Help! Excessive Tiredness

Hi! so sorry you are having this problem. I have experienced this because of chronic illnesses and interference with a medication that messes with the heat regulatory system of the body. I thought I was drinking enough water, but my studio was way hotter than it should have been and I got heat exhaustion.

Make sure you are drinking several liters of water on days you don’t do the yoga, and 4 or more when you do the yoga, or until there is no color of your urine in the toilet…sorry for the description. 😆 Another thing that is very important is what you are eating hours before the class and then later during the day. Maybe others like Gabrielle, can help you with that. The other thing is that everyone is different in the time it takes to recover from a class. I would try fewer times per week til you get something that is managable and only then increase one class at a time.

Good luck. Try to be patient with things, it will be worth it, but do listen to your body.

Namaste,

Valeria

I had the same feeling quite often after yoga when I first started, but after a while it stopped happening. I do remember going for a nanna-nap after morning classes quite often. A half-hour nap usually fixed me right up though.

These days I don’t get that feeling any more, in fact I think I sleep a bit less than before.

Generally I have a banana and a cup of coffee (addict!), and several glasses of water before a morning class, when I get up a bit over an hour before. If I’m up for longer I eat more. A piece of toast or something like that that’s easy to digest might be the go. The other thing that I recently realised was that I might not be getting enough magnesium. Increased magnesium has eradicated the occasional headaches I used to get after class.

Hope that helps.

Rachel

Hi zp

That’s great! To have a base point from which to work is very wise. I’ve said it quite a lot lately but if you don’t use proper unrefined salt instead of table salt that is a great place to start. It completely reverses the common belief that salt is bad for you.

If you’re wiped out after class – just as Valeria and Allison suggest – go late in the day and try perhaps a little less frequently and work your way up to your best rhythm.

It really is quite common for people to have all kinds of reactions while their systems are normalizing. But, systems are more prone to upset if there is an underlying lack somewhere.

Please keep us updated

Namaste
Gabrielle 🙂

I was having the same problem up until two weeks ago. It may sound strange, but staying in the hot room in the corpse pose for about ten minutes after class has ended has really helped me. It sounds counterintuitive I know! But now instead of walking out all tired and spent, I walk out feeling refreshed 🙂