Posts Tagged ‘mobile-yoga’

On a Roll

Yoga on wheels. No, not spinning. (So 2005!) Think
rollerblades instead. The latest unnecessary but totally fun yoga-exercise mash-up,
Mobile Yoga has inline skaters turning all their favorite asanas into
balancing poses by performing them on wheels. Think of a floating Fierce Pose,
a wind-whipped Warrior III, or a gliding Garudasana and you’ll get the picture.
Founder Kris Fondran is an inline skating instructor with a masters in exercise
science; she’s also a certified yoga instructor with some serious cred (trained
in Satyananda Yoga, she received mantra diksha initiation from Paramahamsa
Niranjanananda Saraswati in 2004). You can see the threads of her practice
emerge in her instruction, which is as much about breathing and awareness
building as it is about getting a great cardio workout. And though her Web site
looks totally L.A.–she’s pictured posing against a background of blue skies,
beaches, and palm trees–Fondran is based in Cleveland, Ohio.

Silly or sublime? Strap on your skates and decide for
yourself.

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Poetry in Motion or Accident Waiting to Happen?

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Call me old fashioned, but when I read this post on The Ski Channel website about the new yoga and roller blade hybrid, Mobile Yoga, I cringed a little bit. You see, in the yoga community (or at least in my circle), we are very careful to protect our bodies by finding grounding and stability in the poses. That’s why we focus so much on alignment, right? I’ve never tried to practice yoga on roller blades so maybe I’m not qualified to have an opinion, but I can’t imagine how one would find stability. Perhaps, that’s what makes it
fun and challenging?

What do you think? Has anybody out there tried Mobile Yoga? Would you try it if given the opportunity?

Image from TheSkiChannel.com.

Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/