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Triangle
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The Sanskrit word tri means three, and kona means corner or angle. Thus, "three corner" or "three angle" posture is often called triangle.
The triangle posture is the only posture that improves every muscle, joint, tendon, and internal organ in the body.
Triangle opens the hips, shoulders and chest. It improves cardiovascular, respiratory and immune systems, and helps with chemical imbalances in the system. Triangle relieves colitis, constipation, spondylitis and menstrual disorder. |
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OCTOBER 2007
Hydration before and after hot yoga class is extremely important, primarily because of the room being hot, in addition to the energy you exert in doing postures. Remember to always drink plenty of water before class. Try to be thoroughly hydrated before class, so you hardly have to drink any water during class. If you need to drink a lot of water during class, you may not have hydrated enough. Also, it's very important to drink a lot of water after class, to re-hydrate the body and cells after sweating so much. See this month's FAQ section below, to learn more about how sweating in hot yoga detoxifies the body, and why that's such an important benefit to our practice.
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Namaste,
Jason Wilkerson |
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Student of the Month |
Our October Student of the Month is Clete Molacek!
- When did you start practicing hot yoga?
About three and a half years ago, my daughter, Michele Butler convinced me to try hot yoga. I was an avid distance runner at the time, and I didn't like hot yoga the first 2 or 3 times I tried it. But I was having knee, back and other pains that were impeding my running, so I thought yoga would be good for me...
- How often do you practice?
I practice 3 times per week. (I enjoy riding my bike, walking and golfing in addition to hot yoga.)
- Why do you practice? What are the primary benefits you experience?
I've noticed that as I get older, my muscles and joints are so much tighter. Hot yoga enables me to stretch, and it relaxes tight muscles. Aging has also made me lose some balance, and I don't sweat as easily. But hot yoga really helps with all of that; it's cleansing and makes me sweat as much (or more) than I used to when I could run 6-7 miles per day!
- How has your hot yoga practice impacted or changed your life?
Hot yoga has helped to keep me active as I've gotten older! I love the community of people at the studio. I feel inspired by the younger, fitter people in class, and I'm sure I help to inspire students who are my age or older. I love that classes are not competitive, and I can just work on focusing on myself. I got my wife Kaye to start doing hot yoga over 3 months ago, and we enjoy occasionally doing class with Michele and her husband, Dan. I love all the teachers, and learn so much from the differences in the way each of them teach class. |
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Frequently Asked Questions |
I know that detoxification is a key benefit of practicing hot yoga. But why is detoxification important?
No matter how healthy your lifestyle, we all absorb toxins into our bodies from the air we breath, the foods we eat, and the products we use on/in our bodies. Toxins have been directly linked to many diseases including cancer, arthritis, alzheimers, neurological and cardiovascular disorders. Therefore, everyone has to have some type of detoxification for life and health. While organs like the kidney and liver help remove waste from our body, in hot yoga, our skin is most important for waste disposal and detoxification. This is because toxins are eliminated through sweat.
In class, the room is usually heated over 110 degrees, so the body acts to avoid overheating by increasing circulation to distribute the heat. The heat is transferred from each cell to the fluid between the cells so it can be absorbed into the circulation and delivered to the surface as sweat. Sweating enables the body to maintain an effective cooling system, and it is also very cleansing.
In hot yoga, our skin converts "toxins from fats into simpler and water-soluable compounds that can be easily removed. At high temperatures, when you sweat, you are removing ammonia, urea, sugars and salts," says Sandra Kim Leong in her article "Detoxification with Hot Yoga." She goes on to say that "by stimulating circulation and metabolism through deep breathing and set postures, hot yoga improves the healing benefits of any detoxification program." |
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