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  • Indeed, heat is good and much needed at the moment - bring on Ujjayi pranayama all! Try whilst riding, particularly useful at the beginning of a long ride first thing in the morn - wakes and warms swiftly and effectively!
    Yoga while cycling? That sounds intriguing but also dangerous! I'm guessing 'ujjayi pranayama' does not refer to one those contortionist postures in the Kino McGregor video?!

    there are so few people experimenting with yoga and dance.
    It strikes me as they are two highly similar yet mutually incompatible disciplines. I'm only a beginner at yoga and don't do any dance (bar occasionally being dragged to a night club). So I don't know nothing, me. But to me the similarity is that both involve the graceful transition from one pose to another where the poses themselves are hard to achieve and great strength, dexterity and fluidity are required. However, the emphasis in yoga is all about the pose itself and holding it for an extended period. Whereas dance is about the dynamics of the movement. The pose is merely a point along the way and indeed it might be physically impossible to maintain for more than a brief instant (e.g. due to being airborne!).

    So I can see how the practise of the two would be very complementary to each other. But a yoga based dance sounds somewhat paradoxical.

    Very into asymmetric poses which open up the oft neglected areas of the torso at the moment, particularly variations on Parighasana (gate pose) - this is a great one for cyclists all!
    Sounds intriguing. Will we get to try this one tonight?

    Yup, new Yoga For Cyclists course starts tonight. I'll be there. Assuming I don't get lost in deepest, darkest, London...

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