This Valentine’s weekend, you might want to try a fitness fix. We should all be familiar with Elle Woods’ sage wisdom about exercise, endorphins, and happiness. Channel your frustration with your ex into kickboxing, or spend a mindful yoga session with a partner. We advise offsetting your excessive consumption of chocolate (We all do it.) with these Valentine’s fitness specials.
MINDFUL MOOD-ENHANCERS
If you’re feeling thrifty, try Cosmic Café. This Buddha-filled restaurant won D Magazine’s Reader’s Choice two years in a row for its vegetarian cuisine and offers daily yoga classes, complete with a meditation room. The classes operate on an optional $5 donation basis. If you’re not worried about the bad karma, you can skip the payment and enjoy a relaxing yoga session alone or with your date. Afterward, reward yourself by sampling some of the restaurant’s delicious vegetarian creations.
Some yogis are more ambitious than others. The Yoga Movement is offering a Valenthai and Fly couples yoga class from 2-4 p.m. Feb. 13, not far from SMU’s campus. Budding yogis will warm up with partner yoga, then learn how to hold someone up and massage them. You don’t even have to bring a partner. They work in groups of three, which means at one point, you’ll end up getting a double massage! You might learn how to achieve some of those Instagram-worthy partner yoga poses you’ve secretly always envied. Classes are $35 per person or $60 for a couple. (Make sure to reserve your spot online.)
Stay limber on Valentine’s Day with Summit Climbing, Yoga & Fitness’ Feb. 14 special. For $12, you get a day pass to climb and do yoga all day (meaning 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.). This deal is perfect for couples who may have differing interests when it comes to working out. Passes are $3 less than the regular day pass.
PHILANTHROPIC FITNESS
Ever heard of Cupid’s Undie Run? Starting at noon Feb. 13, this one-mile fun run puts the “hilarity in charity” by raising money for the Children’s Tumor Foundation. Whether you run half-naked through the streets of Dallas or choose to donate from your couch at home (also in your underwear), the proceeds go to a nonprofit dedicated to supporting children with a set of genetic disorders called Neurofibramatosis and to funding research for a cure. Learn more about the tumor-causing condition and the children who were born with it here. The run starts at 6th Street Bar.
KICKBOXING
Love hating Valentine’s Day or coupledom in general? Try kicking the stuffing out of a punching bag to channel your aggression towards your ex at kickboxing chains like iLoveKickBoxing (with locations in Richardson and Plano). Remember, you can take any of these classes as fast or slow as you need–but getting moving might be just the thing this Valentine’s Day.
