Yoga for Kayaking (2011)

Feel better and improve your strength, your flexibility and your paddling! The sequences in this DVD help you improve your kayaking and take care of your body so that you can continue to paddle for years to come with ease. Yoga helps to increase flexibility, balance and strength and, when done properly, can help to reduce pain and avoid injury. In addition to the physical benefits of yoga, the practice also helps you focus and relax, reducing stress and increasing performance.
ANNA LEVESQUE, renowned kayak instructor, world freestyle medalist and founder of Girls at Play, has been practicing yoga through out her fifteen-year professional paddling career. She is an RYT (Registered Yoga Teaher) and helps her students paddle and feel better by incorporating yoga into her paddling classes, DVDs, trips and retreats.

JOE TAFT - After many years of avid whitewater kayaking and instructing, river guiding, and basically living in his kayak all day, Joe developed chronic back pain. In 1996 during his pursuit to heal his back, Joe found yoga and later, his life's path, the practic and teaching of Anusara® yoga. Joe Taft RYT-500), a certified Anusara® yoga instructor, currently teaches full-time in Asheville, North Carolina. He brings to his classes Anusara yoga's life-affirming and healing approach through myth, story-telling, and wisdom gathered throughout his life's journey.

Anna and Joe have teamed up to bring you the best Yoga for Kayaking DVD available so grab your mat and get ready to transform your body and your paddling!

Filmed & Edited by Spencer Cooke, Effort Inc