Bikram Yoga

So Saturday morning, before we all got sick, D's mom had the kids so I tried out this new yoga place that only offers Bikram Yoga, aka Hot Yoga. Bikram Yoga is "a twenty-six asana series designed to scientifically warm and stretch muscles, ligaments and tendons, in the order in which they should be stretched. Bikram Yoga's twenty-six posture exercises systematically move fresh, oxygenated blood to one hundred percent of your body, to each organ and fiber, restoring all systems to healthy working order, just as Nature intended. Proper weight, muscle tone, vibrant good health, and a sense of well-being will automatically follow."

So the class is 90 minutes long and like they said it is 26 poses which are preformed twice in a 105 degree room. I must say the the room was hot. I am a cold weather, fan in my face, fresh air kind of work out girl and this was nothing like that. The room kind of smelled like hot recycled sweaty air and as soon as I got in there I was sweating. After the first couple of moves my entire body was dripping with sweat like a pop container from a fast food restaurant "sweats". It bubbles and then the water runs down the cup. That is what my entire body was like. I looked around and there were others like me but most of the other people were not as bad. I have always been a big sweater but this was the kind of sweat that generates after being in a spinning room for 90 minutes. Anyway, I had to sit down several times because I felt like I was going to pass out. They warned us all about feeling this way and just said to sit down and relax. I had took two full sized towels with me and they were very wet, not damp but wet. So the moves were all right, it was a lot of standing poses and balancing poses but we did not do any flows or vinyeses. It was not really physically hard, like a challenging cardio workout, it was just kind of hard to tell since I sweated so much and I felt like I was going to pass out. I do know that my muscles were really stretched out and I felt pretty good afterward, despite still having a stomach ache. So I should probably try it again since I now know that I was just beginning to get the stomach virus and that could have something to do with my nauseated feeling and not liking how the room smelled or it really could have made me feel that way. So it was a great stretch, I don't really think they need to have the room be at 105 degree to get the same affect but I am not an expect so maybe it is more affective.

I am glad that I tried it. I will probably try it again and stand by the door this time since that was a cooler spot, I was right by the heater.


Things I am grateful/thankful for:
-Nathan not having another ear infection
-sleeping in my comfortable bed
-watching Julianne interact with her friends at Daisy Scout meeting