Relaxing RCC
Hannah Grantz
Issue date: 10/23/09 Section: Life & Times
Most students' initial impression of Rollins College comes while fully engaged in their RCC class.
Aspen Fox, a student coordinator with Rollins Explorations, said that "RCC stands for Rollins College Conference. It is a program designed to offer first-year students a variety of interesting topic courses to take during their first semester at Rollins."
Professor of English Lezlie Laws, founder of the Yoga, Writing, and Meditation RCC, said that her class goal is to give her students not just "comfort with their academic experience, but more of a handle on their whole lives."
Dr. Laws is currently working on a study to prove that practicing yoga helps first-year students to lower the high amount of anxiety and stress that comes with everyone's first year of college. For 50 minutes, three times a week, they are able to relax and be at peace with themselves, without thinking about homework, projects, deadlines, friends, sports, or work. All of the yoga students feel that practicing yoga helps them to regroup and gain more control over their lives.
After a yoga class with Dr. Laws and College Park Yoga instructor, Theresa Curameng, they feel more relaxed and focused as the day progresses.
By practicing yoga, students are given the ability to see that, just by slowing down and taking time for themselves, they can have more control than they ever thought possible.
Aspen Fox, a student coordinator with Rollins Explorations, said that "RCC stands for Rollins College Conference. It is a program designed to offer first-year students a variety of interesting topic courses to take during their first semester at Rollins."
Professor of English Lezlie Laws, founder of the Yoga, Writing, and Meditation RCC, said that her class goal is to give her students not just "comfort with their academic experience, but more of a handle on their whole lives."
Dr. Laws is currently working on a study to prove that practicing yoga helps first-year students to lower the high amount of anxiety and stress that comes with everyone's first year of college. For 50 minutes, three times a week, they are able to relax and be at peace with themselves, without thinking about homework, projects, deadlines, friends, sports, or work. All of the yoga students feel that practicing yoga helps them to regroup and gain more control over their lives.
After a yoga class with Dr. Laws and College Park Yoga instructor, Theresa Curameng, they feel more relaxed and focused as the day progresses.
By practicing yoga, students are given the ability to see that, just by slowing down and taking time for themselves, they can have more control than they ever thought possible.
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