တိုင္းျပည္ဖြံ႕ျဖိဳး တိုးတက္လာတာနဲ႔အမွ် ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ႀကီးဟာလည္း ျမင့္မားတဲ့အေဆာက္အဦးေတြနဲ႔ ပိုမိုျပီးလူေနထူထပ္လို႔လာပါတယ္။ ဒီလိုနဲ႔ပဲ ျမိဳ႕ျပေန ျပည္သူလူထုဟာ ေန႔စဥ္ညဆက္ အလုပ္လုပ္ရင္းနဲ႔သာ ကုန္ဆံုးႀကရပါတယ္။ ဒီလိုေနထိုင္မႈပံုစံမ်ိဳးဟာ က်န္းမာေရးနဲ႔မညီညြတ္ပဲ ေကာင္းမြန္တဲ့ ကိုယ္ကာယ ေလ့က်င့္ခန္းတစ္ခုခုကို ျပဳလုပ္ဖို႔လိုအပ္ေနျပီလို႔ အခ်က္ေပးလိုက္ျခင္းပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အလုပ္ျပီးအလုပ္ သံသရာလည္ေနတဲ႔၊ ေမာဟိုက္ေနတဲ႔ စိတ္နဲ႔ကိုယ္အတြက္ အာဟာရေတြလိုအပ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီအာဟာရေတြကို ျဖည့္ဆည္းေပးနိုင္တဲ့ ေလ့က်င့္ခန္းေကာင္းနဲ႔ လႈပ္ရွားမႈတခ်ိဳ႕မွာ စက္ဘီးစီးျခင္း၊ ေရကူးျခင္း၊ ေျပးျခင္းတို႔ ျဖစ္ႀကေပမယ့္ ၿမိဳ႕ျပေနလူတစ္ရပ္ဟာ အခ်ိန္ေႀကာင့္ျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ ေနရာေႀကာင့္ျဖစ္ျဖစ္ Indoor ေလ့က်င့္ခန္းေတြကိုပဲ ပိုမိုေရြးခ်ယ္လာၾကတာကို ေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။ ဥပမာအားျဖင့္ Gym ေဆာ့တာ၊ Zumba ကတာ၊ ေယာဂက်င့္တာေတြျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေယာဂက်င့္တယ္လို႔ ဆိုရာမွာ ခုတေလာ ေရပန္းစား လူႀကိဳက္မ်ားေနတဲ့ Flying ေယာဂ အမ်ိဳးအစားကို မိတ္ဆက္ေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။
Flying ေယာဂဆိုတာ ဘာလဲ?
Flying ေယာဂဟာ နယူးေယာက္ျမိဳ႕မွာ စတင္ခဲ့ျပီး တီထြင္သူကေတာ့ နာမည္ႀကီး အကဆရာ၊ ဂြ်မ္းဘားသမားနဲ႔ က်န္းမာႀကံ႕ခိုင္ေရးအႀကံေပး Christopher Harrison ဆိုသူျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ Flying ေယာဂကို ေလေပၚေယာဂ၊ ကမာၻေျမဆြဲအားနဲ႔ ဆန္႔က်င္တဲ့ေယာဂလို႔လည္း လူသိမ်ားႀကပါတယ္။ မူလေယာဂနဲ႔ ကြာျခားခ်က္ကေတာ့ သာမန္ေယာဂရဲ႕ ေျခဟန္လက္ဟန္ေတြအျပင္ pilates၊ ဂြ်မ္းဘားနဲ႔ အကတို႔ရဲ႕ ဟန္ခ်က္ညီညီေပါင္းစပ္ထားမႈပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ Flying ေယာဂရဲ႕ အဓိကေသာ့ခ်က္ကေတာ့ ခႏၶာကိုယ္ဝိတ္ ၃၃၀ ကီလိုအထိ သယ္ေဆာင္ႏိုင္တဲ့ပုခက္ႀကိဳးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ပုခက္ႀကိဳးနဲ႔အတူ ကစားသူမွာ အေရွ႕နဲ႔အေနာက္ကို လိုသလို လႊဲယူကစားနိုင္ျပီး အျမင့္ကိုလည္း လိုသလိုခ်ိန္ညႇိလို႔ရပါတယ္။
ဘယ္သူေတြ ကစားလို႔ရလဲ?
Flying ေယာဂကို စိတ္ပါဝင္စားတဲ့ဘယ္သူမဆို ေယာက်ာ္း၊ မိန္းမ အသက္အရြယ္မေရြး ကစားနိုင္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ျခြင္းခ်က္တစ္ခုအေနနဲ႔ ကိုယ္ဝန္ေဆာင္မိခင္နဲ႔ Vertigo ေရာဂါေဝဒနာ ခံစားေနရသူေတြဆိုရင္ေတာ့ ကစားဖို႔မသင့္ေတာ္ပါဘူး။ Flying ေယာဂဟာ က်န္းမာသန္စြမ္းေစျပီး အ႐ိုးအေႀကာေတြကို ေျဖေလွ်ာ့ေပးလို႔ အထိုင္မ်ားသူေတြ၊ ေက်ာနဲ႔ဆက္စပ္တဲ့ ေဝဒနာခံစားေနရသူေတြအတြက္ အထူးသင့္ေတာ္ပါတယ္။ ေယာဂကစားသူေတြအတြက္အေျခအေနတခ်ိဳ႕က ခက္ခဲနိုင္ေပမယ့္ မူလေယာဂေလ့က်င့္ခန္း အေနအထားေတြကို မလိုက္နိုင္သူတို႔အဖို႔ ပုခက္ႀကိဳးရဲ႕အေထာက္အပံ့နဲ႔ လႈပ္ရွားရတာ ပိုမိုလြယ္ကူေစမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေရပန္းစားတဲ႔ Flying ေယာဂပို႔စ္ အခ်ိဳ႕မွာ half boat pose, reclining angle pose, bound one-legged king pigeon pose, shoulder stretch in wrist wrap တို႕ပဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဘာလို႕ ကစားသင့္လဲ?
Flying ေယာဂဟာ ခႏၶာကိုယ္ကိုသာမက စိတ္ကိုလည္း ႀကံ႕ခိုင္သန္စြမ္းေစပါတယ္။ ေက်ာ႐ိုး၊ လက္နဲ႔ ေျခေထာက္တို႔ကိုသန္စြမ္းေစျပီး တစ္ကိုယ္လံုး လႈပ္ရွားမႈေတြျပဳလုပ္ရတဲ့အတြက္ ႀကြက္သားေတြကိုလည္း က်စ္လစ္ခိုင္မာေစပါတယ္။ အ႐ိုးအဆစ္၊ ေက်ာ႐ိုးနဲ႔ ပုခံုးတို႔ တင္းမာမႈေတြကို ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ေပးျပီး အစာေျခစနစ္ကိုလည္း ပိုမိုေကာင္းမြန္ေစပါတယ္။ ေလထဲမွာလႈပ္ရွားျပီး စိတ္ေရာကိုယ္ပါေလ့က်င့္ေပးျခင္းအားျဖင့္ ခႏၶာကိုယ္က်စ္လစ္ေစျပီး အစာမေႀကတာ၊ ဝမ္းခဏခဏခ်ဳပ္တာတို႔ကို ကာကြယ္ေပးပါတယ္။ Flying ေယာဂကစားျခင္းေၾကာင့္လြတ္လပ္ေပါ့ပါးေစျပီး ေလေပၚဝဲေနေသာ ငွက္ေတာင္ေမႊးတစ္ခုလို ခံစားရေစမွာပါ။
Flying ေယာဂရဲ႕ ေရပန္းစားမႈ
အက်ိဳးရလဒ္ေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးသယ္ေဆာင္လာေပးတဲ့ Flying ေယာဂကို နိုင္ငံ တကာက နာမည္ႀကီးအနုပညာရွင္ေတြကလည္း နွစ္သက္ခံုမင္ႀကပါတယ္။ Flying ေယာဂ ကစားသူ အခ်ိဳ႕ကေတာ့ အေမရိကန္ နာမည္ႀကီးေမာ္ဒယ္ Ashley Graham၊ 90s ဖြားေတြရဲ႕ ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္အရြယ္က ႀကိဳက္နွစ္သက္ခဲ့ရတဲ့ အဆိုေတာ္လည္းျဖစ္၊ သ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္လည္းျဖစ္တဲ့ Vanessa Hudgens၊ Kpop ေလာကမွာ ေအာင္ျမင္ေနတဲ့ မိန္းကေလးအဆိုရွင္အဖြဲ႕ BlackPink ရဲ႕ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္ေတြနဲ႔ သူမတူထူးျခားတဲ့ အသံပါဝါ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖမႈပံုစံတို႔နဲ႔ ေအာင္ျမင္ေနတဲ့ Pop အဆိုေတာ္ Pink က Flying ေယာဂနဲ႔ သူမရဲ႕ ေအာင္ျမင္တဲ့သီခ်င္းျဖစ္တဲ့ “Just Like Fire” ကို ၂၀၁၆ Billboard Music Awards မွာ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ဘယ္မွာ ကစားႀကမလဲ?
Flying ေယာဂရဲ႕ လူႀကိဳက္မ်ား ေရပန္းစားမႈနဲ႔အတူ ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ႕မွာရွိတဲ့ ေယာဂ သင္တန္းေတြမွာလည္း အဲဒီအတြက္ သင္တန္းေတြကို ပို႔ခ်ေပးေနပါတယ္။ အဲဒီ အထဲက Flying ေယာဂ သင္ႀကားနိုင္တဲ့ သင္တန္းအခ်ိဳ႕ကေတာ့ Yoga Land, Beyond Boundaries Yoga Myanmar, Princess Yoga Studio, Yoga Myanmar တို႕ျဖစ္ျပီးေတာ့ Facebook နဲ႔ Google တို႔မွာလည္း အခ်က္ အလက္ေတြကိုအေသးစိတ္ထပ္ရွာေဖြႏိုင္ပါတယ္။
ဘာဝတ္ျပီး ကစားရမလဲ?
Flying ေယာဂ ကစားရာမွာ သက္ေသာင့္သက္သာရွိျပီး လႈပ္ရွားမႈေတြကို အလြယ္တကူျပဳလုပ္ႏိုင္ဖို႔ မၾကပ္လြန္း၊ မေခ်ာင္လြန္းတဲ့ အဝတ္အစားေတြကို ေရြးခ်ယ္သင့္ပါတယ္။ ေယာဂအတြက္ သီးသန္႔ထုတ္ထားတဲ့ အမ်ိဳးသမီး အမ်ိဳးသားအက်ႌ၊ ေဘာင္းဘီေတြကို အားကစားဆိုင္ေတြမွာ စိတ္တိုင္းက်ဝယ္ယူႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ဒီလိုမဟုတ္ဘဲ ကိုယ့္မွာရွိၿပီးသားအားကစားဝတ္စံုတစ္ခုခု၊ ေရးကူး ဒါမွမဟုတ္ စက္ဘီးစီး ေဘာင္းဘီ၊ အက်ႌေတြနဲ႕ တီရွပ္တို႔ကို ဝတ္ဆင္ၿပီးလည္းကစားႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ လက္အိတ္၊ ေျခအိတ္တို႔ကို ဝတ္ခ်င္ရင္လည္းဝတ္နိုင္ပါတယ္။အဓိကသတိျပဳရမယ့္ အခ်က္တစ္ခုကေတာ့ ကစားခ်ိန္မွာ လက္ဝတ္ရတနာနဲ႔ accessories မဝတ္ဆင္ဖို႔ပဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ေနာက္ဆံုးေျပာခ်င္တာကေတာ့ Flying ေယာဂကို အသက္(၈)ႏွစ္အရြယ္ကေလးကေနစၿပီး လူငယ္၊ လူႀကီးတို႔အထိ အသက္အရြယ္မေရြး ကစားႀကပါတယ္။ ဒီေယာဂကစားနည္းကို ကစားတာဟာ Trend ေနာက္လိုက္ခ်င္တာေႀကာင့္မဟုတ္ဘဲ ေန႔စဥ္က်န္းမာေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ျပီး မိမိကိုယ္ကိုယ္ ယံုႀကည္မႈရွိေစတာေႀကာင့္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေႀကာင့္ LUSH စာဖတ္ပရိသတ္ အေနနဲ႔လည္း ဘဝမွာ အနည္းဆံုး တစ္ခါေလာက္ေတာ့ Flying ေယာဂ ကစားႀကည့္ႀကဖို႕ တိုက္တြန္းလိုပါတယ္။ တစ္ႀကိမ္တစ္ခါ ကစားႀကည့္႐ံုနဲ႔ ႀကိဳက္နွစ္သက္ေစရမယ္လို႔လည္းရဲရဲဝံ့ဝံ့အာမခံလိုက္ပါရေစ။
(English Version)
Along with a country’s development, Yangon city is being crowded by high buildings, its people are busy working every day and night, which calls for a good physical activity or exercise to calm their minds and help reduce the stress originated from workplace or from exhausting daily life. While some of nice physical activities and exercises available are cycling, swimming, running, trekking, etc., most people these days intend to choose indoor activities such as rock climbing, Zumba dancing and Yoga to adjust with their busy schedule. And there goes ‘Flying Yoga’, also known as ‘Aerial Yoga’ is a popular choice among all those Yoga lovers in Yangon. So first, let me present what ‘Flying Yoga’ is, before why it is trending.
WHAT IS FLYING YOGA?
‘Flying Yoga’, mostly known as ‘Aerial Yoga’ or ‘Anti-Gravity Yoga’, a popular fitness trend across the globe, was originated in New York with the creation of Christopher Harrison, a well-known dancer, acrobat, choreographer and fitness professional as a new type of Yoga. It differs from the original one with Yoga mat with the combination of traditional Yoga poses, pilates, aerial acrobatics and dance with the use of a hammock which can be considered as a whole-body workout. A hammock that can support up to 300 kilos of weight plays the main role in ‘Flying Yoga’ as it allows the users to swing while supporting the hips in both forward and back bends and users can adjust the height as they prefer.
WHO CAN DO IT?
Of course, anyone, every enthusiast of all level of fitness can try it except pregnant women or those who suffer from vertigo. ‘Flying Yoga’ helps strengthen and stretch the whole body of user and it is strongly recommended for people who spend a long time sitting or those who have back pain. There are a variety of poses emerging to try out in ‘Flying Yoga’ but most beginners who don’t have stretching habits find it difficult to nail the poses. However, it is the best alternative available for people who want to go for Yoga but find traditional Yoga poses difficult as the performance in mid-air is easier with the support of hammock and last but not least, it has a fun twist over traditional Yoga.
Some of the popular poses are half boat pose, reclining angle pose, bound one-legged king pigeon pose, shoulder stretch in wrist wrap, star inversion and many more.
WHY FLYING YOGA?
So, let’s take a look at what makes ‘Flying Yoga’ such a popular choice amongst people of all ages and gender. A total-body workout of ‘Flying Yoga’ not only strengthens the performers physically but also emotionally. It strengthens the core, arms and legs as well as muscles with the total-body workout which force every part of the body to move around. Moreover, it increases the flexibility by easing out the tension in joints, spinal cord and shoulders while the digestive system is boosted with all those movements in midair. A mind-body exercise like ‘Flying Yoga’ is full-body firming and toning activity which helps decrease indigestion and constipation issues. I can guarantee that you will feel like a floating light feather in the air after enjoying ‘Flying Yoga’. That’s how it can relax your mind and loosen up the tension of body.
POPULARITY OF FLYING YOGA
‘Flying Yoga’ brings multiple benefits that it can even make celebrities across world so obsess with it. Some of the well-known celebrities who perform ‘Flying Yoga’ are a role model for all curvy women, American model – Ashley Graham, an idol in teenage days of Myanmar ladies born in 90s, American actress and singer – Vanessa Hudgens, successful American singer and song writer – Pink who even performed ‘Flying Yoga’ with Hammocks during the performance of her hit song ‘Just Like Fire’ at 2016 Billboard Music Awards and even the one of hottest k-pop girl groups – BlackPink’s members enjoy playing it and the list will never end. At last, you know what? Babies, yes! You won’t believe this but you can see babies and young girls performing ‘Flying Yoga’ at Yoga classes with or without their parents.
WHERE TO FIND?
As mentioned before, ‘Flying Yoga’ is a new trend in Myanmar that most Yoga clubs and classes are now offering ‘Flying Yoga’ courses to meet the customers’ preferences. Some of them are Yoga Land, Beyond Boundaries Yoga Myanmar, Princess Yoga Studio, Yoga Myanmar and you can just type in the names of mentioned Yoga clubs in Facebook search box or Google to access information.
WHAT TO WEAR TO ‘FLYING YOGA’?
The perfect clothing for ‘Flying Yoga’ is leggings, Yoga capris (workout capris are okay too), or Harlem pants. Most exercisers wear tank top as ‘Flying Yoga’ needs a lot of arm movements. If you haven’t buy a pair of clothing specialized for Yoga, you can just wear T-shirt, any sport wear or swim wear and bicycle shorts are okay as well as long as it is not too tight or too lose. Although gloves and socks are optional, it is recommended for the beginners. What to avoid wearing is any jewelry or accessories. Most importantly, it is the best to tie your long hair as the instructor won’t be freaked out thinking you are a ghost. It is optional to put Yoga mats under your hammock.
To be summarized, people of all age ranging from 8 to like 80 years old are doing ‘Flying Yoga’ not to follow up the trend but to keep themselves fit, confident and happy in their daily life. So, why don’t you go for at it least once? And you will find the fun of it in a few minutes. I can guarantee that you will get addicted to it immediately after trying it out for at least once.
