HIP HOP YOGA

Yoga That Body & Mind | Style & Life by Susana

[ctt template=”8″ link=”cGF08″ via=”no” ]”Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can’t skip the next position. You find yourself in very humiliating situations but you can’t judge yourself. You have to take a breath, and let go. It is a workout for your mind, your body, and your soul.” Madonna[/ctt]

I first was introduced to yoga by… Madonna. Yes, the Queen iconic pop herself, Madonna. True fact. It was around the time of her brilliant album, Ray of Light was released and she was heavily and passionately into yoga herself. I was so intrigued that I did some back ground study at the library and on the internet that I remember ordering my first yoga DVD from eBay, and that was the moment I became hooked.

The first time I did yoga was in my bedroom, back at my parents house that I clearly remember at the end of the session I actually broke down in tears. Why? I had previously read that that first time doing yoga, you could experience an ‘unleashing of tears and emotions’. And that is exactly what happened to me. All of these emotions and feelings were unleashed, and I felt a sense of relief. A sense of balance, a sense of peace.

It unleashed and opened up a part of me that I became connected to on a highest spiritual  level that I have never experience and nor truly forgotten about.

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Fast forward almost twenty something years later… on and off, I have done yoga. When I haven’t incorporated yoga into my life, I personally know I have felt lost and unbalanced, spiritually.

There is yoga that will make you sweat (which I personally love, and its called Bikram yoga or Hot Yoga in some other circles), and there is vinyasa yoga.

Now there is Hip Hop Yoga. When Yoga 213 contacted me recently about coming along and reviewing their class, which at this time is in Richmond (Melbourne) but they hope to open a studio down the track here in Geelong. I was completely intrigued and immediately jumped on board!

a) its yoga! and b) it incorporates hip hop music which I have forever even been a huge fan of. There was NO WAY I could pass up this opportunity.

 

So what is Hip Hop Yoga?

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[ctt template=”8″ link=”cGF08″ via=”no” ]Yoga213 is Australia’s first Hip Hop yoga studio! Come and experience the vinyasa flows, along to pumping hip hop beats. It’s a celebration of yoga and music! Yogadizzle my shizzle![/ctt]

Its basically still your usual yoga, vinyasa influenced yoga, that basically incorporates the beats of the music from DJ Kahle, 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Eminem, Notorious B.I.G and so many more iconic rap artists, past and present.

You would think you would lose all sense of concentration with hearing the likes of Future, Salt N’ Pepa or Kendrick Lamar… not at all! You actually become even more involved and lost in the sense of the beat. Your body, in time moves in fluid motion and hold postures to the beat.

Yoga is most DEFINITELY not easy, and requires all of your core and upper strength. Anyone who thinks yoga is for the piss weak, should try it out. By the end of it, I am completely sure they will say, ‘F*ck that was hard!”

This 60 minute class focuses on the entire body, head to toe. You’re going to hurt, feel so tired and sweat, and your body will be sore for a few days but only because it’s working those areas that you forgot about but I can guarantee that you will also feel so alive and spiritually awakened, and oh so good!

 

Yogadizzle my shizzle!

* Photos were taken with my Samsung tablet. This post is in collaboration with Yoga213 and all thoughts and opinions are my own and is in consideration in accordance with my disclosure policy. 

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16 Comments
  • Style and Life by Susana
    August 17, 2017

    Its awesome you’d love it!

  • Style and Life by Susana
    August 17, 2017

    I know what you mean! It happened a few times to me, when i keep ‘rapping’ along to the lyrics haha!

  • Style and Life by Susana
    August 17, 2017

    Thank you so much xx

  • Style and Life by Susana
    August 17, 2017

    I think you would love it especially to have hip hip music in the back ground instead of the tickly ‘spirtual’ music in the back ground haha! 😀

  • Style and Life by Susana
    August 17, 2017

    Its been on/off though, but I have always returned back to it as it is the one ‘work out’ that works for me physically and spiritually xx

  • Chrissy
    August 16, 2017

    That sounds like so much fun! I love how you can incorporate hip hop with yoga! x

  • Glenny
    August 16, 2017

    That sound so fun, I love that it’s hip hop music. I don’t normally do yoga but I would try if the music was hip hop 😉

  • Sheree
    August 16, 2017

    This seems like so much fun! I love doing yoga because it is not only a great workout, but it is wonderful for settling the mind. Thank you so much for sharing your practice with us, I’ll definitely need to try it out!

    ~ xo Sheree
    PoshClassyMom.com

  • Stephanie Rose
    August 15, 2017

    That sounds like so much fun. I am the worst dancer, but I love to try!

  • JM Kayne
    August 15, 2017

    Tried your suggestion on checking out a DVD and a friend of mine shared one.. Now HipHop Yoga is another thing… hehehe it get interesting day by day!

    Thank you!

    God Bless!

    JM Kayne | #InMyHeart♥

  • Candace
    August 15, 2017

    I had no idea Madonna was so into yoga. I learn something new every day! I’ve always wanted to try yoga to gain more flexibility and to relieve stress. Hip hip yoga sounds amazing though!

  • Nay Mattis
    August 15, 2017

    I’ve never heard of hip-hop yoga but I’m a huge hip-hop fan so this sounds like fun and something that I’d like to check out.

  • Shasha
    August 15, 2017

    Wow! I love all of these photos. I love hip-hop music and this is the first time I’ve heard of hip hop yoga! I probably wouldn’t be able to focus on the yoga moves if I took the class…I’d be too busy dancing! lol

  • Chloé Arnold
    August 15, 2017

    These photos are incredible! Love yoga, but I had never heard of this!

  • Candy
    August 14, 2017

    How fun! I’ve never heard of Hip-hop yoga and would love to have this in my town. Mainly because I love Jay-Z, Eminem and the Notorious B.I.G. I don’t practice yoga everyday, but I can see myself getting hooked on this 🙂

  • Jane Shussa
    August 14, 2017

    Loved the story of how you started doing yoga, and I can’t believe you have been doing it for 20+ years. That’s really a long time, you are so committed, congrats. I like hip hop music too, I imagine it might be really interesting doing yoga with some Jay-z beats 🙂