At a time when you can stream free online yoga instruction, on demand, into your front room, the collective power of a class can sometimes be overlooked. But Stretch City Hong Kong's OmTogether in collaboration with Green Summer Festival, will go to the opposite extreme.
The event, at the Central Harbourfront Event Space on September 14, hopes to attract a patchwork of hundreds of mats, on which all shapes, sizes and ages of yogis, yoginis, and beginners, will experience asanas and mindfulness to a soundtrack of yogic tunes.
Miko Bantigue, chief executive of Stretch City Hong Kong, participated in Summer Solstice Yoga in New York's Times Square. He was further inspired by the capital's Fashion's Night Out, when he created Stretch Saturday, which brought together 10 yoga studios and 10 yoga-friendly restaurants and shops in Hong Kong in July.
"Instead of shopping, our version got people taking classes from studio to studio, and taking advantage of deals at participating restaurants and stores," Bantigue says.
"For OmTogether, we're taking yoga out of the studio and into the heart of Central."
At OmTogether, she'll be taking students through a series of Vinyasa poses, designed to align movement and breath.
