Margarethe the yoga instructor
by Hamlet


Margarethe stood in the modernised gym at Belmarsh prison ready for the
first prisoners to arrive for Her first Yoga class that She had ever taught in
England. She looked so muscular and so impressive ready to strike fear into
Her pupils to teach them that She was the Boss the Instructor and Health
Ranger whose every word had to be obeyed. She wore a skin tight shiny black
lycra leotard that exposed Her huge breasts. She also wore tight leather
gloves that were fingerless so that She could expose Her long razor sharp
nails.She wore short calf length boots with 6### heels.

At Her side She carried a long leather crop. This would be used by Her not
only for protection but also to discipline any unruly or awkward pupils. She
also carried a pair of steel handcuffs to restrain any pupil who wanted to
escape from the Session or who tried to become unruly in the group. She was
sure these prisoners would try something on as the last thing they wanted was
a Yoga Session as She was sure they knew nothing about Yoga, hated any type of
physical exercise and even more loathed being taught by a f------g woman. If
things really became difficult in the session then She was quite prepared to
use Her Gym Kata skills and was quite sure She was capable of beating any
prisoner who caused trouble absolutely senseless.

She had stayed the night before in the staff quarters of the prison having a
small flat of Her own having just arrived the day before from Norseland Her
home Nation.On the plane journey She had read all about the notorious prison.


  Belmarsh became operational as a prison in April 1991, and was   a local prison holding remand and sentenced male prisoners, primarily serving the Central Criminal Court and magistrates### Courts in SE London and Crown and Magistrates### Courts in SW Essex. Belmarsh has a dual role and also holds Category ###A### prisoners. It has a mixture of approximately 60% multi-occupancy cells and 40% single cells, distributed across four, three storey, residential units; each with three spurs of 42 cells.


It was  a local prison but combined those functions with those of a high security establishment and also held  'A' cat. prisoners. It primarily served the Central Criminal Court and Magistrates### Courts in South East London and parts of Essex, as well as holding high security risk prisoners on remand and awaiting trial.

She had woken up feeling quite nervous as She had never been out of Norseland
in Her life and what was more all Her clients had come to Her wanting to learn
Yoga not because they were being forced to learn it whether they liked it or
not like these prisoners .She realised that these prisoners would be very
resentful towards Her and would refuse to co operate with Her at all
costs.Still She was an expert Yoga Instructor having received a PhD in Yoga
and Fitness from the University of Varense. Yoga itself had given Her such
self confidence as well as enormousy increasing Her already great physical
strength.

Yoga had grown enormously in Her Nation and was nearly surpassing Aerobics as
the National sport. She had extensively studied Yoga and realised that it had
conrtibuted so much to changing Her life as well as vastly improving Her
health that had changed from being very good so much so that it could be
described as excellent now.Her muscles and strength had grown now every year
until She really was a magnificent sight!

She was actually a practioiner of the physical side of Yoga called Hatha Yoga.

Hatha Yoga also known as Hatha Vidya, is a particular system of Yoga
instituted by Yogi Swatmarama, a sage of 15th century India, and compiler of
the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. In this treatise Swatmarama introduces Hatha Yoga as
'a stairway to the heights of Raja Yoga', thus a preparatory stage of physical
purification that renders the body fit for the practise of higher meditation.
This practise is called 'shatkarma'. The word Hatha is a compound of the words
Ha and Tha meaning sun and moon and refers to the principal nadis (energy
channels) of the body that must be fully operational to attain a state of
'dhyana' or 'samadhi'. In other respects Hatha Yoga follows the same
principles as the Raja Yoga including moral restraint yama and spiritual
observances called 'niyama'. Hatha Yoga is what most people in the West
associate with the word "Yoga" and is practiced for mental and physical health
throughout the West.

She looked once more at the details prisoners She had to teach Yoga too. What
a repusive bunch they were too! She would be assigned a class of the six most
dangerous and violent prisoners They were a group made up of two murderers,
two rapists .one who was convicted of serious racial harassment of an Asian
family and a dangerous paedophile and child molester. Her Mission was not just
to lick them into shape by putting them all through the most gruelling
exercise but also to punish them by putting them through the most agonising
physical endurance She could think of. The time had come for the class to
start .There was a knock on the door of the gym. The door opened as the group
were led in by a prison warden. They really were a vile bunch She thought fat
,overweight, full of scars on therir faces.their expressions conveyed such
resentment as if Yoga was the very last thing on earth that they wanted to do!
They all looked as if they had never taken a day's exercise in their whole
lives! God how would She cope with this bunch!!

She was soon left all alone with all six of them.They looked at Her with a
mixture of hate and resentment as if being taught Yoga by a woman especially a
'bleedin foreigner' was the last thing on Earth they wanted to do.

She stood right in front flexing Her huge rippling muscles and exposing Her
superior height to all of them. She wanted to assert Her authority from the
very start. Underneath they were all really intimidated as being criminals
they were really complete cowards.

'Right let's get started. My name is Margarethe Fasgaard  and I come from a Nation
you've probably never heard of called Norseland.I'm here to put you through a
two hour Yoga Session at the end of which you will be aching all over.The
Sessions will be going on until I decide you've had enough.'

'You all look in a terrrible state physically and it's My intention to whip
you all into shape whatever it takes. Of course none of you will ever be as
fit or as muscular as Me but you will look slighty better than you do now as
you could not really look any worse!'

'We'll start with a few basic rules before the Session starts.'

'First of all you will all address Me as Ms Fasgaard which you probably won't
be able to pronounce.'

'Secondly you wll do exactly as I order you or you wll get this crop across
your fat arses!'

'Thirdly you will only speak to Me when you are spoken to.''

We will start with the basic asanas 'Asana is Sanskrit for "seat". The plural
is used to describe Yoga postures; "seat" in this context refers not only to
the physical position of the body, but to the position of the spirit in
relation to divinity. This idea is often referred to as the "one seat", by
yogis and Buddhists alike' 'Although "asana" originally referred to sitting
meditation, its scope has evolved over centuries to cover a great variety of
body postures. These postures have their roots in devotion and health, but
ultimately all are intended to lead back to the possibility of sitting more
comfortably in meditation.'

'You wiil now lie on your backs. We will start with the 'Corpse Pose!

'GET ON THE FLOOR ON YOUR BACKS NOW!!!' 

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