Vinyasa and Moksha and Bikram, Oh My! Or: How to stop worrying and enjoy hot yoga.

Is Riverflow Yoga the same path as Vinyasa Flow, Moksha or Bikram Yoga?

Nope, nope, and not quite.

What to do about the many forms of hot yoga? Dig in. Do you limit yourself to just one spice? If you enjoy garlic, are you forever banned from allspice?  Maybe not in the same recipe, but there's a delicious place for both, whenever you want. 

Do you have to swear loyalty to one hot yoga style or teacher?

Each hot yoga class, I say, "This was the best." Next class, I say it again. That's because I use hot yoga as my object of appreciation in that moment; my reason to feel good right now and my momentum for feeling better. I don't sweat it, and that's my wish for you: to savor your hot yoga and let it warm you from inside.

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Hot Yoga For Dummies

Having a great hot yoga class isn’t about how smart you are; it’s about how dumb you are willing to let yourself be.

The three most dangerous words in the English language, and the ones that will sabotage your every hot yoga class, are:

“I know that.”

The most successful people throughout history and right now in our hot yoga room, are those who know that they don’t know. And are ready to learn something new.

How teachable are you?

What is your Teachability Index?

Never mind your IQ; you need a high Teachability Index. This is the measure of how open you are to learn in any given situation.

When your Teachability Index is low, your learning valve is stuck.

The good news is that it isn’t stuck forever; your Teachability Index fluctuates all the time. And you control it.

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Yoga in a Sardine Can?

Is this hot yoga or is it torture?

On the first day of summer, out in the middle ot Times Square, hundreds of people gathered to do Hot Yoga out on the street. Not hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk, it WAS hot enough to work up a sweat and get all the benefits of hot yoga in an outdoor flash mob.

But Times Square's got nothing on us.

With the advent of summer - longer days, more light and heat later in the day, temperatures soaring into the 100s already - our little Riverflow hot yoga studio has been filled to the brim with hot-to-trot students of all kinds - beginners, advanced, enthusiastic, skeptical. And we welcome everyone.

But is it OK to do hot yoga in a crowded room?

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