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SCMP Reporter

Looking for new ways to keep active and fit this weekend? Here are five to check out, including some that are family friendly – from aerial yoga with kids, to a Sunday morning walk/talk/run, and hot Pilates. Get moving!
1. Parent-child anti-gravity yoga workshop
Turn your kids – and yourself – on your head at this special yoga class that will have you work in parent-child pairs on the mat – and in the hammock.
The 90-minute session includes meditation to help develop concentration, stretching to lower stress and improve flexibility, and inversion, going upside down, to build confidence. Children aged five to 11 are welcome at The Yoga Room, 3/F, 104 Jervois Street, Sheung Wan.
The class is on Saturday from 2.30-4pm.
The cost is HK$500 per pair, HK$200 per extra child. Click here for details and to book.

2. Hong Kong Book Fair and Sports & Leisure Expo
Immerse yourself in the Olympic spirit at the Hong Kong Sports Institute’s booth. Have your photo taken holding words of encouragement to add to the “cheering wall” in support of Hong Kong athletes who will be participating in the Paris Olympic Games.
Then check out the Fitness Test Zone to assess your own sports potential. Three stations there allow you to measure your vertical jump ability, shoulder flexibility and hand grip strength.

At the Sports Experience Zone, try simulated road and track cycling – to understand Olympian competitors’ challenges.
At The Hong Kong Playground Association’s Sports Base Camp, a coach will guide you to cross checkpoints in a 15-metre parent-child zip-line experience.
A single ticket gets visitors into all three shows at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre: the Hong Kong Book Fair, the Sports and Leisure Expo and Snack World. The cost is HK$30 for adults and HK$10 for children; entry is free for children under 3 and adults 65 or over.
The Sports and Leisure Expo opens on Saturday from noon until 10pm, and on Sunday from noon until 7pm.
For details, click here.
3. Silent Inside Flow disco on the waterfront
Bring a yoga mat and head on down to Sun Yat Sen Park on Saturday evening from 6 to 7.15pm. There you will don a pair of wireless glowing headsets to listen to music and instructions from yoga instructor Enting Man from The Yoga Room.
Yogis of all levels are welcome.
The cost is HK$200, and includes freebies from Pocari Sweat and UL.OS skincare to keep you hydrated and glowing under the setting sun.
For details, click here.

4. #FillYourCup The Run/Walk/Talk Collective Event 004
On Sunday morning,, meet up before 9am at The Station, a Sheung Wan coffee shop at 18 Upper Station Street, to join in a monthly initiative to support and build awareness around mental health and cancer sufferers.
Choose to join a group to go for a short run or a walk or simply chat with others. The idea is to support one another and show that no one has to be alone on the journey of life. Meet back at The Station by 11am.
The event is free, but donations to co-organiser charity Phenomenally Pink to support its efforts to raise cancer awareness and cover the cost of breast checks for those that can’t afford them are welcomed.
For details, click here.
5. Infrared Pilates at Defin8
Hot Pilates is hot on social media. Defin8 offers the city’s first experience that combines the radiant therapeutic heat of infrared heat panels – which penetrates the skin to heat the body’s core – with Pilates Reformer movements. The heat can help loosen the muscles more quickly for a wider range of motion and endurance.
The movements promote flexibility and joint mobility and emphasise lengthening and elongating the muscles.
There are multilevel classes, from 9 to 9.50am and from 6 to 6.50pm on Saturday,, and from 2 to 2.50pm on Sunday.. Participants choose their own intensity level – beginner, experienced or advanced.
Defin8 is at 17F Silver Fortune Plaza, 1 Wellington Street, Central.
For details, click here.
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Cheer on Olympic athletes and check your own athletic ability, do yoga in a hammock, support charities at a Sunday morning meet-up, and more


Yoga with your kids or outdoors, hot Pilates, a group run, walk or chat in aid of a good cause, or try some simulated Olympic sports – there are plenty of chances to get active in Hong Kong this weekend. .
