Feature 6

Sit Back and Relax: Yoga

Alyssa Salamin | Staff Writer

Namaste, a word you’ve probably heard
before, is used as a respectful greeting pulled
from Indian culture. Namaste is also used com-
monly here at Huron High School, specifically
in Huron’s new yoga class. Teacher Sara Smigell
has been instructing physical education and
health at Huron for three years, and now she is
taking a personal practice of hers and turning
it into an enjoyable class for students to learn
from: Yoga class.
“I used to teach in Farmington,” Smigell
said. “All the schools there had yoga, and I saw
all the benefits that the students had from the
classes. I said [to Huron administration], ‘I’ll
teach it, let’s bring it here.’”
Smigell has been practicing yoga for 18
years and is a certified yoga practitioner. She
enjoys yoga and is excited to be teaching it to
the students at Huron. Yoga has been a class at
Huron for two years now and has been growing
more popular among Huron students.
“I took yoga because I wanted a class
this semester that could help me relax and not
add stress to my life,” junior Vivian Barrett said.
Barrett, along with multiple other yoga
students, chose yoga because it is a class that you
can truly relax in and stay stress free. Not only
was it an obvious choice for relaxation, but some
students chose yoga to help with their physical
abilities.
“I feel like [yoga] would help during
basketball season,” junior Reeya Patel said.
“With all the [basketball] workouts and getting
sore, [yoga] helps with the stretching. Also, it’s a
stress reliever.”
Smigell gives one pretest in the begin-
ning of each yoga course, the flexibility test. One
of the major skills that is improved throughout
the course is flexibility.
“[Yoga] is going to help not just the
physical body, but the mental and emotional
side as well, creating that balance,” Smigell said.
“Uniting it all together in one experience.”
Yoga can also help with one’s mental
health. Senior Shelby Harris is taking Yoga for
the first time. Since joining she has enjoyed the
class and can see how it improves her life in
many ways.
“[Yoga] keeps me so mentally healthy
for the rest for the day,” Harris said. “I would
definitely recommend [this class] to other stu-
dents. It’s such a peaceful experience. It’s literally
an hour of focusing on YOU, and I think that
with all these classes, sometimes what we need it
to have ME time.”

Turning something simple into a success:

Jack Harrison | Staff Writer though, but typically more difficult
Senior Steven Chet-
tleburgh is highly considering
studying business in college. But
he isn’t just taking economics
classes at Huron or watching Shark
Tank marathons every night. He’s
actually running a business.
Chettleburgh re-
members pulling weeds and
raking leaves for his neigh-
bors when he was just a
fourth grader. These were
simple tasks, but it would
soon become a full time
service including ad-
vanced lawn care
and snow shovel-
ling.
“I’m
interested
in business
because it
takes a variety
of different
skills and
allows you
to do some- thing new every
single day,” Chettleburgh said.
Today his business,
Steven’s Garden Service, services
neighborhoods across Ann Arbor.
In fact, he even employs three
others. Chettleburgh’s job consists
of managing his employees, which
includes coordinating their work
locations, tasks and dates. Chettle-
burgh still does work
moved away and he became con- pursuit of a career. Chettleburgh promotes
tasks that his employees are not nected to Chettleburgh. “Anyone can do business, his company through Next Door,
trained for. Pulling out weeds on Penoyar had no and that’s what’s so great about which includes specific home care
a large property would be a task doubts about having an employ- it; you don’t have to have a 4.0 services for neighborhoods. He
for his employees, whereas er who actually attends his high GPA or even go to college and be also relies on referrals and neigh-
planting would school. However, academics and successful,” he said. “It’s one of borhood connections.
be in his work balancing was more of a the only professions with an even Chettleburgh plans to
realm. concern. playing field.” leave Ann Arbor for college, but he
“It’s been tough balancing Chettleburgh explained hopes to rebuild a similar business
work and school,” Penoyar said. that summer time is the most suc- in college.
“Sometimes I plan to stay after cessful season for his business, due In his free time, he enjoys
school in order to workout, to the flexibility he has and de- playing his clarinet and, occasion-
but then I have a job pop mand for services. Specifically, he ally, he’ll watch a Shark Tank epi-
up that I have to do mentioned he and his employees sode, observing how entrepreneurs
instead.” made approximately 200 dollars make their pitches.
Chettleburgh each every week. To entrepreneurs with
enjoys doing this But during the school aspirations, especially other high
work, as he is year, it’s difficult to balance work school students, he suggests to
able to put into and school. keep a balance between education
use what he “The biggest challenge is and work, only doing what you
has learned in having it fit in with everything else can.
business man- because a customer may want a “Start with a small scale
agement job done a certain day, and they business that’s manageable and
courses. don’t realize you have homework then work your way up,” he added.
He em- for every class,” Chettleburgh said. “A lot of times people want to quit
pha- sized that He acknowledges that because they fail at something, but
involve- ment in his employees, who are also high the more you fail, the more likely it
service is critical to understand- school students, work hourly and is that you will find success.”
ing what the profession entails decide which tasks to undertake.
Ju- and if it fits one’s interest. Chettleburgh explained that his
nior Nathan “Managing people and do- experience with his business
Penoyar, one of ing the actual work you’re provid- has taught him to set reasonable
Chettle- burghs ing to people cannot be achieved expectations in not just business
employees, began through reading a textbook,” oriented parts of life.
mowing his neighbor’s Chettleburgh said. The real learning has come
lawns as a middle Chettleburgh also thinks from the skills required to manage
school student. the profession caters to any- others.
Several of Penoyer’s one interested and creates a fair “There are tons of people
cus- tomers path for those in interested in business, but they
do not know if they can manage
people. Managing and doing work
is quite different,” he added. Senior Steven Chettleburgh smiling in
his Grden Service shirt.

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