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Paddleboard yoga stands venerable practice on its head

NEW YORK (Reuters) Move over hot, buy canada goose jacket flying and spinning yoga. Paddleboard yoga Canada Goose Online is the latest trend to stand the ancient practice of breath control, body postures and canadian goose jacket movement on its head this time on a surfboard surrounded by uk canada goose water.

A model demonstrates a “Pigeon Pose” during a Paddleboard Yoga demonstration in canada goose San Deigo Bay, California in this May 2014 handout photo provided by Shadow canada goose coats Van canada goose factory sale Houten on October 24, 2014. REUTERS/Shadow Van buy canada goose jacket cheap Houten/Handout via Reuters

Fitness experts and enthusiasts say classes Canada Goose Jackets for waterborne yoga, which is also known as Canada Goose sale Stand Canada Goose Parka Up Paddleboard (SUP) hone balance, focus concentration and lure exercisers who prefer open air to overheated studios.

tell canada goose coats on sale me it like walking on water, said paddleboard uk canada goose outlet racer and yoga instructor Gillian Gibree, who has been teaching Paddleboard Yoga since 2009.

The instructor and trained lifeguard said first timers begin with a water safety demonstration on dry land before going on to water, where even the simplest yoga postures can take on an added intensity.

the board, even plank (a foundational push up pose) is a challenge, she said. is slowed down because it canada goose uk black friday takes much longer to keep Canada Goose online your balance.

Because the board is unstable, different muscle groups are cheap Canada Goose fired, said Gibree, who has floated her practice on rivers, bays and canada goose uk shop even oceans, canada goose store although she usually teaches on flat water.

works a lot on balance and you have to find your drishti (yoga focused gaze) on canada goose clearance sale the board, she said. a total body workout.

SUP Yoga joins two ancient traditions. The modern SUP sport originated in Hawaii canada goose black friday sale in the 1950s and 1960s, but stand up paddle boarding dates back thousands of years, to ancient fisherman from Polynesia to Peru.

And while the classical cheap canada goose uk techniques of yoga date back more goose cheap than 5,000 years, a https://www.canadagooseparks.com worldwide survey of more than 3,000 fitness professionals published this month by the American College of Sports Medicine rated it number seven among the top 10 canada goose uk outlet fitness trends for 2015.

A model demonstrates canada goose clearance a “Reverse Table Top Pose” during a Paddleboard Yoga demonstration in San Deigo Bay, California in this May 2014 handout photo provided by Shadow Van Houten October 24, 2014. REUTERS/Shadow Van Houten/Handout via Reuters

Gibree, said her clients come from places as far flung as Canada, Switzerland, South Canada Goose Coats On Sale Africa and New Zealand.

there a pond, lake, marsh, or body of Canada Goose Outlet water, she said.

Exercise physiologist and yoga instructor Jessica Matthews said the paddling technique intrinsic to SUP Yoga adds an upper body component to the practice.

things work well on the board, some work more easily on land, she said, noting that, while paddleboard yoga doesn replace a studio practice, it can complement it.

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