Why more people are learning poi spinning and how it is therapeutic for them

Updated On: 18 May, 2023 10:59 AM IST | Mumbai | Nascimento Pinto

As people take up different kinds of off-beat activities in the city, there is one that is getting a lot of people to move more than they would have ever thought they could. They are being able to do this by spinning pois – right here in Mumbai and achieve all kinds of mental and physical benefits

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Many Mumbaikars have taken up spinning the poi for different reasons including mental and physical benefits. Photo Courtesy: Sagar Pitale/Nitya Vyas/Janhavi Ajgaonkar

Nitya Vyas always had the habit of spinning her ID cards in her hand in college and that continued till now, where she keeps rotating her office ID card continuously when she is at the office. It so happened that one of her friends saw this. She narrates, “My friend asked me, ‘Do you know what you are doing, or have you seen it somewhere?’” Vyas told the friend that she had no idea what they were talking about, but just spinning the card because it relaxes her. “My friend told me I am doing poi sport and encouraged me to do it properly,” adds Vyas, who is happy to have discovered the poi spinning community.

There are so many different offbeat activities that are being done by people in Mumbai that aren’t limited to the summer but throughout the year. While some of them involve sports like skateboarding, slacklining and surfing, others are going beyond that to pursue varied interests such as pole fitness, belly dancing and even hula hooping. As the plethora of activities increases by the day, the Covid-19 pandemic has also made people explore more of these different kinds of activities. The most recent one that is catching the attention of Mumbaikars has been spinning poi (pronounced as po-eh) and the summer season somehow seems like the best time to explore it.

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