Entries in Bikram hot yoga (2)

Tuesday
Dec312013

A funny thing happened in Hot Yoga class....

"Pranayama began. I was compressing my belly exhaling, taking big balloon belly breaths. I imagined absorbing energy into my organs with each breath. In my mind, I was doing a great thing, really helping my body heal itself. 

Then... I felt like vomiting

I was dizzy, nauseous, worried about how I would exit the full class without stepping on someone to get to the ladies room to throw up..."

You come to hot yoga to get toned, lose weight, loosen up, stretch out, relax, de-stress, but...

One day you fall apart.

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Thursday
Feb142013

Will the real Hot Yoga please stand up?

Hot yoga is challenging old ideas about yoga.

And you can't spell Challenge without Change.

Back in 1971 when I started doing yoga, people thought I was weird. Few people had heard of yoga and even fewer had ever practiced it. I got turned onto yoga when I heard a Zen Buddhist monk speak at a NY college. He spoke no English; his wife was translating his words. I don't recall what yoga he spoke about, but it was his demeanor that impressed me; he was at once shy and retiring, but exuded a strength and inner power that reached me in the back row of a huge college auditorium.

From there I found my own yoga access on an obscure cable TV station, mornings at 6AM, evenings at 11.

Fast forward 40 years, and yoga is a lot more flexible.

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