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Ashley Judd may look like she's training to perform adeath-defying act on America's Got Talent, but the actress is actuallyperfecting a new fitness routine in a series of videos posted on her Instagramaccount. Ashley, who looks to be in the best shape of her life, has taken up AcroYoga, which mixes yoga with acrobatics.
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According to the founders,it combines elements of trust with strength building as participants perfectacrobatic poses while working on flexibility and balance. "There is a joyful, beyond the mind,body melting away, suspended in time experience," Ashley wrote on Facebook in April after spending two weeks on an AcroYoga retreat.
The actress, 47, isn't the only celeb to embrace the newfitness craze – Lena Dunham has shared photos of her poses on Instagram, and NFL starTom Brady and supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen have also tried AcroYoga.
Ashley's mom, country star Naomi Judd, describes herdaughter's new passion as "Cirque du Soleil stuff."
"It's the strangest yoga I've ever seen in mylife," she told Extra last month. "She's just an expert at it. She'sdone yoga for 15 years. I keep wanting her to do American Ninja Warrior."
Ashley's other passion is Zumba and she showed off her moves– and her rock-hard abs at the 2015 Zumba Convention in Orlando, Florida, inAugust.
"It began as just a littlesomething good for the brain, with friends mentioning a class they reallyenjoyed," she wrote in a Facebook post. "It has transcended brainwork and become an experience of effervescent JOY. We laugh, hoot, shake, wiggle, and justhappen to sweat like stuck pigs (sorry for y'all who aren't country, that's anexpression I grew up with and it comes naturally). Ifyou haven't tried Zumba yet, consider stretching yourself and making a class."
