Electroyoga

ElectroYoga is a short form hybridized term for the words Electronic and Yoga. It's often used to describe a type of music or a public event where electronic music is used to support the practice of yoga in a group session.

Background

The popularity of yoga in North America has now moved into the mainstream consciousness of the population to become one of the fastest growing health trends. Most noted is in the fashion industry which has experienced an explosive growth in tight fitting yoga apparel. The music industry has also embraced this trend with popular music artists recording songs and producing music videos that feature yoga in their choreography. The popular song "Yoga" was listed as Time Magazine's 9th favourite song of 2015. Music specifically recorded, marketed and sold for the practice and instruction of Yoga known as ElectroYoga has now gone mainstream and has given birth to a genre of music playlist that includes soft new age ambient tones and high energy dance beats. This variety of music takes the practitioner of yoga through a dance type of workout with transitions to a calm meditation for shavasana.

Yoga fashion and music trends has helped to move the practice of Yoga beyond the afternoon meditation and fitness classes into dance studios and night clubs where people socialize and share their interest in yoga's health-conscious lifestyle. In a public performance event, unlike a typical dance club where the audience is free to roam, the participant of an ElectroYoga event brings their yoga mat and "claims" the floor space for the duration of the event. The electro-music DJ is often a well known yoga instructor who leads the audience through a set of yoga poses timed to the beat of appropriate ElectroYoga music and psychedelic mood lighting.

References

Yoga Music Goes Mainstream, Geoff Wood - ABC News. June 2015