Paddleboard yoga is gaining popularity
Paddleboarding is hard. I don’t know from personal experience, mind you. I only assume so because I’ve seen many a fit, perfectly capable looking person fall repeatedly off a paddleboard into the ocean during the summer, while I engaged in the somewhat less strenuous activity of floating, toes up in the surf or looking for sea glass and shells with my kids.
When I think beach, I think sand, salt air, the cry of gulls overhead, the crashing of waves, and I like to imagine myself reclined, preferably with a book and a cold drink. I also do not think of yoga, though I have done that, and find it to be relaxing (at least the last 10 minutes of it when you are face down on your mat and ready to fall asleep after the workout you just survived).
But I most certainly would not think of putting the already-difficult paddleboarding and yoga together. Are there humans that can really do this? The answer is surprisingly “yes,” and it is only becoming more popular as instruction for this sport increases.
SUP (stand up paddleboard) Yoga combines paddleboarding (which originated in the Hawaiian islands in the ’30s and ’40s) with Online Yoga and creates a challenging fusion of sports that requires both a great deal of concentration and a good sense of humor. One must be willing to fall off the board, and likely often, as even the best practitioners are subject to the whims of Mother Nature. But for daring souls willing to try it, SUP Portsmouth Barre offers the body a terrific cross-training workout and the mind a new view of gorgeous New Hampshire coastline.
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