Few would link healthy exercise like yoga with alcohol intake. However, in Denmark, personal trainer Anne Lund invites her students to combine the two worlds “Beer Yoga”.
Lund is 40 years old and every fortnight he meets his students on a pier in Copenhagen. Before she starts class, she walks through them with a box full of beer cans and they each keep one.
Between exercises, or even during them, they take a sip of that golden elixir so ingrained in Danish culture.
“They’re totally basic yoga exercises. Sometimes we drink during exercise, sometimes between two movements“the physical trainer told the agency AFP extension.
“It’s all about doing yoga,” she said in a report broadcast by the CBS A few days ago.
During the lessons, from time to time, Lund talks to his students in English “beer”, something like “encervezalo”, a kind of green light for everyone to relax with a refreshing sip. After all, yoga is still an exercise that requires the expenditure of energy.
Perhaps one of the highlights of the sessions is when they try to hold the cans over their heads strike a pose that requires unlimited balance. When it is achieved, the celebration becomes a real revelry.
Danish spring is ideal for the activity, which is usually very popular and requires more willpower than physical condition to carry it out.
Charlotte Mahaffey, a 50-year-old flight attendant, told the agency AFP extension: “Everyone starts and (wants) to try it, even if they’ve never done yoga before. I’m no yoga expert, but I try to do my best and drink at the same time“.
The story began at the end of a party four years ago when Anne Lund pitched the idea to a friend who owns a small brewery and delivers cans.
“I love yoga, but I also enjoy life and being healthy,” she says, noting that while there are other similar sessions around the world, she’s the only one to do it in Denmark.
With his classes, which are attended by men and women of all ages, Lund wants “people to feel good, laugh and have an enjoyable experience”.
“It was really nice to sit out here in the sun and get some exercise while drinking beer. It couldn’t be better,” says Jacob, a 31-year-old student and musician.
On his social media, Lund talks about his students as a “great family” and even shows sessions inside his friend’s brewery.
“Beer is Jesus. Welcome to the Church”says a sign in a photo she posted doing yoga in a brewery.
Source: Clarin
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