The session involves a total of 26 postures, or asanas. These are done in a specific order and repeated again. The poses are each held for roughly 10 to 60 seconds. The session lasts for 90 minutes. The first twelve poses are standing poses. The others are all done lying on the floor and sitting.



Believe it or not hot yoga is a type of exercise people are practicing on such a high scale that it is becoming a craze. Hot yoga is a combination of different poses carried out in a special heated room of which the temperature is normally between 95-100 degrees.

I had never heard of this type of yoga before, so did a bit of a search and found that there was a studio nearby. Bikram Yoga is practised in a room heated to approximately 38 degrees C, goes for 90 minutes, with 26 poses which are practised in a certain sequence. Each pose is held for 20-30 seconds, is done twice and prepares your body for the next. During the class you will work every muscle pilates memphis and every system of your body. You will feel like you've had a great workout. I found that the heat was very healing and alleviated my knee pain both whilst in class and after.

1) The Edmonton Yoga Loft - Provides a beginner with an exceptional experience into Yoga and has a very warm comforting setting for everyone. The instructors are some of the best people you will have ever met and so dedicated to teaching you the art of Yoga. For more the experienced people, they really go the extra mile for you in wisdom and instruction. Everyone who visits will walk away with an invigorating experience.

There are many places where you can find hot yoga information and learn how to stretch and move your body in a way that will bring you all of the benefits of relaxation and a reduction of stress. Stress is connected to many of the aches and pains that we deal with in our daily life. When the body is tense and stressed it is in an unhealthy state. Yoga helps to loosen the body, stretch the muscles and release that stress so that you are more relaxed when you finish a session of Yoga than you were when you began.

Many hot yoga practitioners feel that it is not enough to practice yoga at home and crave the community feeling of being in one place with all the other yoga enthusiasts. However, with this need to be in a social circle come other concerns. There are certainly many accessories that a yoga practitioner needs and these accessories usually require a big and roomy bag to carry them in. Sure, there are plenty of yoga bags in the market today, but how many of them look just like your regular office bag and how many actually provide the features needed by a true yoga practitioner?

I did some research when I first began going to class. I wanted to know what I was getting into. The dogma of yoga as a spiritual practice didn't really speak to me, but the info I read on hot yoga made me very curious. I learned that one hot yoga class gives me the same quantity of calorie consumption that I would get on a run. That's something I can live with.