Singer Amy Winehouse has taken up yoga to help her fight her ongoing battle with alcohol and drugs. The British artist is practising Yogabeats with top teacher David Sye and has signed up for a six-month course, according to press reports.
David Sye is well known for Yogabeats - an upbeat style of yoga that has been described as "a cross between yoga, circuit training and a dance class."
The website goes as far as to say that this style of yoga is "unapologetically sexy, empowering and provocative, leaving you higher than a kite and flying for the rest of the week."
There is a strong chance Winehouse hopes this form of yoga will replace her psychological need for drugs with a natural, exercise-induced mood boost.
Twenty-four year old Winehouse has been suffering from alcohol and drug-related problems which have seen her hospitalised and sent to rehab.
David Sye launched Yogabeats after observing how children were unable to hold fixed static postures.
He began adopting slight, spontaneous movements within his own practice, and developed a funky, to-music-style of yoga that no doubt throws a chill down the spine of traditionalists.
"To me yoga not about being serious", Sye has said. "It's about feeling good."
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