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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