More than 100 students spontaneously started doing yoga on College of Charleston’s Rivers Green – for South Carolina’s first yoga flash mob. Watch video.

Flash mobs have become popular over the past year – people come out of the crowd singing, dancing or now, doing yoga, spontaneously in a public place.

College of Charleston yoga instructor Skip Rector had the idea last semester. He says, “The students in my classes were extremely enthusiastic when I mentioned it and we just went from there.”

Rector has been teaching yoga in the Department of Health and Human Performance at the College of Charleston for 20 years. He teaches four classes a semester and there are still dozens of students asking for overrides in to the classes.

“Performing the mob with so many people doing yoga was empowering,” Rector says. “Students came together in unison to do something that is good for them individually and also to show observers that anyone can do yoga. Students are naturally drawn to yoga. They come to the class for many reasons, but leave with so much more than just knowing the positions.”

For more information, contact Skip Rector at 843.953.5558.