This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at U Conn chapter.
Electric yoga is part of the program called Coriculum that started with the idea of wanting to get college students moving by combining Zumba and yoga with fun lights and great music.They travel from campus to campus and put on their event. Some of their profit goes to the charity Move For Hunger. The Electric Yoga Experience put on a great program, leaving students from UConn hoping the program will return!
When you think of yoga, you think of a small warm room with everyone on mats listening to soothing music. The electric yoga experience is nothing like that. When you walk into the room, pillars of black lights give the room a purple glow. Dancers with hula hoops and highlighter on their arms and legs walked around the room. It almost seems like a glow in the dark circus.
When the program begins, and instructor walked around the room telling us which positions to do. The instructor was funny and energetic and when patrticipants were asked to hold a chair position, she would walk around and act as the chair until the minute was up. The program ended yoga with a meditation while participants relaxed their bodies onto the mat or floor.
After yoga, there was twenty straight minutes of zumba – twenty minutes of dancing and jumping and squatting while everyone glowed with neon and glow sticks! Most people danced around and attempted to follow the three instructors on the stage who shouted out instructions. The lead instructor, hip on the happenings of the Jersey Shore, motivated participants to fist-pump along to the music. The difficultly of the program matched Bodywise Zumba.
Overall, the whole experience may be quite new to participants, and can be described as a cool and great work to do with friends! Participants can bond over the tricky yoga postions and laugh while trying to keep up with the Zumba Instructors. HC UConn approves this event and hopes that the program returns!
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