Hello Batteroaven,
We would 🖤 to inform you about our new class Yoga-Mobility.
The name Yoga sometimes evokes crooked toes, but unknown is unloved.
Yoga involves more than just moving with a spiritual touch. Almost all mobility, stretching and gymnastic exercises originate from a 5000+ year old science of body and mind.
Within Batteroaf we will offer and develop a Yoga-Mobility form to improve your mobility, flexibility, balance, body awareness and mindset.
Body awareness is crucial for a CrossFitter, often we only become aware of our body when a problem or injury occurs. And by body we mean the skeletal structure, the muscular system, diaphragm and breath, organs and your mental and emotional state. Increasing attention to the details in movement and how breath naturally supports movement make you gain more control over your movements. This increases the balance and flexibility.
Why is flexibility important, put simply; strength exercises shorten the muscles and the flexibility decreases. For a CrossFitter it is crucial to maintain the balance between strength and flexibility because you are an all-round athlete and the gymnastic exercises require mobility of your muscles and skeleton.
To support those muscles and provide them with oxygenated blood, breath is important. Functional Breathing is one of the most underestimated elements in sports and our daily life. You cannot breathe incorrectly, your breathing is an indicator of your condition. So if you are tense, or your mindset is pessimistic or you are not there with your attention, it will immediately translate into your breathing pace and rhythm. So instead of breathing incorrectly or correctly, we speak of functional or non-functional breathing that also serves as an indicator of how you feel. In addition, with targeted breathing exercises, we are able to increase our lung volume and strengthen our diaphragm, it can help us regulate tension and increase mobility in the rib cage and back. This is a discipline that will not only support you in sport but also in your daily life.
From breath we automatically enter mindset, when we learn to read our breath, we become more aware of how we are doing. Your sports performance requires you to be aware of your body, you learn this by increasing your flexibility and working with the limitations you encounter in it. So do not push, wanting and ignoring your limitations, which only provokes resistance, but develops attention / awareness for where the space is in your body. A mindset or a different way of looking at performance is a crucial element in this. In our western thinking we are focused on action, result, perseverance. Great attitude, but that mindset is exactly what often gets in our way to bring your performance to a higher level. Because here comes mental stress and frustration.
Yoga-Mobility awareness increases your attention to neutral attention, observing, without purpose, intention, only perceiving both positive and negative sensations in body and mind. Your mind is also a muscle that you have to train, in CrossFit perhaps the most important one.
And finally we will pay attention to the usefulness of relaxation. Recovery processes can only take place at rest. You can’t refuel a car when it is driving. In addition to sleeping, conscious relaxation is an important element to make your own. Doing nothing is making sure that your muscles, organs, cells have the opportunity to put things in order. Doing nothing is not doing nothing.
Josepha and Monique, together with Richard and Marjan, have the intention to bring Yoga-Mobility to a higher level within Batteroaf.
Josepha and Monique will regularly go deeper into the functionality of Yoga-Mobility through Facebook posts. And we hope you take up this challenge and see you on Sunday 13.00-14.00