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Hufflepuff Fifth Year
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Slytherin Fifth Year
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Question 1: SPOILER!!: Quote:
Originally Posted by Roselyn  She was right about there being a few more stragglers. "Good morning, Miss Barnhill." she smiled. "Good day, Miss Greene." she smiled with a little nod. Letting her arms drop to her sides, Medea looked at her watch for the last time before seeing just who was the last to enter. "Good morning, Mister Messer. You're right on time."
Stretching her arms, she looked back out to the crowd of students, taking note of who was stretching and who wasn't. She'd give the ones who were a few more minutes to do so, and the ones who weren't...a few minutes to start doing so if they so wished. "I think ve'll start now." Any more stragglers will have to do push ups. "Last class, I had you all do a few yoga positions. Any thoughts on why?" There was indeed a reason.
Lets see how many students were paying attention to each-other's answers and could actually remember them from the previous lesson.
Minerva followed the professors directions copying her actions then she put her hand up. "Professor yoga is a great way to bring balance not only to your body, but to your mind. It helps with flexibility as well as waking your senses. So us doing these positions as we did our lesson helped us concentrate more and woke our brains up to retain more information.
Question 2 SPOILER!!: Quote:
Originally Posted by Roselyn SPOILER!!: answers
A good start to the answers, but it was only a small part of the reason Medea had them start with yoga positions. "While true..." she smiled. "It is not the main reason. Good though."
Medea nodded slowly as he answered, and her smiled widened a little more during the second portion. "Yes, that was part of the main reason. Good."
"Not exactly relax, no." she chuckled softly. "Focusing more on the multi-tasking aspect of it. Good."
Oh? And now she was back to Alyssa. There was the part she was looking for in the answers. "Concentration is indeed one of the main reason, yes." she smiled. "Definitely don't vont that spell to fail."
Her reason on flexibility actually sounded painful in the Professor's opinion. Stretch out your bones? "Concentration is one of the main reasons." she nodded, accepting the girl's answer. "Good."
Truth be told, she had indeed wondered if there was any physical aspect of education in the student's curriculum here. "Not...really, no. Though that is a good idea." What better class to get your exercise in than defense class?
Just how many scowls would she receive if she admitted that was a very tiny reason in which she chose to do yoga? "In a vay, I suppose. Yes."
The young Slytherin had a few good reasons. "Dueling can indeed be a difficult and strenuous task." she nodded slowly. "Though one class von't make you an expert vith your agility. You build that up over time." Meaning it wasn't one of the reasons she was looking for. "Good thoughts though."
Medea smiled, but shook her head 'no'. "You don't necessarily need strong muscles to duel efficiently, nor the strongest of spells. The vay you duel is vot counts."
"I can't it's not important..." she chuckled. "It does have it's uses, though not the reason I had in mind."
Medea nodded. "Yes, that is indeed one of the main reasons."
"Concentration, yes." she nodded.
The Hufflepuff girl had hit them all on the mark. "Some which are more important than others, but in general, yes." she nodded. "Good."
Potions...?
Eyebrows raising a little, her gaze settled on the young Slytherin girl, whom she recognized as one of the students who was not in her previous lesson. "Concentration is one the reasons, though not mainly to concentrate on your body and the positions I everyone do. Good though."
"In a vay...I suppose." she nodded, contemplating the girl's answer. Not entirely the main reason, but close enough. "Good."
"You were on the right track vith the first suggestion." she chuckled.
"I don't know how one could become more flexible vith just one lesson, but focusing was a main reason, yes." It must've been some serious yoga session then.
"A good reason to do so, but not the reason I had you all do a few of the poses." she smiled before moving on to the next student.
"For some, yes." she nodded. Though whether that was the girl's answer or just a question in general...Medea moved on to the next student anyway.
"Indeed it does." she nodded with a smile. "Though unfortunately, not the reason I had you all do so."
Oh, here was something new being said. "You're on the right track."
"True indeed." she smiled, yet shook her head a little. "Not one of the main reasons I had you all do so, but good thoughts."
"Flexibility could help in a duel, yes, although it's not vot I vos going for. You're on the right track vith concentration."
"That vould indeed be a great advantage." she nodded. "Though I vos more going vith the focus. Good thoughts."
Breathing was indeed a good thing to do just in general. She kept that comment to herself though. "It is." she nodded. "Though I don't think one lesson on the topic vould make one an expert." Meaning it wasn't what she was going for. "Good thoughts though."
Medea nodded slowly, her smile widening a little more. It seemed Miss Hollingberry had thought a little more on the subject. "You are indeed on the right track from vot I vos going for." she nodded. "Good."
Well someone knew a little something about yoga. It had Medea smiling. "As brilliant as that sounds, it's not the main reason I had in mind. Though you may be on the right track vith raising awareness." Well, those were some better answers than she had at the beginning of the previous lesson. None of the creeped her out. "Most of you were on the right track vith vot I vos going for. However, there vos also a reason for the dark room as vell, as it ties in vith the yoga. Many of you, or even only a few of you, may have noticed that a few of your other senses were kicking into overdrive since your sense of sight vos blinded. Perhaps even letting you think a bit more clearly since you aren't distracted vith too many objects in front of you."
Having switched stretching her arms already, she started with stretching her legs. "I had you all do a few yoga positions to counter your train of thoughts. Challenge you if you vill. You could've thought clearly in the dark since ve were only going over review, something in which you should have been comfortable vith, but since I added in that little challenge, it made it that more difficult for you to do. Many of you right now had mentioned a bit of multi-tasking during dueling, or some encounter against your opponent, and most of the time, it vill not be in your comfort zone. The circumstances can vary depending on the outcome, but the end result is still the same, sometimes even making you frustrated to point of losing altogether."
"So, that is vot ve'll be vorking on today. Taking you out of your comfort zone. One of you had suggested it last lesson..." Though she forgot which. "Our five senses and how they come in handy during dueling, or in other vords, how to duel when one of them is taken away. You all know your five senses. Sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. Which one do you think is the most important during dueling? And which is the least important?" 
Minerva changed stretching positions and put her hand up. "In dueling would sight be your best sense. To see your opponent you can know there action." she wasn't sure, but she decided to take a guess. She knew it wouldn't be taste, maybe if the person you were facing smelled really bad smell would be a factor, but probably not. You wouldn't want to touch the person you were fighting so touch would be out, so it had to either be see or hear.
Question 3 SPOILER!!: Quote:
Originally Posted by Roselyn As the answers started, at least three-fourths of them was what she'd been expecting them to say. Sight and sound as she had heard, were the most important to them. Though the few that mentioned touch caught her attention, and the ones that stated all were important had Medea smiling a bit more. At least there was some thinking out of the box going on.
"So most of you think that sight and sound are the most important, as vell as taste being the least important." she said, letting her foot lay back down on the ground. Done with the stretching. "There is no right or wrong answer. You're all entitled to your opinions. They are all important in their own vays, even taste, though I believe it's safe to assume that most people vould be rather unbalanced if they lost their sense of sight during a duel. While sound has it's privileges and certainly comes in handy, one doesn't rely as heavily on the sense of sound than they do vith sight. However, when you take sight away, your sense of sound becomes your right hand man. Learning to take advantage of it and using it to it's full potential is a whole other story though, and vice versa."
"Today ve'll be working on those two senses, but first, who can tell me vot spell is your greatest asset in a duel?"
Minerva listened to the professor and then put up her hand again. "Professor wouldn't expelliarmus be your greatest asset in a duel. If you can get your opponents wand away from them then you would be able to have the upper hand as well as be safer from harm.
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