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13. Teil verschiedene Yoga Arten: Hip Hop YogaPart 13 different yoga styles: Hip Hop Yoga

March 12, 2014 by Patricia Staffa in Yoga style, Berlin, Hip Hop Yoga

Hip Hop in der Kombination mit einer Vinyasa Yoga Stunde klang für mich sofort nach einer guten Idee. Und es ist eine gute Idee.
Dem Rhythmus der Musik in einer Yoga Stunde Raum zu geben und spielerisch mit einzubinden, hat mir wirklich sehr gut gefallen: locker, fröhlich, cool.

*Hip Hop in combination with a Vinyasa Yoga lession immediately sounded like a good idea to me. And a good idea it was.
To give space to the rhythm of the music in a Yoga lesson and integrate it in a playful manner really appealed to me: casual, cheerful, cool.*

Part 12 different Yoga styles: hoop yoga by Rebecca Halls

February 24, 2014 by Patricia Staffa in column, Kolumne, Yoga Art, Yoga style, Yoga- Fibel, hoop yoga

What is Hoop Yoga? by Rebecca Halls

Hoop Yoga is a fusion of new and old forms of somatic education; a marriage between systematic structures of asanas and pranayama and the dynamic qualities of hoop dance which stimulates our subtle anatomy. Connecting to one's own respiration, and being aware of one's central axis allows this practice to be an energising and fun dance between control and surrender.
Class begins with breath work and meditation, then transitions into a series of vinyasas where the hoop serves as a playful assistant in deepening the surrender to asana and one's own rhythm and flow of breath. Hoop Yoga stimulates our head-tail connection activating the life force (Prana/Qi), waking up the fluids and nerves in the spine to circulate new energy into organs, muscles and bones and extremities.