Dungeons and Dragons yoga classes are being given in Brooklyn, NY! [video]

A Brooklyn yoga instructor has taken the classic tabletop game of Dungeons and Dragons and applied it to his yoga classes. Scott Wayne Indiana wanted to take the story telling in yoga classes and make them more interesting by applying a Dungeons and Dragons theme to it. With the help of his friend and fellow artist Eric Hagan and movement instructor Sarah Danke, the result really took off.

The yoga instructor, now called the Dungeon Master, describes the fictional setting in which the class is traveling through. The yoga poses that are performed during the class are renamed to sound like actions that characters do in the game. In order to involve more of the game into the class, participants roll gaming dice in order to determine whether or not they were successful in their actions in the story.

"“The goal was to complete an entire quest, in this case returning the mysterious package to an ancient temple to absolve yourself,” Hagan told WIRED. “The participants rolled dice at key points in the story: during battle, to check for success in hiding, climbing, searching the room, and also to avoid the trap which sprung out at them… In future versions I would probably re-work the roll of the die to be more pivotal in swaying the story, but it was amazing to have a whole room full of people in sync rolling to determine their fate.”"

At the moment it seems as though yoga participants are willing to try out the hybrid class since it offers a new and fresh experience. Below you can take a look at a great video of the class. Think you'd be interested to try out Dungeons and Dragons Yoga?



Source: Wired