Comments on: Sweating And Yoga http://10000vinyasas.com/yoga/sweating-and-yoga/ Living Outside Industrial Civilization: Finding Inner Peace Through Gastronomic Adventures, and Yoga Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:17:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: carl http://10000vinyasas.com/yoga/sweating-and-yoga/comment-page-1/#comment-887 carl Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:23:53 +0000 http://10000vinyasas.com/?p=298#comment-887 I have to agree, after teaching yoga for awhile, that men do tend to sweat more. My whining about sweating reflects the fact that I sweat more than most or all men, as well as women. When I took Ken's primary series class in the summertime, he would just open up the garage door in the practice room and let all that warm, humid air come in. Talk about suffering through...I got in the habit of turning on the fans, and that helped some. Apparently now, turning on the fans is verboten in that space. Oh well... I have to agree, after teaching yoga for awhile, that men do tend to sweat more. My whining about sweating reflects the fact that I sweat more than most or all men, as well as women. When I took Ken’s primary series class in the summertime, he would just open up the garage door in the practice room and let all that warm, humid air come in. Talk about suffering through…I got in the habit of turning on the fans, and that helped some. Apparently now, turning on the fans is verboten in that space. Oh well…

]]> By: Becky http://10000vinyasas.com/yoga/sweating-and-yoga/comment-page-1/#comment-882 Becky Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:38:30 +0000 http://10000vinyasas.com/?p=298#comment-882 I'm skeptical and curious about the benefits of yoga in a heated room, especially the toxins part. I did hot vinyasa twice a week at Synergy before I discovered Yoga Shala, and I noticed a few things: 1. I sweat less after practicing consistently for a while. 2. Men seem to sweat way more than women. 3. It feels good to get sweaty and not act gross about it. The teachers there don't act like sweat is gross and will even touch your feet at the end of class. 4. My flexibility did improve a lot, but that could just be from a consistent practice. (It's improved way more since I started going to Yoga Shala/teacher training, but again consistent practice tends to do that, so it's hard to tell if the heat helped or not.) 5. Being outside in the Texas heat started to feel like no big deal. "What are you guys whining about, we're just walking around outside, it's not like we're holding challenging poses with vinyasas in between." I also think that when it's hot outside, it's really wasteful and strange to practice yoga in a heated room of an air conditioned building. One rationale behind the heated room is to simulate the heat of India. During summer in Texas there is no simulation necessary, and outside is so much better. I’m skeptical and curious about the benefits of yoga in a heated room, especially the toxins part.

I did hot vinyasa twice a week at Synergy before I discovered Yoga Shala, and I noticed a few things:

1. I sweat less after practicing consistently for a while.

2. Men seem to sweat way more than women.

3. It feels good to get sweaty and not act gross about it. The teachers there don’t act like sweat is gross and will even touch your feet at the end of class.

4. My flexibility did improve a lot, but that could just be from a consistent practice. (It’s improved way more since I started going to Yoga Shala/teacher training, but again consistent practice tends to do that, so it’s hard to tell if the heat helped or not.)

5. Being outside in the Texas heat started to feel like no big deal. “What are you guys whining about, we’re just walking around outside, it’s not like we’re holding challenging poses with vinyasas in between.”

I also think that when it’s hot outside, it’s really wasteful and strange to practice yoga in a heated room of an air conditioned building. One rationale behind the heated room is to simulate the heat of India. During summer in Texas there is no simulation necessary, and outside is so much better.

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