In SUP yoga, we practice yoga on a stand-up paddleboard (SUP), combining the general benefits of yoga, such as enhancing flexibility, stability, and strength, with skills that are specifically needed for SUP. These include steadfastness and spontaneity, which will not only benefit you in your SUP yoga practice but your life as a whole, not just physically.
I would like to point out that every SUP yoga session is different from practicing on land, as the water, wave, and wind conditions are never the same.
This fact makes SUP yoga especially exciting and enriching for me and is a reflection of life!
Benefits of SUP yoga
Mental Health
- Has a positive effect on mental health
- Strengthens the ability to concentrate, as feedback is immediate if concentration wanes (you will fall into the water ;-))
- Has an antidepressant effect
- Stress-relieve
- Reduces anxiety and panic attacks
Physical Health
- Positive effects for lower back pain
- SUP yoga activates new, deeper muscles that are not reached by yoga on land.
Motoric abilities
- neuromotor exercises -> creates a better connection between the brain and movement
- Trains your balance and coordination
- Increases movement efficiency
Sensitive
- Improves proprioception (depth sensitivity = a person’s sense of their body in space) -> Refinement of the mind-body connection
The Goddess with the Paddle
This practice is inspired by Tai Ji sword or Tai-Ji stick and every SUP yoga class also includes elements of The Goddess with the Paddle*, which I have specially developed.
Target Groups
In principle, I believe that water yoga should be possible for everyone. For those who have any physical or psychological precondition, I would advise a separate preliminary discussion to find the best solution.
My water yoga classes are accessible for all fitness levels.
Please let me know if you have any medical or pain-related mobility restrictions before the class!
All genders are welcome in my classes. *
I would especially like to encourage women to practice water yoga whose experiences and scars of life are also physically visible (like mine 😊).
Furthermore
Being able to swim has an advantage, but I have practiced water yoga with people who couldn’t swim.
To do SUP yoga, it is not a prerequisite to have experience standing on a SUP board or to have practiced yoga before.
Anyone interested in SUP yoga is welcome, with or without previous experience!
Yoga in the water
If the water is suitable and there is little current, it is a good idea to simply move your yoga practice into the water. The warm-up, pranayama and certain asanas are well suited for this. We will discover exactly what these are in a playful process together. This practice is unique and develops further through practicing together.
