"Which hot yoga poses can I practice at home?"

I love enthusiastic Riverflow hot yoga students who ask me, "Which hot yoga poses can I do at home?"

The answer: all of them - as long as you never move a muscle.

Once you have a steady, 3-times-a week hot yoga practice, you can improve all 26 of your hot yoga poses by rehearsing them in your mind.

That's right - sit back and be lazy. (Repeat after me: Lazy is good; lazy is good; lazy is gooooooood!)

Only it's not so lazy; it takes commitment, focus, and giving up the guilt about "doing nothing." Get ready for your Hot Yoga Mental Rehearsal.

Mental rehearsal isn't a New-Age, touchy/feely thing; it's science. Countless experiments like the one above, usually done with athletes, prove that the results can be exactly the same when you exercise your mind. 

Can you pretend your hot yoga practice into perfection?

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Hot Yoga and the Law of Attraction

Are you living the same life, different day?

How can something so consistently the same - hot yoga - be so disarming, while something so unpredictable - your life -  bring you the same things over and over?

How do you get more of what you do want and change what's unwanted, once and for all?

Here's the secret answer you wont hear from your teachers, parents, friends or therapists:

Do nothing. Take no action at all. Stop thinking about it. Stop talking about it. Look away from the problem.

And how is that supposed to work, you ask? In a word: beautifully. And here's why:

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You're good at hot yoga? Too bad.

At Riverflow, we love it when you're bad at hot yoga.

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

I don't know who wrote this poem but isn't it a relief to hear that you don't have to be good? It really speaks to the child in me who still remembers how GOOD it felt to write on the walls with crayons and flush toy trucks down the toilet (I had a very lively childhood).

Aren't you tired of trying to be good at hot yoga?

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