Ms. Namita Nayyar:
You started your own venture “Yogasthenics” which is a combination of many different forms of training, tell us how did the idea click and how is it different from regular yoga programs?
Ms. Rupal Sidhpura Faria:
I started RUPALS YOGASTHENICS 3 years back. I’m a yoga teacher at my core, but I’ve always been open to trying different workouts. I’ve done crossfit, I’ve been a Zumba Instructor, I teach Aqua Yoga, I teach functional training and all of this out together furthermore got me inclined to take up and be a kettlebell and flexibar instructor. I stepped on my mat 4-5 days of the week and same was with the other workouts. I started focussing on how the workouts and Yoga started complimenting each other. And started experimenting on the workouts and making different fusion WODs. I used these workouts on Specially Kareena Kapoor Khan, Anurag Kashyap, Saif Ali Khan, Alia Bhatt, Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti to name a few.
I curated a brand of workouts thereafter specially for the body types keeping not just weight loss, but also therapy, flexibility, strength, emotional and moral strength in mind. Being a yoga teacher really helped me inculcate all the motivations of yoga into The Rupals Yogasthenics workout.
No sooner I started implementing these workouts, modified and curated for Pre-Natal Yoga and started training Soha Ali Khan and Surveen Chawla amongst others with the programme.
Ms. Namita Nayyar:
Everybody is unique and so are the physical, emotional and healing needs. You have a long list of celebrity clientele, tell us what things you keep in mind while designing a routine for your clients considering their schedules and hectic lifestyle? 5 key essentials for a successful routine.
Ms. Rupal Sidhpura Faria:
I’m very very grateful to have all those celebrities who have been very very dedicated to the classes with me. They’ve been the ones who’ve motivated me to do better and teach better.
My classes with all of the above have been very different. Everyone I teach has a different body type and different needs physically, mentally, emotionally. I keep atleast two workouts handy for each one of them.
For eg. when I have a class with Kareena Kapoor there are times when we have Saif Ali Khan Joining us for class and for both of them I do workouts that are world’s apart. But it’s great to have them workout together because there’s always motivation and encouragement in a partner workout or partner yoga. It’s more fun too. Apart from the basics like body type, how much time they have, what kind of training does the body type need eg. strength or cardio or flexibility or just meditation and Breathwork…targets and motivation….injuries and ailments etc etc
I keep two workouts handy because when I enter the workout space with them, at first, apart from the above, I see what their state of mind is. I keep their body type in mind, I now know which workout is suitable to them on which day. There’s most times when I am asked to change my workout when they don’t want to do intense. The best students I’ve had so far are Kareena Kapoor Khan and Anurag Kashyap. They’re so dedicated and amazing at their workouts and such strong willed humans. They’ll never say never!
Ms. Namita Nayyar:
You have been dealing with prenatal clients as well, tell us any 3 prenatal yoga must-do every day poses?
Ms. Rupal Sidhpura Faria:
Every pregnancy is different from the other. There’s no two poses that could be the same in case of complications. But under a registered Yoga practitioner without any complications the common most and beneficial is the Baddha Konasana, Wide Legged Forward fold and Child’s pose would be a few of many many asanas that pregnant women can do.