"I suggest you write about something really important..."

An article in The Wall Street Journal on the health benefits of deep breathing was not surprising news to yogis who have advocated this for 1000 years

What shocked me were the responses.

The article begins simply enough:

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What can you change about yourself in 30 days?

Hmmmm...what would be truly life changing?

Climbing Mount Everest?  Too cold.

Sailing around the world in a schooner? I'm seasick already.

Biking across the globe? Who can take that time off from work - and then time for recovery?

How about something that will change your life in a month?

Hot yoga for 30 days...what's in it for you?

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Nothing doing!

A  recent study at the University of Virginia showed that most people would rather administer an electric shock to themselves than spend a mere 15 minutes with nothing to do.

What's so horrifying about doing nothing?

Psychologist Tim Wilson of the University of Virginia and his team of researchers asked college students to sit for 15 minutes in a plain room just thinking. He asked them to record how well they concentrated and how much they enjoyed the experience. Most  admitted that they couldn't concentrate; more than half hated it.

No wonder. Most people do with nothing better to do will spin some amazingly awful thoughts, mostly about themselves.

But these students even hated thinking positive; they just didn't like being alone with their own thoughts.

Were these ADD teens with Twitter-fingers? Not at all. The researchers also conducted texperiment with a middle-aged church group. The results? The same.

No one seemed to enjoy their thoughtful moments.

Now comes the shocking news: just how far will people go to avoid doing nothing?

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Sweat so Good!

You do it for that delicious mix of warrior accomplishment and complete calm; it's what keeps you coming back to hot yoga. 

Yet you may be blissfully unware of the amazing cellular health you're getting not just from the asanas, but from the sweating you do in hot yoga.

Get ready to get blown away when you hear how deeply and completely healing your regular hot yoga practice is, for every cell in your body.

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How to relax about being tight

“I can’t  do yoga – I’m not flexible!”

I hear this complaint a lot from would-be hot yoga students. I try to explain that hot yoga is the antidote to inflexibiity. In fact, the tighter you are the more quickly you may notice the before-and-after of your hot yoga body.

But hot yoga is more than skin deep. 

While you're busy twisting and turning and stretching, yoga is expanding you on many other levels, loosening your mind, for example

Is there such a thing as too tight to do hot yoga? 

If you believe you’re inflexible,  you are likely to think so. Becuase a tight mind is even more painful. So loosen up your old ideas about yourself and come in closer...

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