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July 2007 
Yoga for Surfing ... or all watersports
Michele
Improve your surfing, wakeboarding etc or just get the benefit of Yoga made for watersports of all kinds. Our friend and the instructor, Chris Christoff, has been studying Hatha and Jnana yoga for over 5 years. Chris has a B.S. in Kinesiology from Michigan State University and is a NSCA certified personal trainer. When not instructing Yoga or peforming yogic massage Chris’s passions are to ride the waves or skate the streets.
The classes will be held at Coastal Surf & Ski, we’ll be clearing the floor, plenty of room but class sizes will be limited. Any Monday and Saturday from 6:30 pm to approx. 8:00 pm. Pay by the class if you like $15 per person. for 75-90 minutes.
Yoga for Surfers, or all involved in any watersport, is a 75 minute multi-level hatha yoga (purifying body/mind thru asanas or “poses”) class specialized towards surfers needs. The class will include 4 phases systematically designed to give participants a completely balanced workout .
Phase 1: 20 minute heating routine. Challenging standing strength/balance poses desgined to warm-up the entire body and increase participants proprioception (awareness of spacial enviornment.)
Phase 2: 20 minute mat routine. A ground series designed to strengthen and condition the entire “core” including abs, waist , lowback, and a challenging arm balance sequence.
Phase 3: 20 minute gentle hatha routine. Traditional and non-traditional lying/seated poses done without any resistance of bodyweight allowing for optimal breathing and relaxation to occur.
Phase 4: 15 mintue shavasana (corpse pose): Included in this relaxation phase is a Jnana (wisdom) component which includes concious music and/or discourse allowing participants to enter higher states of awareness.
Access: Public
Fantastic idea!…combining the two arts….they are so naturally related.
Wishing you all the best with this and certainly wishing I was closer so I could attend.