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I’m 28 years old and started yoga about 2 1/2 weeks ago. Over the past week, I’ve been getting random hot flashes. My students at school have told me that my face gets red randomly. It’s not that I’m blushing, it’s my entire face. Is this normal? Is there anything I can do to help make it go away?
Hello Jeni,
Welcome to the Forum and Hot Yoga 🙂
I hope you have been having a positive experience at your classes apart from the hot flashes.
What you are going through is quite common amongst Hot Yoga newbies. Before any statements or suggestions are made, could you please answer the following questions:
– How much water do you drink a day? How much do you increase that amount with, on days when you practise?
– Do you replenish your electrolytes? If yes, what do you take?
– Do you sweat excessively after class or maybe even during the night?Have a look around on this Forum, I think you’ll find some really useful information about yoga and even hot flashes. To start with you could search for the word: ‘electrolyte’.
Also, in the meantime if you aren’t taking any electrolyte supplements, see if you can buy some good quality Himalayan rock or unrefined sea salt in your local store and start adding a pinch of that to your ‘yoga-water’ and food.
Ok, that’s enough for a start 🙂
I am looking forward to hearing from you!Namaste,
Andrea
Hi Andrea!
I drink about 100oz of water a day. That’s on the recommendation from one of my teachers to drink half my body weight in oz every day. Before doing yoga, I definitely did not drink enough water. When I can I try to drink Smart Water. I try to replenish electrolytes after class by drinking a smoothie with coconut and/or banana in it. Today I got some Emergen-C, and am actually drinking it now. Hopefully it’ll help me tonight in class. As for sweating, yeah I’d say I sweat pretty excessively during class.
Hope this helps!
Hi Jeni,
It’s good to hear that you are conscious about drinking plenty of water. Do you increase that amount on days when you practise or is that how much you drink regardless?
Did you have a chance to have a look at information about electrolytes on this the forum or elsewhere?
If you do a bit of research I think you’ll find, that one of the symptoms of electrolyte deficiency can be hot flashes.
Drinking coconut water after hot yoga classes has become very popular. Although potassium is very important for optimal health, a certain level of salt in your system has to be present also. Very simply put: the more potassium you have, the more it’s going to push the electrolytes out of your body. Though it sounds like to me that what you really need right now is more electrolytes, aka salt. Potassium can be found in almost many things we eat. IMHO one only has to focus on extra potassium intake in unusual cases. Good quality crystal salt on the other hand is rare to find in our everyday food.
I think it’s important for you to look at information about electrolytes and get some good quality Himalayan crystal/Celtic/unrefined sea salt – if you haven’t yet done that so.
I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Namaste,
Andrea
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