Yoga Personality - 3SmartCubes.com

1. How much of a workout do you expect from a yoga class?

If there isn't a puddle on my mat, I feel like I've been cheated.
I don't mind hard work, but I'm more interested in learning how to use my body in specific and increasingly subtle actions than in cardiovascular challenge.
I need to be very careful because of my injured back (substitute your medical issue: strained knee, arthritis, rotator-cuff injury, heart condition, etc.).
Too much exertion disturbs my meditative focus. And I think maybe I'm allergic to sweat.

2. When you were a kid, what were your favorite play activities?

Sports, climbing the highest tree in the neighborhood, riding my bike motocross-style through the woodsâanything active and maybe challenging enough to be a little scary.
I loved complicated activitiesâballet, dressage, gymnasticsâand detail-oriented hobbies like coin and butterfly collecting. I created complex buildings with blocks, Tinkertoys, and Legos.
I rescued wounded birds, adopted stray dogs, was fascinated when I broke my arm, enjoyed nursing my brother when he was sick.
I liked reading poetry, sitting alone in my quiet place in the garden or the woods or a park, and going to my church/synagogue/mosque to pray.

3. What's your current favorite weekend outfit?

I usually just grab my cleanest T-shirt and sweats or shorts. Unless maybe you count gear like hiking boots, ski jackets, running shoes, and flotation vests?
Depends what I'm up to, but my clothes match the occasion: not too flashy, well-coordinated, with appropriate accessories.
Whatever fits well over my back brace.
Crystal pendants, Save the Whales T-shirt, Guatemalan serape (or saffron robe accessorized with begging bowl, or maybe sackcloth and ashes).

4. You're miles from nowhere in the middle of a pristine meadow. Suddenly the ground starts to shake, you hear pounding hooves, and you realize you're being charged by an enraged bull. Do you:

Grasp its horns and flip over its back, like an ancient Minoan bull dancer? a
Coolly assess its speed and the distance to the nearest fence, then try to dodge the bull and fake it toward the other side of the field so you might be able to eventually escape?
Try to fend it off with a crutch? You'd love to be up to a long hike sometime soon.
Give thanks that you've had a good life, even if you're about to be trampled to death? Whatever happens, you know it's all part of some grand plan furthering the upward evolution of the universe.

5. Your heroes include:

Mia Hamm, Evel Knievel, Wayne Gretsky, Tara Lipinski.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, James Watson, and Francis Crick. b
Albert Schweitzer, Florence Nightingale, Andrew Weil, John Bradshaw.
Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus Christ, Mother Teresa, Rainer Maria Rilke, Lao Tzu, Rumi, St. John of the Cross.

6. If you were going to chuck it all for your dream job, you might become:

An Olympic gymnast, bungee jumper, professional triathlete, X-Games snowboarder.
Engineer, research scientist, architect, physical therapist.
Psychotherapist, social worker, family doctor.
Nun, priest, rabbi, monk, spirit channel for the Pleiadian masters.

7. You receive an unexpected windfall that finally allows you to buy your dream house/travel around the world/buy studio time so your band can cut a record. You and your spouse celebrate with a few too many glasses of champagne. In your yoga practice the next morning you:

Crank the intensity of your asanas up a notch to make sure you sweat it all out of your system.
Experiment with liver-strengthening asana sequences and study which one best relieves your aching head and querulous stomach.
Berate yourself for breaking your strict macrobiotic diet.
Nope. Couldn't happen. You would never sully the temple of your body with intoxicants.

8. If your yoga teacher uncharacteristically started her yoga class with a 45-minute meditation, you would:

Struggle valiantly to sit still while you fantasize about advanced arm balances.
Attempt to concentrate on your breath, but find yourself analyzing her possible motives and intentions.
Prop yourself up with mountains of blankets and bolsters, glad for the time to baby your sore body.
Feel right at home. Meditation is always part of your practice, along with prayer and chanting.