Anna L

Hi everybody!

What an interesting thread… hot yoga really can and will affect your body and psyche in numerous ways. When I first started my regular practise (about five times/w) I experienced night sweats, almost always in direct correlation to yoga the evening before. After about a month they subsided, and were completely gone after three months. During these three first months of bikram yoga I also had days of crazy appetite, days of no appetite, cravings for some specific foods while couldn’t stand other tastes that I used to love (coffee for example!), I also experienced break-outs worse than ever before (which cleared away within a few days when I started the yogabody supplements by the way- but that is a different thread!)

My take on this- with no medical knowledge whatsoever, is that a regular hot yoga practise really is quite “invasive”, I believe that going from a “normal” exercise routine, i.e. aerobics twice a week, to hot yoga many days in a row simply takes some getting used to.

Eight months now with a steady practise and I can’t imagine ever going back to any other kind of exercise (other than to maybe complement my yoga practise) and I feel healthier and stronger than ever, and am starting to research teacher training alternatives.

wow, I was only supposed to comment on the sweat thing… 🙂 what I wanted to say is that I am 24 yrs old so sweating doesn’t have to have anything to do with menopause, and that for me, it got better quite fast. It might be true what my most dedicated teacher likes to recommend as a remedy for basically anything (she winks while she says this!) “try MORE yoga!” 😉

Namaste everybody

When I first started Bikram yoga I had some breakouts right in the beginning, the first few months. I am not sure if this is the reason, but I believe it might have to do with some kind of detoxing process in the beginning, or maybe it is the skin that has to get used to sweating that much? …I kept on going and now my skin is better than ever!