Cy-Yo contines to gain popularity and promenice with each passing day. With each day, new questions and get sent to us, so we thought we would answer some of the most common ones here…

1. What is Cy-Yo and where does it come from?

   Cy-Yo (Cycling-Yoga) is a workout program that begins with a yoga warm up in order to invigorate the muscles and lubricate the joints. After the yoga flow warm up is completed, a 40-45 minute indoor cycling class is next. During the indoor cycling class, particular attention is paid to energy centers in the body, the use of transformational language, and focusing our mind and spirit to enhance our physical results. After the indoor cycling class, there is a yoga flow cool down in order to elongate the muscles and focus the mind, body, and spirit. Classes usually take around an hour to complete.

   Cy-Yo was developed north of Boston by a fitness instructor who is certified in yoga and indoor cycling. In trying to bridge the chasm between Western style “no-pain no-gain” philosophy and Eastern style “mind, body and spirit as one” concepts, Cy-Yo was created. Cy-Yo offers the physical and spiritual benefits of yoga as well as the cardio, fat burning benefits of an indoor cycling class.

2. What is BLove and what does it have to do with Cy-Yo?

   Blove, symbolized by the letter “B” with a heart symbol after it, is the first and most important rule of Cy-Yo. Be love to yourself and your body. Don’t judge yourself against anyone else. Be kind to yourself. With this general rule, once we can love ourselves and be love to our own bodies, we can then in turn act in a loving manner towards others. The more ways you express love for others and our planet, the more love that comes back to you. Remember, When in doubt, or when you find yourself in a situation where you are not sure what to do….be love. Do what love would do in that situation.

3. How do I get a Cy-Yo class at my gym?

   Cy-Yo is licensed out at a very reasonable rate from Cy-Yo, Inc. The licensing fee for a gym to offer Cy-Yo classes for year is less than the price of a cardio cross training machine. Once a gym is licensed by Cy-Yo, Cy-Yo, Inc. will send out a representative to do a one-day training for instructors at that gym. See the “Gym Owners” section of the website for more information.

4. Cy-Yo sounds great, can I become a Cy-Yo instructor?

   Yes. Once a gym is licensed by Cy-Yo, Inc. then Cy-Yo classes can be offered and promoted there. In order to teach Cy-Yo, an individual must first be indoor cycling certified (this can be done in one day) and yoga certified (this can be done in a weekend). After that, he or she must attend the one day training class from Cy-Yo, Inc. and pass the certification test in order to become a registered instructor from Cy-Yo, Inc. See the “Instructors” part of the website for more information.

5. Why yoga and cycling, and not yoga/aerobics or yoga/muscle fitness?

   Yoga and cycling are both non-evasive and non-compact on the hips and knees. This is very important for people of all ages, but especially for anyone over 35. Putting unnecessary stress on the knee and hip joints can have serious consequences later on in life. Both yoga and cycling have a rhythm and flow that are similar. Instead of locking our joints and putting pressure on our feet like an aerobics class, cycling allows for a circular motion that repeats itself over and over. Indoor cycling also offers one of the most efficient cardio, fat burning workouts available in a gym today. It is easy to monitor such things as heart rate and resistance while on an indoor cycling bike. Since yoga deals with isometric training and stretching of muscle, the cardio aspect of indoor cycling is a perfect complement to yoga, like a yin-yang that make a circle.

6. Is the indoor cycling part of Cy-Yo just like a regular indoor cycling class?

   No. During the indoor cycling part of a Cy-Yo class, the instructor uses the transformational language you may find in yoga class to focus the mind and to burn off negative energy. For example, in a Cy-Yo class you may have an instructor who will encourage you to “pedal with your positive energy” for a song, or “pedal against your negative energy” for a song. Visualization exercises like feeling your chakra energy or your heat center energy might also be examples of phrasing used in a Cy-Yo class. Bringing mind and spirit awareness into our physical workouts helps to enhance our physical results, relieve unwanted stress, and increase the positive energy in our bodies.

7. What are “vibrations” and “vibrational energy” that Cy-Yo talks about?

   Positive energy and negative energy exist in our body. Energy, on an atomic level, is held in bonds between protons, neutrons, electrons and atoms. These bonds are so tight and they vibrate so quickly together that things appear to be solid. A rock, a pencil, our bodies, are all made up of vibrating atoms, that vibrate so closely together that we appear to be one solid mass. In reality, we are made up of tiny protons, neutrons, and electrons all vibrating and oscillating in patterns.

   When we are happy, our energy flow is higher, and our atoms are vibrating at a high speed. When we are feeling bad, the vibrations in our body are slower and weaker. By trying to visualize our negative energy and keeping it in our consciousness as we do heavy cardio work, we can release the bonds that hold in that negative and “burn it off”. By doing yoga, we can also release tension held in our joints, muscles and organs. In contrast, when we have a positive energy flow, our vibration is high and we feel light and happy.

   We try to get from a low vibration level to a high vibration level by ridding the body of stress and anxiety, and enhancing our positive energy flow. The highest vibration level we can get to has been named by society as “love”. Hence, “being in love” is just that, being in the highest vibration level we can achieve. We try to reach that pure, free energy level during each Cy-Yo class by flushing out the negative energy held in our body and increasing our positive energy flow and circulation.

8. How come there are no “before and after pictures” on the website?

   We only exist in the present. We cannot go back in the past, and we cannot live in the future. There is only the present. Each morning we wake up and make choices on whom we are what we want to be in life. Judging ourselves against our past is not a goal of Cy-Yo. Live in the present, live in each moment. The past is the past, so leave it there. The future is limitless and infinite, you should define who and what you want to be in each moment of your life. Hence, looking at yourself in the past, is a nice trivia piece, but means nothing to whom you are today and who you decide to be in the future. Also, before and after pictures focus only on the physical changes to your physical being. It gives no indication of how your mind and spirit have changed.

9. How come there are no pictures of the founder or staff?

   Cy-Yo is for everyone. By seeing a picture or associating a face with Cy-Yo certain natural stereotypes and judgments appear in our consciousness. Does he or she look well groomed? Do they have a collared shirt on? Glasses? All of these features conjure up judgments in our heads. Cy-Yo is a mind, body, and spirit workout that each person should define for themselves, without the outside influences of a visual face. Did you ever read a book without looking at the picture of the author? Did your opinion of the book change when you looked at the author’s picture? Did he or she look like what you thought they would look like in your head? These types of natural judgments that Malcolm Gladwell writes about in Blink are what we are hoping to eliminate.

   

10. Is there a diet associated with Cy-Yo?

    No. A diet implies a “giving up of something for a period in order to change our bodies”. Then what happens after the diet period is over? Diets, by definition, are doomed to fail. Unless you start a “diet for life”, then you will have to come off the diet at sometime. If you start a “diet for life”, then it can’t be called a diet anymore. It would be called an eating pattern change, and you wouldn’t need a diet if you changed your eating patterns. Instead of telling you not to eat something, Cy-Yo would rather look at why you are eating something and what are the underlying reasons for that food intake. During the indoor cycling part of Cy-Yo, food can be examined in our lives, how we use it, what it symbolizes for us, what other reasons, other than sustenance, do we use in our lives in order to eat.

11. Can I do a Cy-Yo class at my gym and call it something else?

    No. Cy-Yo has a patent pending in Federal court. The process of working out that involves a yoga beginning, followed by indoor cycling, and ending with yoga ending has a Federal patent pending. All of the logos and symbols involved in Cy-Yo have been trademarked and registered.