Ottawa Yoga Events

Yoga Workshop for
Hockey Players and Athletes
Aug 8th and Aug 15 6:00-8:00

NHL Star Tim Thomas Credits Yoga for Success
See his video here

Canucks Doing Yoga
Video 2

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Yoga Hockey Workshop

Aug 8 and Aug 15
6:00pm – 8:00pm
All Ages Welcome
Old March Town Hall: 821 March Road, Kanata

Although this particular workshop focuses on the needs of hockey players the exercises practiced could benefit an athlete from any sport. The art of yoga helps to connect the mind and body making an athlete more aware of what their body is doing and how it is feeling as they participate in their sport of choice. Aside from the benefits of increased concentration, athletes who practice yoga achieve increased strength, flexibility, balance, circulation, and core stability; all of these attributes are key to preventing injury. As any athlete knows the length of your career heavily depends on your ability to remain injury free. Yoga is also an excellent way for an athlete to rejuvenate over worked muscles after intense training and competition.

The way we tailor this yoga workshop to hockey players is through considering which muscles and muscle groups are most used and abused during training and competition and targeting these weakened areas, this is called "yang yoga." In hockey most of the strain is absorbed by the players' legs and lower back. One of the most important areas a hockey player can strengthen and open is the muscles of their hips. Through increasing strength and flexibility of the hip muscles a hockey player will reduce their odds of becoming injured and increase the force of each stride (which will help increase speed). This workshop will also focus on yin yoga which focuses heavily on flexibility and concentration, which will help athletes avoid injury and increase special awareness.

Hockey is an inherently rough sport, and despite the best efforts of athletes and trainers injuries are inevitable. A player who practices yoga may be able to decrease the severity of an injury and help themselves to recover faster and more completely. Many professional hockey players including Mark Messier, Jerome Iginla, Martin Havlat, Christopher Higgins, Mike Komisarek, and Sam Gagner practice yoga as a way to prevent and recover from injuries.

One of the most well known hockey players who practices yoga is goalie Tim Thomas of the Boston Bruins. This season Thomas is the best goalie in the NHL and, at the age of 37, may end up being the oldest player in the history of the league to win this prestigious award. When Hockey News asked Thomas for his thoughts on practicing yoga he had this to say,

"I actually didn't know how much it was going to help, but it helps balance out your body. They try to find weaknesses in your body and work on them so they catch up with the rest of your body. Your body is more balanced overall in terms of both flexibility and strength. A lot of the techniques have to do with balance. Not that I think my balance was bad, but it certainly is better now."

This workshop will teach you poses and stretches you can do on your own that will improve your strength, flexibility and balance.

Prices

• $60 for both events (payment must be in advance)
• $40 for one event (payment must be in advance)
• $50 per person at the door
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