Retracing the Roots of a Hot Yoga Reaction

Retracements are temporary symptoms that occur during a deep healing regimen, like say, for instance, hot yoga.

Are you familiar with the healing phenomenon known as Retracement?  It means that during a deep healing, your body may literally choose to retrace/ go back/ relive those old infections, wounds, injuries, or other imbalances from the past, in order to clear them out fully this time around. 

Retracing can be about eliminating toxic substances, healing chronic infections, or clearing out old emotional wounds. It results in a metabolic increase in vitality.

But you know what they say: the truth shall set you free, but first it shall piss you off. And hot yoga can piss you off big-time. Here's why:

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How Hot Yoga Stands Up to Dr. Mercola's 3 Fitness Pillars

If you're a fan of Dr. Joe Mercola, the original alternative medicine doctor who has always been ahead of the curve on everything healthy, you'll love what he has to say now:

Dr. Mercola's 3 Fitness Pillars are an almost perfect description of what we do in Hot 26 Yoga.

It's no surprise to me. Yoga is 5000 years old. Back then, yogis didn't need doctors or scientists to confirm what they knew: yoga is healing.

About 40 years ago, when the hot 26 yoga series was developed as a healing to acute injury, those yogis knew the deeper secret: that hot yoga was a complete healing: physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Yoga acknowledges the interrelationship of all aspects of a person, unlike western medicine where the focus is primarily on the physical body (allopathic medicine only relatively recently even acknowledged that emotional stress impacts physical health, and only after testing proved what yogis always knew: the emotional and the physical are not separable).

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How was your hot yoga class today?

Everyone has a day they love to remember in hot yoga...and a hot yoga class or two we'd like to forget.

Here is one of my favorite posts, from our own Jill Studnicki. Read, laugh, and come to hot yoga!

My attitude at hot yoga stunk today.  I was worried about job stuff, rushed to get to class because the line to buy Q-tips was too long, and it was an afternoon hot yoga class so my body was already tired. 

I struggled.  I sat out a couple of (okay, a few) poses.  My head wasn't in the game.  It was basically a 90-minute pity party.  Usually I'm pretty good about letting things go once I step into the room, but today I was a mess. 

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What a hot waste of time...

My most enjoyable way to start each day is with little waste of time .

Any given morning, I can be found loading the dishwasher, folding the towels, shining up the stainless steel refrigerator doors (I did that this morning).

The efficiency experts tell me I am wasting time.

I need a To Do List. I am putting the small things before the big important ones. I am losing ground, losing the race, getting sidetracked by being unfocused.

Something inside me knows differently.

I sometimes fall into berating myself for “frittering away” my time doing these seemingly trivial tasks. Then I get it: feeling good is not trivial.

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Should Governor Christie Do Hot Yoga?

I invited NJ Governor Chris Christie to a NJ hot yoga class at our studio.

I originally got the idea last October, after Governor Christie declined the 2012 GOP candidacy and the fat jokes got thick.  

Comedian David Letterman said Christie couldn’t run for President because, “there isn’t a Quizznos within five miles of the White House."  Michael Kinsley of Bloomberg said, “Since the president inevitably sets an example, and obesity is a national epidemic, a skinny person should run the country.” News commentator Neil Cavuto called it ”racism with a scale."

Should weight impact your credibiity?

There is a definite weight prejudice in America and it equates overweight with under-qualified. Governor Christie is the ideal candidate to end that.

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