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Brandy Winfield, Ann Marie Paul, and
Afton Carraway - 2010 USA Yoga Champions
Photo: USAYoga. Used with permission
This August, Kansas City Bikram Yoga will host the Midwest Regional Yoga Asana Competition, an event that will bring together yoga practitioners from Kansas, Missouri, and Tennessee to demonstrate proficiency in alignment, physical strength, and flexibility.
Students from any school or style of yoga are welcome to participate, including Hatha, Bikram, Vinyasa, or Ashtanga practitioners. Separate divisions are offered for men, women, boys, and girls. Boys' and girls' division are for ages 11 through 17.
The competition consists of a series of seven postures, which contestants must complete in three minutes. Five poses are mandatory: standing head to knee, standing bow, bow, rabbit, and stretching pose. The other two postures are yogi’s choice. Competitors are judged on strength, stamina, balance, flexibility, alignment, difficulty of the optional poses, and overall execution.
The Midwest Regional Yoga Asana Competition will be held August 7, 2010, at the Center for Spiritual Living, 1306 West 39th Street in Kansas City. Winners of the regional competition will advance to the National and International Championships, held in Los Angeles in February. Anyone interested in participating, either as a competitor or a demonstrator, is welcome to contact Angela Sinclair Moulin, director of Kansas City Bikram Yoga, for more information.
To read more on the topic of competitive yoga, please visit Is competitive yoga a contradiction?
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