Cheddar's own Shannon LaNier finds his Zen with a meditative workout at The Class fitness center in New York City. 

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Wake Up With Cheddar

On the Scene: Working Out and Finding Zen in 'The Class' 

Hi, everyone. Welcome back to wake up, Pam Baker, Pacho. I'm at a, a lot of people are looking for new ways to stay in shape, find their inner zen on our very own channel has discovered just the place for that at the class in New York City. Hey, Shannon. Hey there. That's right. This is a whole new class called the class and it's in New York City where we are working out with Linda Lobs here and she has me burning because they continue doing one move for an entire song and my legs are on fire. So how about we stop for a second so I can ask you a little bit more about this class. I mean, the class has been endorsed by tons of celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow, Emma Stone. What is the class? Thank you, Shannon. The class is a method that blends cardio strength training, embodied movement and mindfulness. So not only are we working out but working inward as well? Ok. So this is using meditation, mindfulness, cardio strength training all in one class. How do you incorporate so many things without disrupting the flow of the class? Great question. So as we say in one movement per song, we know we're going, we set you up, we give you aligning cues and considerations and then you know that you're there, you know, you're in the squat. So then we layer in the mindfulness. What are you noticing about your breath? What are you noticing about your body? What's shifting? What's changing to really help bring you more clarity and awareness around your mental and emotional states as well. It almost makes it easier. So you don't have to focus on doing 20 workout or 20 different exercises. You can just focus on one exercise and then on whatever you're telling us to focus on, right? The mindfulness stuff. Right. Absolutely. It's a well rounded practice. So show us a move as an example. Then what will we be doing during the class? So we do a Jack and clear a lot, which is a jumping jack. You might be familiar with it. The only difference here is that we'll reach the arms up and then we'll reach them forward and we're gonna keep doing this movement. And then a lot of times what also makes us unique here in the class is that we bring in sound. So I'm gonna start to bring in sound and I'm gonna bring me in too. Ha ha. I'm like that. So you do this the entire time during a whole four minute song? Yes. And what will we be thinking about or doing besides the be that while we're doing this. So the great thing is, is that we get to quiet the mind. So it's less thinking we know where we're going. So that's when we get to drop in deeper into the body. So do I close my eyes? Do I just meditate? What do you want? Notice? What are you noticing? Let me see. Ok, let me quiet my mind. I noticed that I'm doing this a lot and I'm like, oh, I'm getting tired just doing this. Are there any sensations in your body and where my legs, my arms, I'm feeling it and I do feel the relaxation aspect because the music's going. But I'm also talking. So doing a normal class. If I'm doing this, I guess I wouldn't be doing jumping Jackson's wrong. It's like, ok, count of 12 and then you're done, you're done. But you're like going long on this. How many different exercise movements would you do in a typical class? You can do anywhere from 6 to 10, 6 to 10 movements, all different, targeting different muscles, muscle groups. Would you say you burn more calories doing this way or what? What is that? Strengthening your muscles, increasing your endurance and also gaining more awareness around your mental and emotional states? So how is that a benefit to people to be able to take this class that distinguishes it from other class where we're just going hard, the whole class, we're running, then we're jumping all that stuff. Great question. I think for us it's what you practice and what you learn on the mat. You can actually take off of the mat and apply that into your day to day. I think it's just so different for so many people because they're used to, you know, doing this and meditating like this opposed to meditating. Wow. I'm jumping a moving meditation. OK. I like it. We're gonna do more of this moving meditation. Let's get back to our, we're gonna do a little bit more of this and we're gonna come back. We're out here live in about 30 minutes to show you some new moves with the class. So stay tuned for that guys. Yeah, I feel like I'm losing calories just watching that. That can wait to see how the rest of the class goes later. Thank you.