Final preparations are being made for my trip to India with the Kate. If you have any experience with the Kate, you know that this experience could be deemed detail-oriented and thorough...or just 'nutters' in layman speak.
Anyway! I requested to take some yoga classes while I was there, since yoga did originate in India and most true ashrams are located there. For me not to take class while in India would be like going to Fenway without seeing the Red Sox play, ya feel me? So! I'm going to take Bikram yoga which is a style of yoga that goes through 26 assans (poses) in a room heated to 99 degrees.
To Minnesotans, this seems like crazy talk. Why would anyone choose to do this? And since I have taken a few Bikram classes before, I can tell you with certainty, the second I walk in the studio, I start cursing myself for this terrible, terrible choice I've made. 90 minutes later I feel like the stretchiest, sweatiest piece of heaven ever.
But in India, our hosts recommended this class. Why? Because for a room to only be 99 degrees will feel like a relief.
That's right. Bikram studios are COOLED to be 99 degrees, not heated.
Is anyone else's mind blown? What am I thinking?!
2 comments:
you are going to have such an experience....i am jealous. someday you will go back with me, right?
i forgot to mention that i had checked your and emily's blog and both of you were taking about yoga in india at the same time! :)
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