#but naturally yj makes it his mission to level it up as much as possible ((to keep up w yh shhh))

[yersina]

For your s class asks, au where Yoojin used to pet sit for his neighbours pets for some extra cash whenever he doesn’t have a job to do. When he awakens, he ended up with an animal taming ability, making him a legit monster tamer (would be funny if it worked with high ranked monsters as well)

When Yoojin sees the terrifying, pterodactyl-like monster heading for his boss’s van, he doesn’t stop to think. Without a single thought in his head other than desperate panic and an overwhelming desire for Lee Soojin and Im Namgi to stay alive, he whistles sharply, the way he does when he’s first starting to train a dog, and shouts, “Stop!” with as much confidence and sternness as he can muster.

Later, he’ll clutch his head and wonder why the fuck he thought this would work, because under any normal circumstances it shouldn’t have. The monster should’ve devoured them both. Yoojin should’ve died with them. But he stands there now, hands shaking with adrenaline and throat still aching with his yell, and watches the monster pause and turn around with a combination of terror and relief.

“B… back away from them,” he adds, since the monster doesn’t seem like it’s on the offensive anymore, and to his utter shock, it does. It climbs off of the car, ignoring the startled yelps of the people within, and instead walks towards Yoojin. “Oh, fuck.”

It slowly creeps forward, using claws on its wings and its short hind legs to unsettlingly and jerkily crawl along the ground, until its giant, sharp beak that was until only a second ago poised to dive into his boss’s car is only an arms-length away. At this distance, Yoojin can see its dark eyes, clear and focused on Yoojin, and how its head is covered in short, iridescent black feathers that almost look like scales. It’d be beautiful, if not for the needle-sharp teeth that poke out of its beak.

“What,” he croaks quietly, not daring to move. There’s a lesson about scaring away wildlife blaring in the back of his brain, but none of them hold a candle to the reality of being stared at by a creature that could undoubtedly kill him with half a thought.

It makes a strange noise in its throat, something between a chirp, click, and purr. It sounds… friendly, bizarrely enough, and the creature doesn’t look like it’s about to rip his head from his shoulders, but Yoojin doesn’t trust that for a single second. He doesn’t dare move.

The moment—if it could even be called a moment, rather than a pause before the creature could eat Yoojin for interrupting its previous meal—is shattered by the ear-piercing cry of another pterodactyl creature. His eyes instinctively go for the new threat, which is flying towards them with single-minded focus, before he remembers that he shouldn’t take his eyes off the thing that could kill him right now.

Instead of having a chunk taken out of him like he expects, though, the creature in front of him whips its head around and lets out one of those same ear-piercing cries and lunges for the other creature. Yoojin has to raise an arm against the dust and gravel that’s inadvertently flung into his face, but when he squints his eyes open again, the first flying creature has already tackled the second one full force and is obviously trying to gouge it in two.

Are they fighting over who gets to eat us…? Yoojin spends a moment staring in disbelief, before he remembers Lee Soojin and Im Namgi all at once and sprints towards the overturned van.

“Boss!” he yells, and is overwhelmingly thankful for the way Lee Soojin immediately pops her head out of the window and waves that she’s okay. “Do you need help?”

“I think we’ll be okay as long as nothing else comes at us!” True to word, she begins hauling herself out of the window and turns to grab her husband as soon as she’s free. Yoojin hurries over to help them both down, and they all duck for cover as soon as they can get their bearings.

“What do you think those are?” Im Namgi asks shakily, looking out at the scene of destruction laid before them through the window of the bank they’re taking cover in. There are other people in here too, but most of them are huddled as far from the windows as they can, apart from the security guard who’d let them through the doors. “They’re not like any animals I’ve ever seen.”

“They look like dinosaurs,” Yoojin offers, “but that doesn’t make sense either.”

“Who cares what they are,” Lee Soojin groans, sliding down the wall and staring up at the ceiling in despair. “They’re still wreaking havoc either way.”

Yoojin turns to join her, but a flash of blue in the corner of his eye catches his attention first. It’s a glowing blue screen hovering in the air, reminiscent of a game window.

[The Awakening of Han Yoojin has been registered.]

Once Yoojin reads that window, another pops up.

[Awakened Han Yoojin

Level 1

Stamina: 6 | Strength: 4 | Agility: 5 | Spirit: 4 | Mana: 2

Titles — Caregiver (S), Monster Tamer (A)

Caregiver additional skills…

Monster Tamer additional skills…

Skills

Strength Up (E): Strength of the target + 5% (Immediate effect, similar and/or identical skills cannot overlap), duration 30 minutes

Agility Up (E): Agility of target + 5% (Immediate effect, similarity and/or identical skills cannot overlap), duration 30 minutes]

Yoojin has to sit down.

“Hey,” he says to Lee Soojin once he’s taken a deep breath. “Is there anything strange in the air right now?”

She raises a sardonic eyebrow. “You mean other than the dinosaur creatures?”

“No, inside the bank.”

She gives him a concerned look, but she gamely gives the entire bank a passing glance. By the time her eyes settled back on Yoojin, she should’ve seen the window. “There’s nothing out of the ordinary here. Yoojin-ah, are you okay?”

“Other than the dinosaur creatures?” he jokes weakly and earns himself a snort. “I’m fine.”

So he’s the only one who can see the windows. He settles back against the wall and takes another look at… whatever the windows are supposed to be. As he scrolls through the information, careful not to be too obvious about his movements, he’s overwhelmingly reminded of video games and fantasy stories. Except—

Except.

This is real life. If his concentration wavers even a little, the screams of people outside are all too audible. There’s the sound of crunching glass, the shriek of metal, the frantic pounding of feet. This is not a video game, and yet somehow Yoojin is a player.

What is happening?

“Oh my god,” someone whimpers from across the room. “There—it’s here. Why is it looking at us? The rest of them have ignored the insides of buildings.”

Yoojin scrambles back from where his back was pressed against the front-facing wall, followed closely by Lee Soojin and Im Namgi and anyone else who’d taken shelter at the entrance. Right there, crouched over the space Yoojin had just been sitting, is one of the feathery flying monsters, peering intently through the glass.

“It’s not attacking us,” someone else whispers. “Maybe if we all stay quiet and still, it’ll go away?”

The creature doesn’t move, and neither does anyone else in the room. Yoojin’s eyes catch on a series of scratches down the creature’s flank, like something had turned a set of sharp claws against it. Like… like another one of those flying creatures.

[Current targets: Agile Devil Pterosaur (C-Rank)], the blue window had said when he’d clicked on the monster tamer title. Maybe that would explain why the first dinosaur that had attacked them had turned on its own kind? Maybe it was something Yoojin did? Is this what the taming skill does?

Without thinking, Yoojin takes a step forward and has his wrist caught by Lee Soojin before he can move any farther. “What are you doing?!” she hisses, eyes wide in fear. “Stay here!”

“I think it’ll be okay,” he reassures, and curses himself for the hesitation that’s audible in his voice. “I… I think it’s here for me.”

“What does that mean?” she demands. Yoojin tugs on her grip until she lets him go, and she curses. “Yoojin, you’re not allowed to sacrifice yourself for us or whatever harebrained scheme you’ve got cooked up! It’ll just come after us next!”

Yoojin breathes out a laugh. “Don’t worry, I don’t think that’s what will happen.” And then, before he meets any other resistance, he strides to the door and slips outside.

It’s loud. Much louder than what he was able to hear inside the bank, and he’d barely been able to ignore it while he was in there. There’s a flying dinosaur creature perched on a car not far from where he’s standing, too far for it to notice him stepping outside but easily within swooping distance. He gulps.

The flying creature—Agile Devil Pterosaur, or whatever it’s called—stays shockingly docile as he closes the door behind him and they both size each other up. It cocks its head when Yoojin fails to do anything other than stare at it, and lets out one of those clicky chirp-purrs.

“Hi.” Yoojin’s voice cracks in the middle of the word and he has to cough awkwardly. “You… Do you understand me?” It clicks its teeth together at that, which would be encouraging if it weren’t so threatening. “Right…”

As if sensing his hesitation, the pterosaur slowly bows forward until it fits the tip of its beak under Yoojin’s hand. This time, the purr is more pronounced, and in combination with the gesture and the way Yoojin can spot its tail wagging slowly back and forth, he has a fairly good idea of what it means.

Oh god, he thinks faintly, I have a pet dinosaur?

“Okay,” he says, because there’s no amount of time in the world that would allow him to process all of this. “Okay.” Just—just pretend that it’s a dog. It’s a huge, feathery, murderous dog. Oh god.

The ground rumbles alarmingly, and Yoojin is forced to throw his arms forward for balance, inadvertently caught by the hulking form of the pterosaur. Further down the street, what looks to be a gigantic tree has split the road in two, cracking the pavement and throwing the sea of abandoned cars into disarray. When he looks more closely, there are people struggling in the branches, temporarily out of reach from the swarm of pterosaurs around the tree’s base but soon to be in danger once they figure it out.

Yoojin looks consideringly at his—his tamed monster? His pet? It looks back at him patiently, feathered tail snaking back and forth, and Yoojin makes a decision. “Let’s do this.”

He whistles, and the pterosaur visibly straightens to attention. “Let’s start by rescuing those people, okay?” He points at the people still clinging to the branches of the tree desperately. “Bring them back here when you’re done. Be gentle!”

The pterosaur lets out a shrill cry and takes off in the direction of the tree. Yoojin takes a moment to scan the street, looking for others that could use help. He doesn’t know what his stats mean, but until he can figure it out, he’ll be treating himself as the same squishy human he’s always been.

There’s a man to his right who’s punching the creatures with a speed and strength that can’t possibly be human, fist glowing red when he pauses to take a rest. There’s a teenager further down the street who weaves impossibly fast between the mess of wreckage around them, light and graceful on her feet as she escorts people to safety.

That’s who I can be, Yoojin thinks determinedly, and squares his shoulder as he spots the first two rescues dangling in the feet of his pterosaur, winging towards him slowly.

Come on, Han Yoojin. Let’s help people.

#robins-on-lea #sina writes #sctir #s classes that i raised #fanfiction #tamer au #hi I have so many thoughts abt this au #my brain completely hijacked this concept after I started writing #i think the monster taming skill/title is canon? i think yj mentions that there aren’t enough high rank tamers pre-reg iirc #which is why the caregiving title + skills are so valuable in comparison #but naturally yj makes it his mission to level it up as much as possible ((to keep up w yh shhh)) #speaking of yh #i think in this au yj and yh actually get along for much longer than canon pre-reg #but yj stays in dungeon break cleanup efforts bc he feels like that’s where he’ll be most useful #esp before organized dungeon clearing efforts become a thing #and he’s horrifically squishy if there isn’t anything protecting him #so yh is just constantly terrified that smth will go wrong and he doesn’t really trust any of yj’s tamed monsters #and yj interprets his hostility and reluctance as disapproval of what he’s choosing to do (instead of like clearing dungeons or smth) #so it’s more of an ideological split. maybe. #like I said I have a lot of thoughts akdndjendj #also yj names the pterosaur to be 공룡이 (공룡 = dinosaur) bc in this house we stan yj’s awful naming ability

[meditativeyoga]

Why More Western Doctors Are Now Prescribing Yoga Therapy

With a growing body of research study proving yoga's recovery positive aspects, it's no wonder a lot more physicians-- consisting of those with conventional Western training-- are suggesting this old technique to their individuals. Just what lags the trend, as well as will it help you feel a lot better? YJ investigates.

In a small exercise room with a handful of various other Navy veterans, David Rachford kept an eye out the window to see the fringed fallen leaves of a high royal hand tree wave softly in the cozy Southern The golden state wind. The calming sight relieved the challenging workout routine he was attempting for the very first time. It was merely a straightforward spin, Supta Matsyendrasana (Supine Spinal Twist)-- absolutely nothing like the extensive daily training he 'd done as a damage controlman on attack aircraft carrier-- however his legs rejected to work together, due to the agonizing nerve harm and also severe sciatica he 'd suffered as a result of a career-ending back injury. As an outpatient receiving discomfort-management treatment at the Veterans Management West Los Angeles Medical Center, Rachford was currently needed to attend this regular yoga physical-therapy course. It was the last area he had actually ever expected to locate himself.

"I believed yoga exercise was for slim, bendy, liberal, hippie vegetarians and also wealthy homemakers, not difficult, manly 'warrior' kinds," says the 44-year-old, currently an Internet developer in Santa Barbara, The golden state. "Yet during that time, I really felt quite damaged. I remained in a great deal of pain as well as open to anything that could help. I was depressed and terrified at the possibility of surgical procedure, as well as grieving the loss of my wellness and my self-image of being a fit 'challenging person.'" Rachford additionally stressed he would not have the ability to hold his own in a yoga exercise class. "I couldn't flex much or stand greater than a couple mins without assistance," he says.

A yoga exercise specialist led Rachford et cetera of the group via gentle stretching presents, urging them to repeat the straightforward activities in your home daily. He did, and also indeed, over the following couple of months, Rachford discovered his array of movement gradually increasing and his pain enhancing. "I became a lot more familiar with my breath, body, and experiences," he claims. "My yoga exercise technique became the base that restored my health, taking me from cigarette smoking, having hypertension, as well as being obese as well as pre-diabetic to being suited, active, as well as an image of health and wellness. I've lost 50 extra pounds, my blood pressure is regular, and also I could run and hike without discomfort."

Ancient Healing in a Modern Setting

In India, yoga masters have actually worked with pupils like Rachford for years, assisting them recover chronic disorders, often by advising particular positions. Here in the West, yoga exercise has only lately become a part of clinical treatment. Nonetheless, an expanding variety of medical professionals are looking to the ancient practice as a means to assist their patients feel much better. Yoga exercise treatment is currently acknowledged as a scientifically practical treatment, with well-known programs at significant medical facilities, such as The College of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Facility, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer cells Facility, Cleveland Clinic, as well as many others. In 2003, there were simply 5 yoga-therapy training programs in the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) data source. Today, there are even more compared to 130 globally, consisting of 24 strenuous multi-year programs recently certified by IAYT, with 20 more under testimonial. Baseding on a 2015 survey, most IAYT participants work in healthcare facility settings, while others work in outpatient centers or physical therapy, oncology, or rehabilitation departments (and in exclusive technique).

The medical world's enhanced approval of yoga therapy is partly due to a considerable body of scientific research study that now records yoga's tried and tested benefits for a variety of health and wellness conditions, including pain in the back, stress and anxiety, depression, and also sleeplessness, as well as its capacity to assist minimize risk variables for cardio condition and hypertension. Yoga exercise has also been documented as a method to reduce the adverse effects of cancer treatment.

"The size, quantity, as well as top quality of medical trials for yoga treatment are raising greatly, and also it's primarily occurred over the past five years," states longtime yoga researcher Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and also co-author of the Harvard Medical College Guide e-book Your Mind on Yoga. Actually, greater than 500 research documents on yoga treatment have actually been released in peer-reviewed journals, including the randomized, regulated, double-blind research studies that are modern medicine's gold specification, and also the area now has its first professional-level medical textbook, Concepts as well as Method of Yoga in Medical (Handspring Press, 2016), co-edited by Khalsa, Lorenzo Cohen, PhD, Shirley Telles, PhD, and also Yoga exercise Journal's clinical editor, Timothy McCall, MD. "The publication's magazine is a sign of just how much yoga and also yoga treatment have actually come," claims McCall.

Yoga therapy has actually expanded partially by piggybacking on yoga exercise's ever-increasing appeal. Baseding on the Centers for Disease Control and also Avoidance's National Health Job interview Study, in 2002 just 5 percent of the United States population actively exercised yoga exercise. By 2012, that number had actually nearly increased, getting to 9.5 percent. At the exact same time, more specialists believe yoga boosts their wellness: In 2004, only 5 percent of visitors checked by Yoga exercise Journal stated they did yoga exercise for health and wellness reasons, in this year's Yoga exercise Journal and also Yoga Partnership joint Yoga in America study, even more than HALF of all participants cited health as an incentive. Although moneying for yoga research remains moderate compared with funding for pharmaceutical study, it's expanding. In 2010, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer cells Center received greater than $4.5 million-- among the biggest yoga-related grants ever-- from the National Institutes of Wellness's National Cancer cells Institute to support a recurring research of the efficiency of yoga as part of a treatment program for women with breast cancer. Outcomes published up until now are encouraging: Breast-cancer clients who practice yoga exercise while going through radiation treatment have reduced degrees of anxiety hormonal agents and file less fatigue and better high quality of life.

The study on yoga as a helpful element of cancer cells treatment has actually expanded the most, says Khalsa. "These days, it's tough to discover a significant US cancer cells facility that does not have a yoga exercise program," he says. "People are requiring, and also investing more on, complementary medicine like acupuncture, chiropractic, massage, as well as yoga exercise."

What Is Yoga Therapy, Exactly?

For several yogis, just exercising yoga consistently enhances overall wellness and also stamina. Nonetheless, hectic vinyasa classes are not for every person, particularly those dealing with a health difficulty or injury. Yoga exercise therapy works as a secure alternative. Led by yoga exercise instructors that have actually gotten additional training to work with customers with numerous health conditions, the designs and also layouts differ extensively, ranging from chair yoga exercise in healthcare facilities and elder-care facilities to little, focused healing classes as well as individually sessions.

"In yoga exercise therapy, we work on individuals, not conditions," states McCall, a previous internist that now trains yoga exercise specialists with his wife, Eliana Moreira McCall, at their Top, New Jersey, yoga treatment. That's because individuals frequently have a number of, overlapping problems, he states: "As an example, we might function on back discomfort, yet the client likewise finishes up resting far better and also comes to be healthier." Some specialists concentrate on physical technicians, while others cause in Ayurvedic recovery concepts and factor in diet, mental wellness, and devoutness to create an all natural, tailored plan.

As a brand-new professional area, yoga therapy has only recently become much more recognized. Over the past 12 years, the IAYT has made major strides with its mission to establish yoga exercise as an appreciated as well as identified treatment in the West, from releasing a yearly peer-reviewed clinical journal to presenting at academic research seminars. With an NIH grant, the group has developed rigorous standards and is now recognizing training programs as well as starting to approve specialist graduates. "Our goal is a credentials that is appreciated not only by those steeped in the yoga tradition, however additionally by the several healthcare fields we operate in partnership with," claims John Kepner, IAYT's executive director.

Increasingly, yoga therapy is making invasions in traditional medical levels. At Manhattan Physical Medication as well as Rehabilitation in New York City, Loren Fishman, MD, writer of Healing Yoga exercise, regularly uses yoga exercise alongside standard therapies to treat scoliosis, potter's wheel belt disorder, and also various other neuromuscular issues. "Many doctors have actually come to understand the useful results of yoga exercise, states Fishman."

Patients-- even a lot of doubtful-- are experiencing the positive aspects of yoga treatment firsthand. When Stacey Halstead was pestered by chronic insomnia, she made a consultation with her family practitioner, whom she hoped would certainly suggest resting tablets. After chatting with Halstead about stressors in her life, the doctor instead suggested she attempt yoga exercise to see if it helped launch stress and handle anxiety. "I raged with her," says Halstead. "I was exhausted as well as desired something to assist me now." She accepted attempt yoga for six weeks, yet just with her doc's assurance to think about medication if the experiment failed. To Halstead's excellent unpleasant surprise, yoga did aid her sleep-- and also Halstead hasn't asked for those rest meds.

Results from several studies show that Halstead's outcome-- as well as the favorable results experienced by plenty of people who are looking to yoga treatment-- prevails. In the most recent scientific research studies, researchers are using genomic expression and also human brain imaging to recognize how yoga exercise affects experts on a mobile and molecular degree. "Researchers take blood samples prior to and after yoga exercise practice to see which genes have actually been activated as well as which were shut down," claims Khalsa. "We're likewise able to see which locations of the mind are changing in structure and size due to yoga and reflection." This kind of study is helping take yoga right into the realm of "actual scientific research," he states, by revealing how the technique modifications psycho-physiological function.

The Future of Yoga Therapy

Given rising medical prices and challenges, specialists concur yoga is a secure, reasonably budget-friendly corresponding therapy. Making it much more available to those with less gain access to is key. "Medical companies as well as the yoga exercise area have to remain to reach out to individuals of color and also in reduced socioeconomic levels-- populations that experience more tension and higher prices of lifestyle-related illness," claims McCall. One important step would certainly be changes in insurance policy protection, claims Fishman. "I want to see wellness care organizations and insurance coverage firms accept yoga exercise as a reimbursable therapy for particular conditions, several of which have already been proven and several of which are currently being examined," he says.

It will certainly take time to change both professionals' and people' attitudes toward yoga. Many from both teams still check out yoga exercise as purely a supplement to traditional therapy instead of a primary technique. However, enhancing access to yoga treatment as well as a growing body of clinical proof documenting its benefits are planting a feeling of positive outlook among those submersed in this job. "I see a bright future where yoga exercise and also various other mind-body methods become a lot more approved within standard clinical care, as our medical system starts to move away from a more restricting health problem model to a much more informed wellness version of wellness," states Lorenzo Cohen, PhD, teacher as well as director of the Integrative Medication Program at MD Anderson Cancer cells Center and also grand son of the well known early Western yoga teacher, the late Vanda Scaravelli. The most effective shift may be the one that takes place within each people-- when we take obligation for our very own health and wellness, do our technique, and also permit change and also healing to occur.

Rachford, the Navy vet, is now a qualified yoga educator and also leads classes at the posting firm where he functions. He also instructs area classes. "We often want prompt cures for discomforts or injuries, as well as Western medication is quite much tailored towards prescriptions as well as surgical procedure," he says. "However yoga exercise doesn't function this way. As Sri K. Pattabhi Jois stated, 'Do your technique as well as all is coming.' Yoga aids me handle tension and has permitted me to release addictions and hazardous behaviors. It has established me without discomfort and also suffering, which enables peace, delight, as well as wellness to be existing in my life."

How to find the appropriate yoga therapist

Wondering whether yoga therapy might help you with a wellness concern? Below are some tips on navigating this new therapeutic field:

Do your research

To see if yoga treatment will certainly help to heal your certain condition, or if you intend to read the study prior to you spend your time and money, browse through Yoga Alliance's site (yoga
alliance.org) to discover research study highlights for particular health conditions under Yoga Research.

Explore local options

Search the IAYT member account database (iayt.org) to discover details on training, style, and locations of proficiency for yoga therapists near you. Credentials criteria for individual specialists aren't yet in area, they're anticipated in the next year or 2. Your yoga educator or physician may also have the ability to advise a therapist. If you do not find an individual near you, take into consideration traveling to a neighboring community, given that you should see a yoga exercise specialist just periodically. "What's important is that you get a thorough analysis, as well as a residence technique that matches you well," claims McCall.

Talk with your primary medical provider

Many physicians still consider yoga as energetic workout that would certainly be inappropriate for individuals with wellness challenges, so be prepared to do some informing (bring your study). If you've located a yoga specialist you such as, you may intend to offer your physician consent to review your situation with them, states Laura Kupperman, E-RYT 500, an expert yoga specialist in Boulder, Colorado.

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