JOGA is an athletic based style of yoga that incorporates a unique blend of postures to find balance in strength and flexibility, a variety of breathing techniques to improve breath control/recovery and relaxation tools to maintain a calm mind in sport and in life. The sessions will leave you feeling stronger, more flexible and re-energized as well as provide you with all the other physiological and psychological benefits of yoga. Athletes are often both results based and achievement oriented people, so they want to feel and see results while also understanding the reasons behind what they are doing. The Joga system is designed in a way to follow the pattern of a fitness regime but still adhere to the sequencing of the traditional yoga session. Each movement has a specific que and a physical or mental benefit associated with it. Joga takes into consideration what athletes require in a training program: structure, challenge and results. The difference between JOGA and yoga is that JOGA was designed for athletes and athletic movements. Traditional yoga involves static long holds, which doesn’t necessarily makes sense for athletic movements. The muscles become overstretched and the neurosystem can’t keep up with the stretch of the muscle, so athletes come out “flat”. JOGA is a movement system that emulates cadence of movements in sports and focuses on dynamic stretching. The goal is not flexibility but balance of strength and flexibility. It’s a system that is designed to be implemented into an athletes training as a compliment to existing training and/or competition. The system involves 4 segments that can be executed all at once and used as a functional workout or individual segments can be used for dynamic warm-ups and/or stretching and relaxation. The movements/postures are the same every time and are infiltrated with bench mark postures so practitioners can test their own results in terms of finding a balance of strength and flexibility. The focus of JOGA is to educate participants about the mechanics of the body, how to move within the body’s limitations, and overall awareness of body intelligence. JOGA has been described as a “pre-rehabilitation and rehabilitation yoga system.” JOGA speaks to the Athletic Body and Athletic Mind. What is the Joga System?
- Joga is a system of movement that is designed to improve athletic ability by educating athletes on how to move kinetically, how to syndicate and integrate core and breath throughout movement patterns, and how to use breath to elicit relaxation and regulate sleep patterns
- The design of the system replicates cadence and biomechanics of movement in sports and showcases where common injuries take place during movement-> Injuries happen in movement, so the long holds that we find in traditional yoga don’t necessarily make sense athletically
- The system is NOT designed to make athletes more flexible, it designed to balance the body in terms of strength and flexibility-> Athletes need to be tight to some degree for their explosive movements and not too flexible so that they come out flat
Below are the following locations that offer JOGA classes:
Canada
Alberta
Calgary
The Yogis Den
11540 24th Street SE
Calgary, AB, T2Z 3E9
403-455-9644
www.theyogisden.com
Edmonton
Barre Body Studio
Unit 184 4211-106 ST
Edmonton, AB
780-757-2773
barrebodystudio.com
Blitz Conditioning
10575 115 Street NW
Edmonton, AB, T5H 3K4
780-655-5347
blitzconditioning.com
YMCA of Edmonton – Don Wheaton Family YMCA (Central)
10211 102 Avenue
Edmonton, AB, T5J 0A5
780-452-9622
www.northernalberta.ymca.ca
British Columbia
Kelowna
Complete Core
101-5309 Min Street (Kettle Valley)
Kelowna, BC, V1W 4V3
250-863-8108
www.completecorepilates.com
Karma Yoga and Fitness
1445 Ellis Street
Kelowna, BC, V1Y 2A3
250-717-1227
www.kelownahotyogastudio.com
NeuMovement
310 – 1974 Kane Road
Kelowna, BC, V1V 3C4
250-712-0678
www.neumovement.com
UBC Okanagan Recreation Facility
3333 University Way
Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7
250-807-9200
www.ubc.ca/okanagan/recfacilities/welcome.html
Vancouver
Steve Nash Fitness Club
610 Granville Street
Vancouver, BC
604-288-4551
www.snclubs.com
The Hot Box Yoga
3313 Shrum Lane
Vancouver, BC
1-844-484-YOGA (9642)
www.thehotboxyoga.com/
Manitoba
Brandon
Outperforme Athletics
1100 Richmond Avenue
Brandon, MB
204-721-0703
www.outperforme.com
Winnipeg
Yoga Public
280 Fort Street
Winnipeg, MB, R3C 1E5
204-947-9642
www.yogapublic.com
Ontario
Kingston
Power Play Centre
820 Gardiners
Kingston, ON, K7M 3X9
613-634-9919
www.powerplaycentre.com
Mitchell
LiveWell4Life
3878 Wellington Street
Mitchell, ON, N0K 1N0
519-348-4600
www.livewell4life.ca
Toronto
energyXchange
698 Queen Street East
Toronto, ON, M4M 1G9
416-727-9884
myenergyxchange.com
Chi Junky
70 McGee Street
Toronto, ON, M4M 2K9
416-466-7447
www.chijunky.com
United States
California
Manhattan Beach
Amenzone Fitness
2317 N. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
(310) 598-7597
www.amenzone.com/locations/ca/manhattan-beach
San Diego
P.B. Yoga and Healing Arts
961 Turquoise Street
San Diego, CA 92109
1 858-488-7774
pbyogaandhealingarts.com
Hidden Gem Yoga
3455 Camino Del Rio South
San Diego, CA 92108
www.hiddengemyoga.com
