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Second Reading
Two additional inquiry questions that I have are:

1. Where can somebody learn how to do yoga?
2. How could I convince people in my community to try yoga?

Summarize

The most important points of the reading were:

I learned that there are a lot of ways to help people with things like depression
and anxiety. Yoga has been around for a very long time, and it sounds like it can
really help. The author feels much better about her life because of yoga.

Integrate

The relationship between the new information and my previous knowledge and experience is:

School is hard sometimes and there was something somebody in the article said
that I‛m going to think about more. Judith Hanson Lasatar, a Ph.D, said, “When
you‛re paying attention, you‛re more in touch with your thoughts and feelings as
they arise in the moment, which is half the battle of resolving them.”
I‛m going to try to do that. And I‛m going to learn more about yoga.

Assessment of material and effort

I suggest the author make the following change(s) to the material or style of writing (explaining why):

I know the writer was writing this for people who do yoga, so she didn‛t explain
everything for someone like me. Maybe she could have explained things a little
more.

Actual time (minutes) spent reading: About 40 minutes instead of 60 (I kind of skimmed some parts).

The following affected (positively or negatively) the quality of my reading performance:

There were lots of different sections and explanations, and I didn‛t know what to
read first. I didn‛t know some of the vocabulary or too much about yoga.
I really liked the main story about the writer getting over her anxiety, though. I‛m
glad she started with that.

Instructor Strengths: Action plan: You have some definite ideas how to apply what you’ve learned to help
Feedback you resolve anxiety in your own life.
Areas for
Improvement: Vocabulary usage: You identified several key terms related to yoga; build your
Insights: understanding of these by attempting to use them in your other written responses.

Addition of visuals: Yoga is more about body and spirit than words and concepts; you
can enrich a reading log by adding another page with pictures of yoga positions and
diagrams about different levels of consciousness.

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