As yoga practitioners discover their own style of doing yoga, some come up with quite creative and astonishing ideas. Usually, practitioners who introduce such creative ideas are those who have learned yoga from esteemed yogis at yoga retreats in Rishikesh or Bali or Santa Barbara and other yoga hubs across the world, and have thorough grounding in the process.
One of such idea is practicing yoga in water, which is now known world-wide as Aqua yoga. Aqua yoga is particularly known for enhancing the effects of stretching and relaxation poses. Another good thing about Aqua yoga is that the people of all ages and fitness levels can do it. And even if you don’t have any prior experience of doing yoga or swimming, you can still do aqua yoga easily.
In Aqua yoga, some poses become inevitably harder to do and others easier due to the increased resistance and buoyancy force of water. But since water and air are two quite different media, doing Aqua yoga provides an entirely different experience than other regular forms of yoga.
How to Do Aqua Yoga?
The resistance and support water as a medium provides when you are partially immersed in it, enhances the effect the yoga poses. Different yoga practitioners choose to do Aqua yoga by getting immersed in water at different levels; for instance some practice it by getting immersed in water till neck while others only till torso.
Unlike other forms of yoga, where a bit loose clothing works well enough, in Aqua yoga a swimwear is considered to be the most appropriate attire as it allows free body movements.
A number of poses that we do on land and in air are included in Aqua yoga. And this number can be further increased by using supports to let your body float on water surface freely and use the pool wall as floor.
Let’s take an example of how Aqua yoga enhances the effect of yoga. For doing Shavasana, we are required to feel like we are floating in air, for which we need to focus hard. But when we do Shavasana in Aqua yoga, we are already floating on the water surface, thus, a better feeling is generated with comparatively much less efforts.
Benefits of Doing Aqua Yoga
• Like other water workouts such as Aqua Aerobics and Aqua Kick-boxing, not including swimming, Aqua yoga helps us in improving our muscles strength and flexibility.
• When we do yoga in water, its buoyant effect reduces the pressure one’s weight puts on the joints, thus, diminishing the pain that many people feel while doing physical workouts.
• While practicing Aqua yoga, practitioners have to work against water resistance and buoyancy force at once, which requires quite more focus than that pose being practiced in air; consequently, we achieve better body alignment.
• Body weighs less in water; as a result, body muscles feel less pressure and become more relaxed. Besides, there is no danger of falling and getting injured while doing challenging poses in water.
• In addition, Aqua yoga is found to be quite effective in fighting against diseases and conditions like Arthritis, Knee or Hip injury, Muscular Dystrophy, post-surgery side-effects, depression, Sclerosis and many more.
If you are already familiar with yoga and looking to something challenging and new then aqua yoga may be just perfect for you.
One of such idea is practicing yoga in water, which is now known world-wide as Aqua yoga. Aqua yoga is particularly known for enhancing the effects of stretching and relaxation poses. Another good thing about Aqua yoga is that the people of all ages and fitness levels can do it. And even if you don’t have any prior experience of doing yoga or swimming, you can still do aqua yoga easily.
In Aqua yoga, some poses become inevitably harder to do and others easier due to the increased resistance and buoyancy force of water. But since water and air are two quite different media, doing Aqua yoga provides an entirely different experience than other regular forms of yoga.
How to Do Aqua Yoga?
The resistance and support water as a medium provides when you are partially immersed in it, enhances the effect the yoga poses. Different yoga practitioners choose to do Aqua yoga by getting immersed in water at different levels; for instance some practice it by getting immersed in water till neck while others only till torso.
Unlike other forms of yoga, where a bit loose clothing works well enough, in Aqua yoga a swimwear is considered to be the most appropriate attire as it allows free body movements.
A number of poses that we do on land and in air are included in Aqua yoga. And this number can be further increased by using supports to let your body float on water surface freely and use the pool wall as floor.
Let’s take an example of how Aqua yoga enhances the effect of yoga. For doing Shavasana, we are required to feel like we are floating in air, for which we need to focus hard. But when we do Shavasana in Aqua yoga, we are already floating on the water surface, thus, a better feeling is generated with comparatively much less efforts.
Benefits of Doing Aqua Yoga
• Like other water workouts such as Aqua Aerobics and Aqua Kick-boxing, not including swimming, Aqua yoga helps us in improving our muscles strength and flexibility.
• When we do yoga in water, its buoyant effect reduces the pressure one’s weight puts on the joints, thus, diminishing the pain that many people feel while doing physical workouts.
• While practicing Aqua yoga, practitioners have to work against water resistance and buoyancy force at once, which requires quite more focus than that pose being practiced in air; consequently, we achieve better body alignment.
• Body weighs less in water; as a result, body muscles feel less pressure and become more relaxed. Besides, there is no danger of falling and getting injured while doing challenging poses in water.
• In addition, Aqua yoga is found to be quite effective in fighting against diseases and conditions like Arthritis, Knee or Hip injury, Muscular Dystrophy, post-surgery side-effects, depression, Sclerosis and many more.
If you are already familiar with yoga and looking to something challenging and new then aqua yoga may be just perfect for you.
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