I'm about as a bendy as a telegraph pole, with the attention span of a gnat, so it's little wonder I've always struggled with yoga. Yes, I know of its benefits for mental clarity and physical wellbeing, but the prospect of spending at least an hour in a room holding single poses for minutes on end simply leaves me cold. Namaste? No thanks.

But when I heard about hip-hop yoga, I thought yo, I just could be down with that.

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The concept is somewhat contradictory: combining the stretching and breathing of yoga with booming and sometimes brash hip-hop.

You could be doing the downward dog to Jay-Z or making an eagle pose to Kanye West or 50 Cent, but the general principle is based on a dynamic Vinyasa Flow sequence practiced to old-school and new-school beats.