Yoga Meditation Moves Outside

It seems there's been a relocation as yoga meditation moves to the great outdoors. Not just for the fresh air or the view, mind you, but there's something more to doing yoga and meditation outside. A local instructor in Fort Wayne, Indiana has practiced yoga and meditation in many different locales, but even the most mundane outdoor venue she finds much more interesting than the predictability of an indoor studio. Writer Cathie Rowand at the The Journal Gazette describes what it seems to be all about.

Yoga Meditation Moves Outside

“Practicing yoga in a studio can be great most of the time,” local yoga instructor Lanah Hake says. “But, for me, I’ve done yoga in so many beautiful places outdoors – on the beach, near the mountains. There is such a different element to doing yoga outdoors. It really connects you to the Earth. There is nothing like it.”

Yoga meditation benefits are enhanced if done outdoors.

Two years ago, Hake, who received her yoga certification through the national Yoga Alliance in 2011, began offering outdoor yoga once a week at a park two blocks from her house. This summer, her classes have expanded to include four classes a week in three picturesque locations around the city – Lakeside Park Rose Gardens, Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory and Salomon Farm Park.

“I didn’t expect to continue offering this,” Hake says. “But people really respond well to it. It’s grown, and I’m growing with it.”

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One of the most interesting aspects to yoga meditation done outdoors is the level of unpredictability that it introduces into the experience. It's easy to tune out stray but familiar noises in a studio, but what about all those sounds that you might get outside. Keeps things interesting.

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