Budokon (my first home session)

When I usually suggest to my overstressed Barcelona lady friends to go to a yoga class to relieve their stress, they answer me by saying that yoga isn’t going to help.
They also say that they will probably prefer a kickboxing class.
They should really have a look at Budokon, this is what I will suggest to them the next time we meet. Budokon founded by Cameron Shayne integrates yoga, martial arts and Zen meditation.
I picked up the DVD – Budokon for beginners and I did the short workout (27 minutes), I’m glad I did this at night, here in Spain at this time of the year it is very hot, and the work out started with a series of yoga postures that build rapidly heat in the system .
I’m very familiar with the yoga postures used in the session (mountain pose,dog,warrior 1 & 2, cobra,etc….) I could to them by just listening without being distracted by watching a screen, supporting your own weight seemed to be the emphasis of this yoga session as well as building heat.
Right after the yoga part is the martial arts, the techniques are supposed to be drawn from Okinawan Karate-Do, Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, and Olympic Style Tae Kwon Do says the official Budokon website.
This part was vigourous and a lot of fun! after the martial arts work out there is a short traditional chi kung meditation to end the session.

I liked my first session of Budokon! Large-city people suffering from stress should have a look at it.

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