Posts in June 21, 2013

2025 Update: I wrote this post in 2013, and now haven’t prac­ticed hot yoga in years. I’m back to swim­ming as my pri­ma­ry mode of exer­cise, with some restora­tive yoga, strength train­ing, and cycling mixed in. But I think the points below still stand, and many of them are cer­tain­ly trans­ferrable to oth­er dis­ci­plined forms of exercise. I start­ed prac­tic­ing hot yoga about a year and a half ago. The stu­dio I attend is devot­ed to Bikram Yoga, a form of Hatha yoga that con­sists of a pre­scribed series of 26 pos­tures and two breath­ing exer­cis­es done in a 105°F […]