Quiet meditation on the water.
If you're a yoga enthusiast who loves being near the water, you may want to look into SUP (stand-up paddleboard) yoga, which is a combination of paddle-boarding and yoga in one. This popular yoga session is designed to challenge your strength and balance as you float across the water. Performed by floating on water, SUP yoga will invigorate you in the refreshing outdoors. Research has long pointed to the cognitive connection between nature and positive mood.
Relieve stress
Standing on a SUP board enlists all the core muscles together—transverse and rectus abdominals as well as the obliques. This activity also will fine-tune your mind-body connection as you hold focus during each pose. SUP yoga forces you to stabilize multiple muscle groups at one time in order to keep you balanced. This action will cause you to work muscles you didn't know you had.
Fine tune your mind-body connection
The link between yoga and stress reduction is clear. Partaking in regular sessions of this ancient practice has been shown to reduce depression, anxiety, and stress across test subjects. These results suggest that it could do the same for you. By offering immediate feedback—like falling in the water—paddleboarding also strengthens the body’s proprioceptors. According to Schenone, proprioception is a person's sense of their body in space.
