Yoga has been the “it” fitness trend for years now, and admittedly, it is pretty good.
It involves strength, balance, and plenty of discipline and has a great effect on practitioners’ mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
However, if all that downward dog and tree pose just aren’t for you, maybe rage yoga will be more up your street?
Rage Yoga is the brainchild of Lindsay Istace, who describes the practice as “a practice involving stretching, positional exercises, and bad humor, with the goal of attaining good health and to become zen AF. More than just a practice, Rage Yoga is an attitude.”
Lindsay was inspired to start the movement after feeling like traditional yoga classes just weren’t her bag.
Tired of feeling “really out of place,” she decided the only alternative was to create her own version of yoga that just so happened to involve a lot more swearing and a bit of alcohol too.
“My practice gave me a strong body-mind connection and a new appreciation for my body,” she explains on the Rage Yoga website. “I learned how to slow my mind, feel good in my body and built some decent pipes while I was at it. It helped me overcome addiction and weather a lot of personal obstacles. It kept me healthy and sane!”
Lindsay adds that rage yoga is less about getting all the moves right and more about becoming “centered, confident and giving zero f**ks.”
The method is now being taught around the country, like at Brash Brewery in Houston, Texas, where Ashley Duzich instructs the class on how to “release and let go.”
“Yoga itself actually means union… so union with yourself,” she told CBS DFW. “And that’s not always just super-calm, breathing, practicing quiet time, like a lot of yoga places are.”
Ashley added, “We are all angry about something and we all have been holding onto an ‘F’-bomb for a little bit too long. So that’s what this does – is – it allows you to have a safe space to let go of your and frustration and rage in a healthy way… and then also wash it all away with some ice-cold beer.”
I think we can all get behind that.