Aurora's idea of yoga and what this class was actually shaping up to be couldn't have been farther apart. For some reason she'd imagined it being kind of relaxed and low energy; something to keep you active without actually putting you through any seriously taxing work.
Yeah, no. This was surprisingly painful. She'd not spent one minute not regretting her decisions today and yet she somehow found her regrets doubling now.
The poses were tense and tight and it took every ounce of willpower in Aurora's body to keep the poses despite how almost disturbingly long they were asked to maintain each pose.
The thought to just half-ass it never crossed her mind for some strange reason, she found herself not wanting to leave a bad impression. The instructor paced around the room, inspecting each woman closely as she went. Her hands wandered here and there as she gently adjusted their poses.
"Feel all that? Feel that burn, that feeling you're all sharing? It's wonderful, isn't it? A room full of women going through one experience and hardship together. No judgement or adherence to gender roles. No adherence to the idea that you must be weak or that your life and desires should revolve around the men in your life. You are all together in your femininity, free and strong. You are all Goddesses." She said.
God, it was all girlboss fake feminist waffle but damn if it didn't sound sincere coming from ber. And to be honest, she was at least right about feeling like they were all kind of together in this. Hearing their grunts of pain and seeing their red faces as they were all in basically the same boat as Aurora, it really did urge her on to continue this. Even if it hurt like a motherfucker.
"Bridge poses, Goddesses!" Aurora feels a fireball of cutting pain in her core, irritated and so intense it was almost all she could feel. She thrusts her hips into the air just like them all, until the instructor commands them to raise their hips higher higher higher. Move your knees farther apart. Good fucking lord this sucked.
"Huuuugh..." Aurora groaned in annoyance, red-faced and trembling. There was that feeling, that pull. Like her core was being tugged on and squeezed.
"Come on, keep going! You are strong goddesses, even you newbies. Find it in yourself to be stronger, to keep going because you have the drive to improve your body and your life. Fight that urge, keep on ladies!" She commanded them as they all were practically in delirium with the stress on our bodies.
They were asked to spread their feet farther apart. Aurora felt fucking ridiculous but she didn't stop. Her crotch was open to the world right now and her entire body was volcanic. She could start to feel that horrible tugging burning squeezing feeling everywhere as it spread all over like a slow wave.
It was weird, she could feel it start to touch muscles all over her body; it touched muscles like spreading a wave of quick twitching sensations all over. Her body shivered and then pulsed in order from her head down to her toes as each muscle and limb responded and pulsed one by one.
Then another wave. Then another wave. Aurora groaned and grit her teeth in pain. Well, mostly pain. It was weird, it started to become just pure sensation as it went almost beyond pain. Though the pain and soreness and desperation to stop were still definitely present.
The wave pulsed throughout her core and her body as her chest and belly and hips sort of rolled with each wave. You know belly dancing? Sort of like that.
"Fuck..." Aurora breathed sharply. The waves of burning tense sensation rolled through her body and into the space between her legs. Now *those* muscles were being tugged on just as prominently as her core.
"Okay, down." Thank fucking god. She laid down and they all sighed in relief at the same time. All going through this together, all moist with a thin layer of sweat. Some of the veterans already had the Shine from previous workouts that day.
Christ, the instructor's ass cheeks were insane. They were almost shelf-like. BBL? It had to be, but at the same time this gym prided itself on everyone being all natural. Ahem. What was happening before this? Oh yeah, the waves. Her crotch had been starting to feel weird, thank God she'd gotten relief from that.
"Put those legs in the air, Goddesses!" Dammit. They all lifted their legs into the air and groaned in unison as they were suspended there. They were asked to move their legs up and down. Very slowly and in subtle motions that didn't go too far down or upward. They also moved their legs and feet in circles at specific intervals.
Aurora breathed deeply as she tried to keep on. Sweat was getting in her eyes and her body was on fire and trembling and squeezing and god dammit all of that with the humid musty smell was making it hard to think.
"Keep going, ladies. You can do it, Goddesses! That burn, let it melt everything away. Just focus on that feeling of overcoming the odds together; of sisterhood." Aurora heard. The waves and burning were back harder than ever, though at least her crotch wasn't on full display anymore.
"Now, I want you release a deep breath as you open your legs in a circle and bring them back together, okay? 3...2...1..." the instructor started.