Last Friday I went to hot yoga at Corepower Yoga for the first time. Many of my friends, including Marisa, had reccomended it and said it was a great experience. So I was like Why not?! It was great. I went with my friends Anna and Maria. We went to the level one class because it was our first class, and that just means that it's a little toasty in there but not scorching hot. I'm pretty sure the hottest it got was 85 degrees so it wasn't that bad. It was soooo fun though! I've been to yoga several times before at a different place, but I really liked how it was a little more fast paced and rythemic than the other classes I've been to. By rythemic I mean that we did the same moves over and over and over, which I liked because by the 5th set of moves I had it pretty down pat and didn't really have to think about it much. It was also just soothing. At the end we did this thing with some name in another language that I don't remember, but we laid down on our mats with lemon- lavender scented cold wash clothes over our eyes, the music was dialed down to a barely audible sound, and the lights were dimmed. We just laid there and breathed for awhile. It was so nice. The instructor told us to not think about anything; to just clear our minds. I think I succeeded in doing that, because I have no idea how much time past when the gong was rung. So I was either in a deep meditational trance, or I fell asleep. Same difference.
We walked out of the class in a daze, feeling peaceful and one with the earth, until I got home and realized how much homework I had to do over the weekend. Just like that, the stress magically reappeared. But: whether you are looking for a temporary relief from the stress in your life, you are like me and have nothing to do on a Friday night except hang out with your cats, or you just enjoy being in a warm room surrounded by sweaty people, than this is definitely the class for you. I highly recommend it to everyone.
We walked out of the class in a daze, feeling peaceful and one with the earth, until I got home and realized how much homework I had to do over the weekend. Just like that, the stress magically reappeared. But: whether you are looking for a temporary relief from the stress in your life, you are like me and have nothing to do on a Friday night except hang out with your cats, or you just enjoy being in a warm room surrounded by sweaty people, than this is definitely the class for you. I highly recommend it to everyone.