Bikram not only works on your flexibility, but strength. I think it’s important to try it at least three times to see if it’s right for you. Personally, it has changed my life and at first, I was completely opposed to it! It took me 6 classes to make it through the whole class without leaving the class to take a break. It’s practiced in 105 degree heat with 30-40% humidity. Bikram is 26 postures that you practice twice each in 90-minutes. There are tons of yoga types you can practice in heat and Bikram is one of them. Hot yoga, in my opinion, varies in the type of classes. It’s important to make the distinction between hot yoga and Bikram yoga. Hi Anne! As someone who just completed a 60-day Bikram yoga challenge (60 class in 60 days!) I had to comment. Speaking of - time to pack a quick lunch and then I’m off to give a group presentation in my Medical Nutrition Therapy class, eek! Wish us luck! I was feeling motivated last night, apparently! Most likely because working on the blog = not working on school work □ I updated my running training page with my current PR’s (personal records) - yay!.I FINALLY updated my health tips & favorite posts page ! Go check it out □.By popular demand, I have added a “favorites” category to my recipe page ! Boy was it hard to choose □ Go see if you’ve tried my favorites and please let me know what yours are, too! Did I miss any really good ones?.Have you tried hot yoga? If so, did you like it? Should I give it another chance? How do you like it compared to regular yoga? The added heat with hot yoga makes it even more challenging to relax, embrace the moment, and not panic or mentally give up on the experience. I think I need to view hot yoga as a challenge to remind myself to quiet my mind and embrace the experience a big part of yoga, I’ve learned, is not just physical, but mental. Hot yoga is also a lot slower than the power yoga I’m used to, which gave me time to let thoughts of “this is a waste of time” and “this is weird” creep back into my mind like they used to when I first started yoga. I didn’t feel as stretched out as I normally do (I missed the flow and runner’s type stretches like triangle pose, lunge, etc.), and I had a harder time calming my mind, likely due to the 90 minute length. While I enjoyed the workout, I didn’t like it nearly as much as I do power yoga. But I did know that I would need a towel to put over my mat and a huge container of water - there would be a LOT of sweating happening!ĩ0 minutes later, we emerged looking like we had gone swimming. I’ve done hot yoga a couple times before, but not in a reeeeeally long time. I finally got around to going to a hot yoga class over the weekend with my friend Lauren. You will be VERY sweaty - the goal is to help the body flush out toxins in the form of sweat. The movements are much slower than power yoga and you hold the poses for longer. The room is heated to warm and lengthen your muscles, preventing injuries and allowing for a deeper release and stretch. If you’ve never done hot yoga before, it’s basically a series of specific yoga poses done in a room heated to about 100 degrees. (Rocking my “Vegetarian… except for bacon” shirt, heh!)īut while I absolutely love vinyasa-style flow yoga and power yoga (SO great for running cross-training), and have even learned to crave it when I haven’t done it for a few days, the jury is still out for me and hot yoga.Ī couple months ago, I bought a Living Social deal for 10 hot yoga classes for $20. I finally “got” yoga, and I even wrote a blog post about how I went from hating yoga to loving it. But a couple years ago, that all changed. Lately I’ve been really into power yoga, but if you’ve been reading my blog for awhile, you know that I didn’t always enjoy yoga. I have a debate for you all today - regular yoga or hot yoga?
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