I'm sooo excited....I found a local studio who has the class late enough in the evening that I can make it!! So... I'm going tonight (UNLESS... my little friend shows up ) I have a coupon for the first class FREE and then single classes after that are $15 or you can buy like months or years packages...but I'm not gonna go that route until I've tried it a few times...besides, I would only be doing it on Fridays for now. Here is a cool discription of it....

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Hot Yoga is an exciting, challenging and effective yoga class composed of breathing exercises and Hatha yoga postures performed in a hot room. This practice is designed to work every muscle, joint, ligament, tendon, gland and organ in the body, and the heat facilitates this process.

Hot Yoga balances the body and its major systems (respiratory, circulatory, muscular, digestive, elimination, nervous, and endocrine), rejuvenating and restoring overall health. The heat creates a safe environment for stretching the body and promotes the detoxifying process.

People of any age and condition can do this yoga. Some acutely ill have been cured of chronic disease (including diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, chronic back pain, etc.) as a result of practicing this form of yoga.

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Bikram yoga is an incredible workout that not only works your body, but your mind and your soul. Bikram yoga is a form of hatha yoga designed by Bikram Choudhury. It 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 is practiced in a heated room, usually up to 105 degrees Fahrenheit. The heated room allows your muscles to warm up quickly and stretch safely. So, even if you don't think you're very flexible, you'll be amazed how quickly your body will become more flexible and stronger with the heat and the postures. Your progress in Bikram yoga "will depend entirely on you -- upon your natural ability to a small extent, but mostly upon the honest time and effort you give to Yoga. It will have little to do with how 'perfectly' you can do the poses. (Few of us ever do the poses 'perfectly.') Instead, it will have to do with how well you understand what you are trying to accomplish in each pose, how honestly you try to accomplish your goal, and how supple your muscles and joints have become in comparison to the point at which you began. In Yoga there is no standard of comparison except yourself. Perfect is the best you can do that day."

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With my Fibro, I LOVE tropical heat as it's the only time I feel really warm "in my bones" (yah, I'm weird ). But I have never heard of anywhere round here doing it. I'll keep my eyes out tho!

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Yes, it made me nauseous and I felt a bit faint. But I don't like extreme heat.

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