Despite the fact that Bea was starting to get frustrated, she managed a small quirk of a smile at Leah’s words. “I’ll try to remember that.” And possibly she would need to work at refocusing better; she never had been very good with the mental/zen thing, but she hadn’t ever made a good, long attempt at perfecting it either. Now that she thought about it, it probably would have helped with some of her former co-workers. Divas that they had all been.
It really was a good thing that Bea was used to scrutiny and didn’t embarrass easily, otherwise she would have become self-conscious at the way that Leah watched her movements. She didn’t particularly like the feeling of being picked apart, but even she could tell her positions weren’t right and she’d rather they be corrected than ignored. It would be a pretty pathetic instructor that wouldn’t address issues.
Bea smothered her laugh so it wouldn’t disrupt the rest of the class, though the action disrupted her already precarious position, and it took planting her feet wider to keep her mostly upright. “Oh yeah, absolutely consoling. Really, there’s nothing like knowing you’re not the absolute worst someone has seen. Just probably top five.” She could only hope that Leah caught on to her dry humor, since she really didn’t want to seem like she was complaining. She had just opened her mouth to ask if the new pose would be something less difficult when the other woman repositioned her own body into what she called the Tree Pose. Leah made the movement look so graceful and easy too, but Bea doubted that it really was. Most instructors made things look easy.
So with a deep breath she straightened back up, mentally preparing herself for another frustrating few minutes with the new pose. She grimaced when she shifted to plant her foot on her thigh and it slipped on the smooth fabric of the yoga pants she’d managed to find stashed away with her other things. At least she could count small favors, she hadn’t ended up on her ass on the floor; score one for decent reflexes. But it did take her another few moments to try the movement again.
“Out of curiosity, you aren’t secretly filming this class so you have something to watch when you need a good laugh?” She breathed a sigh of relief when her foot didn’t slip, and she only had to throw an arm out a little bit for balance before settling into the pose.