until the end, when I started really focusing
then I really started seeing that I actually was like
doing the things that I was supposed to be doing.
- I think what was funny was that like at the end,
like Gadiel was super good all the sudden,
like he was the one that could do the pose.
- Bring it to the floor.
(says expletive in Spanish)
(laughs)
- Actually you're wrong.
- Claudia!
- Is this the right form?
- And she has experience.
Yo tengo zero experience.
All I have is Naval experience.
- Stab at it. - I think you would love yoga,
'cause it's so spiritual.
- I loved it.
I feel like Maya did end up crying
and I almost started crying.
- Oh Mayita, why you cry? - [Maya] (giggles) Oh my gosh.
- Maya cry.
(laughs)
- Because the end was when we were Zen.
The end was everybody, I could feel them give up
whatever they were trying to do for camera
and just allow themselves to breathe deeply
and to just be calm and to be totally in
with the yoga process.
- Whenever you're ready start to come up,
come back up to a seat.
(exhales)
Feel your heart beat again.
And thank you guys for letting me guide you today.
Namaste.
- Namaste
(laughs)
because we don't get to do that in class, you know?
(relaxing oriental music)
(squeaking sound)