What is not invented today in the mass sports and fitness industry. And all for you, dear customers, if only you get the necessary dose of endorphins and diversify your workouts. We decided to introduce you to a rather original and new direction in the world of yoga — boxing yoga.
«Boxing Yoga» is a training system patented by the author. Literally, it’s not really yoga. She was founded in the London Boxing Club «Total Boxer». In fact, all the hard-to-understand esotericism of yoga was eviscerated, including the Vedic philosophy of spiritual development, the ethical rules of behavior and understanding of the world, as well as chakras, concentration levels, etc.
All attention in «Boxing Yoga» is paid to the implementation of a clear program of exercises aimed at increasing sports performance: strength, endurance, flexibility, reaction, coordination, cardio indicators, etc.
«Boxing Yoga» is interesting because it is a holistic technique, a system that pays attention to the whole body. In the course of classes, including reaction, muscular and ordinary memory, involving the whole body — the practitioner willy-nilly «wakes up», because he must quickly perform the simplest movements.
Exercises are chosen so that the tension alternates with the loads, which makes it possible to use the system to recover athletes who have suffered an injury. There is no doubt that «Boxing Yoga» is safe and good for health.
«Boxing Yoga» is built on the basis of training boxers, so it is based on the logic and development of the line of boxing gymnastics: the use of body strength, twisting movements and slits, the development of reaction speed and body movement. Exercises are performed in a certain sequence, which makes «boxing yoga» similar to the performance of a revealing training series — «Kata» — from karate, or «tensegriti gymnastics» series.
How do workouts take place
The average duration of classes is 60 minutes, under the music, which allows those who were honestly engaged to literally «crawl» into the locker room. The level of difficulty varies depending on the student’s preparation. Therefore, «boxing yoga» can do practically everything, from boring housewives to professional boxers and MMA fighters.
As Kayza Ekberg, co-owner, senior teacher and» face » of the Boxing Yoga brand, explains, There are different «thematic» sequences in Boxing Yoga, each of which has its own character and taste. At the same time, most yoga boxing classes consist of boxing slits and defensive maneuvers, » triconasan «(after all, one of the terms of yoga» survived » and took root!) and deviations.
Experienced yogis will be able to recognize in this style a large number of usual exercises: including elements of the variation on the theme «greetings to The Sun», «warrior Poses», «tree Poses», «camel Poses». All poses are performed dynamically, with clenched fists, under incendiary music, open eyes and determined facial expression.
Adherents of» Indian classical » yoga, which against the background of these amazing gymnastic studios looks hopelessly outdated and generally unscrupulous, can first of all agree to such exercises for an unsuccessful joke or qualitative draw. But very seriously. The question, apparently, is not whether «it is worth reinventing the bike» — but whether it is possible to earn money.
In the US, the UK and other Western countries, where the masses got acquainted with yoga in the 60s of the 20th century, through «Ashtanga Vinyasa» and «Bikram yoga», and where these author’s directions have already acquired the status of «classical» yoga, everything is possible.
If you are not a nerdy traditionalist and just take the basic position «well all that is not harmful to health and Mind», yoga Boxing is quite a worthy direction, and for a number of reasons, much safer and more useful than, for example, Bikram yoga or Broga.
Taking stock
Nowadays, yoga survives and moves mainly at the expense of the yoga business, and it consists in interest, attracting the client, and giving him a simple, understandable and, preferably, «approved by the Ministry of Health»product. Even better, if this product is attractive to women and young people, it looks beautiful in the photo and combines explicit sexuality, social adequacy, and novelty. New «yoga styles», such as boxing yoga, including, on these indicators clearly give a serious head start to all traditional yoga practices.
By the way, it’s not so given that we talked with the famous yoga practitioner Domenica Kogan, who revealed some secrets of yoga to us.
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