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Backpacking + yoga = relaxation
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The semester is starting to wind down as finals approach and
assignments intensify and many Boise State students are feeling a bit worn down and ready for the summer.
The end can’t be close enough for some.
To get things back into a refreshed perspective and be ready to take on the challenges of “end-of-semester syndrome” the BSU Outdoor Program and the Fitness Program of the Student Recreation Center are having their first ever yoga backpack trip.
“The yoga backpack trip is just an opportunity for members and nonmembers to experience yoga outdoors,” Lisa Stuppy, assistant director of fitness at the Rec Center, said. “We teach five yoga classes a week and we have a lot of outdoor trips and programs and we thought it would be kind of neat to combine the two.”
The idea behind the trip is that the natural surroundings will
enhance the yoga experience to make things very relaxing and
energizing. The trip isn’t aimed at any certain level of experience in yoga. Anyone is encouraged to go.
“Yoga is very individual and very noncompetitive,” Stuppy said.
“In yoga we practice honoring where you are today, what you can do today and not basing it on what you can do yesterday, or what you might be able to do tomorrow. Yoga in nature helps beginners and advanced people to always challenge themselves. If there are beginners out there I think they would thoroughly enjoy this trip as well as more advanced people.”
To go on this trip it costs $120 and fitness members enjoy a $40 discount. It includes special services like one-on-one attention from the yoga instructor. The people going on the trip won’t have anything to worry about except what they’re doing at that time.
“That covers everything from your food, your transportation, your equipment for the trip,” Outdoor Coordinator and camp guide Jesse Sears said. “So basically, all you need to show up with is the clothes that you’re wearing and your hiking shoes.”
Where the trip will take place hasn’t been completely figured out. But where they go will depends on two factors, one of them being the weather and the other being how isolated the site is.
They won’t be in a location with a lot people, which could hinder how relaxing the experience is. They do know the location will be somewhere here in beautiful Idaho and they see Bruneau, Rome and Rawlings Creek as possible places.
This trip will be just the first of many in which the Outdoor Program and Fitness Program will combine forces. They have already started talking about future trips and partnerships together.
“It’s a good marriage between the outdoors and fitness,” Sears said. “We’ll have more of this style of trips in the future so this is kind of the showcase. This is the launching of a partnership.”
People interested should be registered by April 16.
The trip has an introduction Wednesday, April 18, at the Student Recreation Center Classroom from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
They will head out early morning Saturday, April 21, and come back the evening of April 22. The three or four different yoga sessions, the hiking and the natural setting are sure to relieve all of your stress and get you through the end of the semester.
“Especially right before finals, as the semester goes on and on, it sometimes gets harder and harder to relieve your stress,” Stuppy said. “This will be a really good weekend to reset. Students can reset before they go into that last two weeks of classes and then finals.”
ADAM ADER
Sports Writer
