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As most absurd stories start, it happened in Florida. (Apologies to the Sunshine State, but you understand how you might be.) On most Saturday mornings, Anamargret Sanchez teaches an out of doors yoga practice in Miami’s Legion Park. The category is popular—it often has greater than 120 attendees. But in her 14 years of teaching yoga within the park, Sanchez had never had an unwelcome creature disrupt her serene environment—until a category earlier this month.
On January 7, as everyone moved into Savasana, the ultimate resting posture at the top of sophistication, a big iguana fell from a tree onto the face of one in all her students. And the very strange—and completely wild—incident was captured on film since Sanchez streamed the category on her Instagram account.
Within the video, the moment where Sanchez realizes something is amiss is clear. As she later explained, Sanchez was leading students into that restful state when she heard a thump. “I look to my right, and I see an iguana scampering up the tree, so within the video, first, I’m laughing because ‘Oh cute, there’s the iguana,’ after which I look again, and I see this man holding his face and blood,” she says.
After she realized what was unfolding, she says she ran off camera to grab a towel for him. Nearby paramedics provided medical attention.
The coed, Michael, experienced excruciating pain, the Miami Latest Times reported. (He declined to offer his full name for privacy and fame concerns.) I mean, an iguana in your face. Initially, Michael thought it could have been a falling coconut, he told the Miami Latest Times. Unfortunately, it was not.
But, how exactly, does an iguana fall from a tree? Apparently, it stemmed from an iguana fight. (Yes, an iguana fight.) Sanchez says participants later told her they’d spotted two iguanas battling, when one in all the creatures suddenly fell out of the tree—and onto the face of the scholar.
Sanchez reports that Michael made a robust recovery after the encounter and returned to her class the next week after getting an all-clear from his doctor.
Sanchez plans to proceed teaching yoga within the park. However the iguanas have definitely modified the tenor of the local people class. “Iguanas have put us on the map, this community that I am keen on” she says. It also seems as if the dueling iguanas may benefit from the practice, as well. Some ahisma, perhaps?