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Working out is taking on a new edge at a Fredericton nightclub where live music is being mixed with the breathing exercises and stretching of yoga.
"The traditional goal of yoga was self-realization," said Erin Ball, who instructs the Punk Rock Yoga class at the downtown Boom nightclub. "Now we really focus a lot on the physical benefits."
Punk Rock Yoga began in Seattle in 2003 in an effort to attract teenagers to the exercise program.
The program "rebels" against accepted notions of what yoga is and stereotypes around punk rock, founder Kimberlee Jensen Stedl says on her website.
"It confronts the notion that punks are angry miscreants and that yogis are contortionistic hippies," Jensen Stedl writes.
Classes are offered in Chicago, New York and Toronto. The first classes were held in Fredericton on Feb. 28.
"I guess it's really not intimidating and it's just attracting a different crowd, getting people who wouldn't normally go into a yoga studio," Ball said.
Newcomers can drop in to the alternative yoga class on Thursday nights.
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