Friday, January 4, 2019

Following Ari Melber's lead - Fall Back Friday!

Dear you -

Happy 2019 and happy Fall Back Friday too, the first of this year.  As a tribute to Melber as featured on MSNBC, I have decided to do fall backs here on my humble blog too.  To get on topic, first consider this photo:

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This is FABULOUS!  This appears to be some sort of aerobics class, updated with expressive clothing choices and "dance like nobody is watching" attitude.  I love this!  I miss this!  In my zone, group exercise is dedicated to lame yoga classes and way-too-serious Crossfit style workouts. But the former is everywhere and totally replaced full-out movement fun.  There are no classic aerobics classes in this county, or the next, or the next.  But yoga?  It's everywhere.  Yoga on paddle boards, yoga with pets, yoga for Jesus, yoga in the nude. I am over its ubiquity and so I say on this first Fall Back Friday of 2019, YOGA, fall back!

I am sorry, but who wants to start a class by sitting down in some kind of lotus position and then awkwardly reaching overhead?  No sense.  It makes no sense.  And the talking that goes on, oh my god.  I know these instructors have good intentions, but I really don't need them to act as spiritual advisers or self-esteem boosters.  (Once, a yoga-gal told a class I participated in to "love yourself with every inhale and exhale".  What the hell does that even mean?)

So, to each his/her own.  BUT BRING BACK THE FULL OUT, UNABASHED AND UNEMBARRASSED PLEASURE OF OLD SCHOOL AEROBICS CLASSES!!!!

Yoga, fall back.  Aerobics, rock on.

Love,
Joyce
XO

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