Hot Yoga Gets You Through Tax Season
Give us your tired, inflexible, overworked and overtaxed, beaten down and stressed out, and we'll light a fire under you.
That's our promise at Riverflow Yoga.
It's tax season; just add that to your usual pile of stress. You may arrive with all sorts of physical and emotional issues, from low back pain to low moods. And right away, you're in the right place. In my 15 years teaching and practicing hot yoga I've seen a wide variety of issues...and a great many hot yoga miracles.
Our responsibility as Riverflow hot yoga teachers is not just to deliver the hot yoga instructions, but to guide you safely into the person you want to be; to do so, we hold you in a delicate balance:
- We listen as you describe your ailments
- We don't let your perceptions get in the way of your ability to do hot yoga fully, to the best of your ability
How does that work exactly?
It's a unique way of viewing you as you come to our yoga studio, and unique gift all Riverflow teachers are trained to give; we have compassion for your specific situation, but we won't see you as any less capable than anyone else. Eventually, through our hot yoga coaching and your own patience and perseverance, you will come to see yourself with newfound possibility.
There are literally thousands of stories of how hot yoga has helped, a list that is endless yet growing.
If you are human, hot yoga will have something to offer you. Hold that vision of getting maximum benefit from each hot yoga class and you will come to know firsthand that your potential self, is your real self.
No matter what the situation, hot yoga remain the same:
- Do each pose to the best of your ability today
- Follow the teacher's pose instructions without variation
- Take a pose off if needed. Savasana is a fantastic alternate pose, not a failure.
There are some more specific supportive words we can offer, based on what ailment may be troubling you today.
No, we can't do your taxes for you. But here in hot yoga, you are not defined by your To Do List or any other conditions; and you are about to learn just that.
Eyes open. Heart open. Start over.
Rhonda Uretzky, E-RYT
Reader Comments (1)
It's interesting; once you see that you CAN do hot yoga despite what you may think about your age, your inflexibility, or your ailments, you start questioning and exploring what else you can do that you may have thought yourself incapable of before. Hot yoga does have a way of affecting your life outside the studio...for the better. Has anyone had that experience?