It's hard to imagine that you'll feel good going into some of Yoga poses! But I tell and I promise you that as the blogs grow with info on Hot Yoga and Hatha Yoga in particular, you will begin to hunger to find out for yourself what it's all about!
Do you feel tired and in need of energy sometime throughout the day? Try deep breathing to bring your vitality back. This can be accomplished anywhere and anytime throughout your day!
With the heat up in Hot Yoga and the deep breathing exercise beginning your energy increases two fold; three fold! It's amazing to feel this! Drinking in the warmth, the oxygen moving to all the corners of your body; increasing the capacity and elasticity of your lungs!
Don't be concerned with the heat, our body temperature is at 98.6 so in order to feel the relaxing of the muscles you need to increase the heat above the body temperature. In this way, your muscles will automatically feel relaxed, your tendons and ligaments will not over extend before they are ready. The heat is our friend not our enemy. However, for those of you who feel uncomfortable with their atmosphere heated, it's not the end all! Proper warm up is always important to keep you from over extending, or pulling a muscle! Without heat we just do our Sun Salutations over and over to warm us up as much as the heat would. So rev your metabolism up via heat or warming those muscle without, the end all is the same!
Standing and using your arms to help with this deep breathing begins a task with which you'd be surprised how difficult this maneuver is! But when you finally understand what is meant by "breathing with the throat", Things will quiet down once your throat muscles grow supple.
Stay with me and learn! My next blog will be all about "Breathing with the Throat"!
Watch and learn and be the butterfly you are meant to be!
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