Tampa Bay Rays’ third baseman does yoga for charity

Talk about having a little life balance. Tampa Bay Rays' third baseman and two-time Golden Glove winner Evan Longoria recently started practice with a headstand. He told the St. Petersburg Times that this is his favorite yoga position, one that he shared with a dozen other people as part of a charity event to raise money for the Moffitt Cancer Center.

Longoria has been practicing yoga for the past three years, during which time he was named the American League's Rookie of the Year and was picked for three consecutive All-Star games.

Though he had not ever organized such a charity event before, he remarked to MLB.com that he would consider making it a monthly event.

"I had never really heard of somebody doing yoga for charity, so that was kind of what I put my finger on," he told the news source.

In the meantime, his personal yoga regimen remains unchanged, not to mention his favorite yoga posture.

"Doing the upside-down stuff is the most fun for me," he told the Times.

While standing on one's head isn't the only method for holistically redirecting energy to the mind, it's certainly one of the more straightforward ways.

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