Snakes On A Yoga Mat

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New Fitness Trend: Snake Yoga

Yoga is suppose to be relaxing, not sure how you can get yourself centered with a python crawling on you. A reptile store out of Portland, Oregon is allowing yoga practitioners to do downward dog and other yoga poses with live snakes!

Here’s how it works.  An instructor leads the class while staff “carefully” handle the reptiles.  And in case you’re wondering, the snakes are mostly pythons and boa constrictors, There’s even a baby boa named Mango.  How cute right?

Some people are there because they love snakes . . . and others come to face their fears.   And they say a lot of people end up loving the feeling.  One student even compared the snakes to a weighted blanket. Here’s what the instructor had to say, “That firm constriction almost feels like a yoga adjustment or a gentle massage.”

Photo by Jakub Neskora on Unsplash

Courtesy of NPR