Sweatin’ Buckets with Bikram

Part 3: Types & Styles of Yoga

The great thing about yoga is that there are about as many different styles as there are human personalities.  Now I can’t really knock any particular style, especially one I haven’t done in the traditional sense (I have done Hot Yoga a few times and I still don’t get it).

Bikram is one of those styles that—from all I’ve read and heard—I don’t really want to do. Yes, it’s done in a hot room and I mean 2pm-in-the middle-of-a-Central-Florida-July hot. I mean, why would I want to do exercise in a hot room on purpose?

Yes, there’s all that stuff about warm muscles being less likely to get pulled and the fact that you can get deeper into difficult stretches when your muscles are warm and toasty which really makes you feel amazing.

Yes, there’s the fact that you can burn a serious amount of calories (like 900 in 90 minutes!) and that all that sweating really does detoxify your whole body.

And yeah, there’s that wonderful Nestea Plunge feeling you get when you walk out of a Bikram or hot yoga class and into a 78° room and feel every one of your senses come alive.

But besides all that.

Well, maybe I will try it.

Once.

Here’s a link for you.  You decide: http://youtu.be/wEzznV7LlyA