It’s not the deadlifts or the squats necessarily sometimes it’s just the fact that like a novelty helps us feel better. Bikram and Strength Training. I think like if I’m teaching strength training classes I think it has the same quality as yoga in a way. She aims to inspire others to get physically and mentally strong while using traditional yoga mixed with kettlebells, strength drills, and workouts. So that they could try different things while we were working out. Lizette Pompa: Yeah and also they use it as a complement and also as a way to, some people we’re experiencing a little bit of discomfort here and there, and they wanted to try to see if this will help lower back pain or here or there. Before we get any further I have to say, you don’t have to be in the gym to build your strength, you can do things at home with a small set of weights and resistance bands. So that’s why I bring also other stuff and then after a while once they get comfortable is like “well you know you can try six kilos”. ‎Show Mindful Strength, Ep Lizette Pompa: Strength Training to Complement Yoga - Jul 25, 2020 It’s incredible that my body has to learn all these new things. After taking her first Yoga TT in USA 2010, she moved to Stockholm with her now-husband to finally open their yoga studio Hot Yoga Uppsala in Uppsala, Sweden, in 2011. Why Cross-Train I like it, and I’ve been creating a nice community. Lizette Pompa: I actually started last year again. The gym has more equipment and thus more options, but if you just can’t stand it, I understand. Lizette: “I want to help them to find strength in their body in different ways”. Stream 167 Lizette Pompa: Strength Training to Complement Yoga by Mindful Strength Podcast w/ Kathryn Bruni-Young from desktop or your mobile device. In this Podcast, Lizette Pompa and Kathryn discuss how to incorporate strength training to complement yoga with the use of props such as dumbbells and kettlebells. Then you should try yoga. So when I started I would tell my students “I’m learning something new and so today I thought about trying this out”. And now so we use dumbbells kettlebells and resistance bands. Also, I don’t have to talk to the owner to put that in the schedule. We have vinyasa, we have hatha, yin yoga, and we have jivamukti for a while. I just remember our very brief conversation being so interesting and you got to tell people a little bit about how you started implementing strength and weights into your practice and into your studio. So before you got into yoga practice did you have another movement practice or another like mindfulness practice or anything like that? The more people I work with the more I see this playing out, we do poses and exercises with our body weight that are intense (because our bodies are heavy weights), but when we hold weights in our hands we feel nervous, like we are participating in something that might be dangerous. Your physical activity routine revolves around you, and no one else. But for as amazing as this 90 minute yoga discipline may be, supplementary strength training can help advance your practice and balance out your body.. You might think that if you are diligently working your muscles through strength training that you don’t need yoga and strength training is enough. Yoga is the perfect complement to strength training because of its mind-body benefits. I especially like the last bit when you really get to cool down or if you have a long savasana or if you have that moment for you to just kind of disappear at the end before you leave the room. 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