Yoga for Dancers

Benefits of yoga for dancers

Dance and yoga have been related for ages in Indian culture. Doing yoga brings stability, balance, ease of movement, and flexibility, among other things, all of which are wonderfully beneficial as a dancer. Yoga can help dancers bring poise and elegance to their movements.

Benefits of Yoga for Dancers

  • Minimizes the risks of dance-related injuries
  • Aids dancers in maintaining flexibility and tests their focus constantly with challenging sequences of movement
  • Gives confidence a boost
  • Can assist in getting you back to dancing after a long break
  • Its breathing techniques will keep you calm
  • Helps deal with pre-showcase jitters
  • Gives you more energy and stamina to perform long hours
  • Allows you to execute energetic dance sequences with more respiratory ease.
  • Tones muscles and keeps joints flexible

 

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Yoga Poses for Dancers

Here are a few postures that can assist you in gaining agility and translating that into your movements:

Legs Up the Wall Pose

It will help take the pressure off of your legs and feet. Great for after high-intensity practices, as it will calm your nervous system.

Upward Plank Franks

Strengthens wrists, arms, shoulders, spine, and back.

Downward Dog Pose

This is a good one. It brings strength all over (arms, shoulders, legs, feet…), increases blood flow to the brain and lengthens the spine.

Bridge Pose

Great for building strength in the legs and butt. It also encourages you to open up your chest, just like in dance class.

Boat Pose

Dancing requires great core strength, and this pose provides just that.

Chair Pose

This pose will assist dancers in balancing the body and also tones thighs, ankles, leg, and knee muscles.

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You dance? Now Yoga!

Bella Diva Dance’s new “Yoga For Dancers” class in Denver will enable dancers to effectively cross-train, equipping them with greater breath awareness, increased strength & flexibility, injury prevention, & recovery techniques needed to maintain optimal mobility. The emphasis on proper alignment, balance, & agility will make even someone with two left feet look & feel like a dancer! This class is suitable for both dancers & non-dancers alike, male & female, all ages, & from any background. Come check us out and get your Yoga on!

Our studio is going to be closed Thursday, December 22, through Thursday Jan 5, with all classes resuming Sunday, January 8, 2017.

4 Yoga postures and their benefits for your body!

Yoga for dancers

Yoga is one of the most ancient forms of exercise and meditation. Initially, there was only one “asana”, or yoga pose. This pose was a stable and comfortable seated pose for prolonged meditation. Today there are many poses, series, and variations that not only help to stretch and tone your body, but also open up energy channels and chakras. Depending on the type of pose, these produce different energetic, mental, physical, and emotional effects. Here are 4 Yoga Postures and how they benefit your body! 

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Yoga Asanas according to position

Seated asanas

Seated yoga poses have a grounding and balancing energetic effect. They also help achieve flexibility and meditation. There are some seated postures that might seem easy at first, but they all have their trick. Some common seated asanas are: easy pose, conqueror breath, staff pose, child pose, bound ankle pose and more.

Standing asanas

These asanas have an uplifting and opening energetic effect. These help strengthen our muscles and bones too. Some standing asanas for beginners: mountain pose, tree pose, warrior pose, chair pose, and triangle pose are a great place to start.

Supine asanas

These type of asanas involve you lying on your back, facing upwards. These poses have a nurturing and integrating energetic effect, and help achieve better flexibility. Some common poses: bridge pose, corpse pose, joyful baby pose, supine hero pose,  and the supine bound ankle pose.

Prone asanas

These asanas involve you lying on the floor, on your belly. These poses have an energizing effect and help strengthen back and core. Some of these poses are: cobra pose, plank or four-limbed staff pose, crocodile pose, bow pose, and the upward facing dog. These poses can take more practice but the value you gain is worth it!

Denver Yoga Dancers

 

Yoga is an integrated physical, emotional, and spiritual practice that helps you achieve a toned body and challenges you to increase your skill all the time. Read about yoga and dance classes in our studio in Denver, why dancing is a great workout and learn to make your own fabulous detox smoothies.

Yoga classes at Bella Diva
Yoga for dancing at Bella Diva Studio in Denver