Proposal: Learning Hatha Yoga

I’m going to learn a certain type of yoga and the history of it.

Needs and Opportunities

Explain the problem you have noticed that needs to be solved with a project like yours. This is also your hook, so make sure you grab our attention. Yoga takes a lot of time and it is difficult to learn and easy to mess up.

Audience / Clients / Users

Explain who will benefit from your project. How will you be able to access them for an empathy interview? Lots of people can benefit from yoga. Yoga does many things such as makes you happier and decreases your blood pressure. Yoga can also make you fit.

Mentors

Who can help you with this project? Who will you need to contact and what will you ask them to commit to in helping you? My dad can help me with pictures because he is a photographer but other than that I don’t think I need that much help.

Timeline

What is your monthly timeline for this project? I want to see a list of deliverables with deadlines. You may find that the timeline needs adjustment during the course of the year, which may be fine. Check in with me if that’s the case.

February 26	start researching
March 4	begin learning positions
March 11	keep learning more
March 18	take first pictures
March 25	learn history
April 1	upload pictures to website
April 8	research information
April 15	learn more positions
April 22	find out WHY yoga is helpful
April 29	conclude website intros
May 7 (Final 20% Friday)	check everything

Product

What is the actual product you will show this spring. This project may be made of atoms or bits, but you must have something to show. I’m not interested seeing a bunch of great ideas at the end of the year. I want to see things. I will show pictures and statistics and my finished blog.

Reality Check

I am looking for moonshots here, but even moonshots need budgets. What equipment are you going to need? What other capital expenditures do you anticipate, and how will you meet them? I will need a camera but Bailey will probably be taking my pictures.

Conclusion

Wrap it up. Why are you fired up about this project? Inspire us to support you, and give us a great reason to approve your project. I have always wanted to learn to do yoga and there are lots of things that yoga helps you to accomplish.

             Today I completed my first lesson. I learned some of the foundation poses in a twenty four minute sequence. I learned the easy pose, cat cow stretches to warm and lubricate the spine, the plank pose, the cobra pose, downward facing dog pose, and lastly the mountain pose. It was a lot more different than I thought it would be. I definitely learned more than I expected I would and it was more complex too. What scares me is that I have only completed the first lesson and I have twelve more to go. If you haven't already picked up, once I have finished all the thirteen lessons, I will have gone through a full Hatha Yoga class. Maybe even after I've learned everything for this type of yoga, I can move on to a different branch of yoga! Below is a picture from the lesson:)

 For my 20% time project I am going to learn Hatha Yoga. Yoga has eight limbs and I am going to start with the easiest and least complex limb, which is Hatha Yoga. Hatha Yoga is gentle and focuses on breathing. This type of Yoga is the building block to other types of harder yoga, and it is also the most modern. When I do this yoga, the goal I want to achieve is the balance between the body and the mind, according to certain websites I have looked at. Every weekend I will complete two days from an online yoga class. I am excited to begin the online classes, but also a little bit nervous because I've never tried to do yoga before. By tomorrow I hope to have my first official entry in! Overall, my goal for this project is to complete all of the lessons off of this website: https://www.ekhartyoga.com/programs/hatha-yoga-for-beginners/your-classes The website gives a really good description of Hatha Yoga: https://www.ekhartyoga.com/everything-yoga/yoga-styles/hatha-yoga