Office drones and Internet addicts finally have a yoga class tailored to their needs, provided at the Lakeway Activity Center.
Yoga for Geeks, created by yoga instructor Rena Smith, is designed to provide mental and physical reprieve for anyone who spends an inordinate amount of time hunched over a desk staring at a computer monitor.
“I’m a semi-geek myself, and I spend a lot of time in front of a computer screen, so I know the strain that you can get in your neck and shoulders,” Smith said, “but I’ve been doing yoga for years, and it helps, after you’ve been crouched over a screen gazing at it all day long.”
Smith’s class, which meets once a week over the course of six weeks, is designed to teach attendees how to use adapted yoga positions while they’re sitting in a chair at their desk. She plans to set up desks and chairs in the classroom to simulate the work environment.
“We’re adapting what we do on the mat in general yoga, (using) techniques which are meditative to ease eye strain while you’re looking at a computer all day long,” Smith said, “You can use meditative techniques to assist in clearing the brain to help focus on what you need to do.”
The classes are non-challenging, and Smith encourages attendees not to wear traditional yoga gear but to wear what they wear when sitting at their computers.
“They should expect to take away some techniques both physical and mental to assist in enjoying their work on computers, and not feeling so crunched up and unfocused,” she said.
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