12 Things I Learned from Sweaty Naked People

In my hot yoga NJ studio and thousands of others across the country, people of all sizes, shapes and smells stand mat to mat testing the limits of our skimpiest clothing, nonchalantly sweating like racehorses while we focus intently in the mirrors, shutting out all distractions including the hot yogis around us (translate "hot" any way you want).

This is not easy, especially in forward bends. (Best line ever after hot yoga class: "My head was so far up that girl's butt, I feel I should take her to dinner.")

During my hot yoga teaching these 13+ years, I have touched many, many sweat-drenched students, bringing students deeper into a pose. By holding on, I have learned a lot about letting go...

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We ARE Family! Sister Sledge does Hot Yoga

Everyone is a celebrity in hot yoga. And you inspire everyone around you just by showing up.

Right now, we have THREE people on a 30 Day Hot Yoga Challenge

I must confess I have a special admiration for anyone who does the 30 Day Hot Yoga Challenge, but this group of women is amazing: Carly is on her second 30 Day Hot Yoga Challenge; Stephanie has done multiple double-classes (two hot yoga classes in one day); and Jane jumped into a 30 Day Challenge after just 3 hot yoga classes. You hot yoga women ROCK!

And speaking of Rock, Riverflow hot yoga student Kathy Lightfoot is actually Kathy Sledge, lead singer of the R&B group Sister Sledge ("We Are Family"). In May, Oprah Magazine voted Kathy one of the top Ageless Women in America! Meet Kathy in hot yoga class, you'll know why: she is gorgeous, inside and out.

Kathy just started hot yoga this month but she is already hooked, using hot yoga to heal a bum knee and stay young and gorgeous. Way to go, Kathy!

Here's her story, from Oprah Magazine:

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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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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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