Hot Yoga

by Leslie Aronson — May 3, 2008

Yoga has a variety of beneficial properties, including increasing your flexibility, improving your circulation and digestion, helping you lose weight, and generally improving your overall state of being. Bikram yoga is a type of yoga developed by Bikram Choudhury that claims to make you sweat, detoxify, tone, stretch, and strengthen. You are absolutely guaranteed to sweat because the room is heated to 105ºF, which is one of the aspects that sets this yoga apart from its brethren. Heating the room obviously heats up your body, which aids in the detoxification process and makes your body more limber than a regular room-temperature room. And, as best put by www.bikramyoga.com, "Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class is a 26 asana series designed to scientifically warm and stretch muscles, ligaments and tendons, in the order in which they should be stretched. Bikram Yoga's 26 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." Check and see if there are any Bikram classes offered in your area - if nothing else, it's a great way to change up your yoga routine with a little extra heat.