Stretch it out! Get your yoga on

Going a little stir crazy? Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, and a little bit scared with everything that’s going on? We are too. It’s normal to experience feelings of stress and anxiety in such a time of change, uncertainty, and general upheaval; however, there are some things you can do to help ease that!

Yesterday for our PE hour, students at Quarantine U took an hour long meditative yoga class via Zoom. Lots of fitness places are offering live virtual classes for free right now, so check in with your local studio to see what options are available! YouTube has an arsenal of pre-recorded videos as well for all variations and levels of yoga and meditation. We Zoomed into a class in Palo Alto and set up a cozy room with mats, blankets, pillows, and candles to get ourselves in zen mode.

Whether or not you’ve tried meditation or yoga before, it can be an incredibly helpful and restorative practice. All of the extreme changes that have taken place over in the last few weeks can leave us feeling a bit lost, uprooted, and without purpose, especially if you are stuck at home! Living alone or with other people both come with their own set of challenges, and it’s more important now than ever to take a deep breath and take care of ourselves so that we can continue to take care of and be there for the ones we love as well. At a safe distance of course ;)

Do you have any favorite yoga classes or channels? Let us know! And let us know any other contemplative practices you like to do— lord knows we’ve got plenty of time to try them all out.