10 Ways to Know You're A Hot Yoga Teacher

The saying, "If you want to master something - teach it," has been true for me and hot yoga.

Back when I was 19, I started teaching yoga because it was fun; I wanted to share my love of yoga with my friends. Now, some 35+ later, I can tell you teaching yoga has taken me on the most surprising journey into own life - and farther than I ever imagined.

How do you know if you'd be a good hot yoga teacher?

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The yoga of Herb and Dorothy

Have you ever seen a movie so good you had to see it again - the next night?

So it was with Herb and Dorothy: 50x50, which I watched again Sunday night at the little ACME Theatre in Lambertville.

And I found myself in tears, again.

Herb and Dorothy Vogel could not have seemed more ordinary: she was a librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library and he was a postal worker. They worked at their day jobs for 30+ years.

Outside they were ordinary people but inside, they had an amazing secret...

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Can you trust hot yoga?

Yoga is at least 5000 years old. It ain’t new, even though it’s all over the news.

Lately, the news about yoga is all bad. Yoga can wreck your body. Meditation can throw you into a psychotic episode and eventually get you thrown into a home for the meditatively insane.

The latest word on trusting yoga: DON'T.

After all, you're no expert; how do you know if your yoga teacher is going to fast forward you to enlightenment or send you to the emergency room in a speeding ambulance?

When it comes to your hot yoga practice, just who do you trust to take you out of your comfort zone?

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Relax, it's Hot Yoga time.

Next hot yoga class at Riverflow Yoga or anywhere else, consider that you are creating your future.

Quite literally, your focused thoughts become etched into your brain, and finally, written out on the pages of your life story. And never are your thoughts more focused and more relaxed than when you are doing hot yoga.

Hot yoga...relaxing? YES!

Why? Because in hot yoga, your teacher does the thinking. You get a break from the incessant mind chatter during hot yoga, where all you have to do is

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