Yoga may be the one place you go to quiet your mind, but over the past year, the sounds in the studio have gradually been getting louder.
Music is playing a bigger role than ever in yoga classes across the country, moving from chanting and harmonium to pop, rock, and rap in class.
That’s thanks to a chorus of yogis who’ve moved music to the foreground. And it’s creating an entirely new kind of yoga class that, well, rocks.
“Music is such a huge part of the yoga world now,” says yoga-music maestro David Romanelli. “Ten years ago it was hard to find.”
Here are the instructors and movers and shakers of the yoga mat who want you to get your groove on.
—Melisse Gelula and Lisa Elaine Held
Photo: Get Your Dance On. On homepage: Breakti at Laughing Lotus, www.amykalynsims.com
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