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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Angry Hot Yoga!

Isn't yoga supposed to make you feel calm and serene?

Not if you've got some surpressed anger. Hot yoga is sure to bring up whatever you've been keeping down. And that's a good thing: because when those emotions are finally ready to come up, they're ready to be done.

Hot yoga is a science of letting go: a set sequence of 26 poses done in a very heated room with specific instructions offered to keep you safe in the heat, to occupy your mind so it doesn't wander, to take you

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Can hot yoga help back pain?

Is your back a pain in the neck?

Have tried all the remedies, only to have your back pain return?

Consider addressing the physical, general and emotional causes of your back pain.

Most people don't address all three areas and thatis what keeps so many lost in the Back Pain Triangle.

Over 80% of adults suffer from back pain at some stage. Almost 90% will suffer from recurring bouts of back pain. Eventually these same people will have their older years in chronic back pain misery.

It sounds frightening but rest assured: your back pain is easily solved, with the Back Support Pyramid.

It is not a product, a system or package. The Back Support Pyramid is

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Halloween Candy Blues, Hot Yoga Style

Is hot yoga scary?  Not compared to The Sugar Monster.

Halloween is Monster time and I dont mean zombies and slashers; I mean SUGAR. Chocolate and Twinkies and Twix...oh crap.  

Because holiday diet sabotage starts with the call of the Candy Monster on October 31.

Then comes pre-Thanksgiving, when you've got a big plate of busy to deal with -  shopping, cooking, entertaining, visiting - and that's when the Monster eats you.

You're hungry; you need to eat SOMETHING RIGHT NOW. What's easier than a cookie...or 10?

And sure, you say those miniature Milky Way bars are for the trick-or-treaters....but then, why are you keeping them in the freezer?

There's nothing worse than suffering a sickening defeat at the claws of the Sugar Monster. But -

Defeat The Sugar Monster in 3 Easy Steps:

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Namaste, Dammit!

You're angry. You're depressed. You're overwhelmed. You're snarky.

What to do when you don't WANT to do hot yoga?

You know all the reasons you should do hot yoga...your bad back will straighten, your hurt knees will feel healed, your arthritis will ease, your rotten mood will soften...but right this minute, you don't FEEL like doing yoga, dammit. And class starts in 5 minutes.

You're not alone. A glut of hot yoga students show up 5 minutes before class begins - or 2 minutes after we lock the door to the yoga room - so we always know the days you had to drag yourself to hot yoga class.

We don't blame you; we welcome you. In fact, we have a lot of respect for you when you gag the Demon and show up anyway.

You've got your reasons...damn good ones. You're working overtime. You have a long commute right behind the old man who drives with his reading glasses. Your kids needed a ride to soccer practice and you thought today was Wednesday.

Hey, we've been there. We still are - yoga teachers are people, too.

So as a yogi and yoga teacher for the past 30-40 years, here's my advice on how to do yoga when you don't want to

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