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I live in Arizona and it just seems like since it has been over 100 degrees here the room is so completely unbearable. I use to enjoy the hot yoga and could complete every single posture, but the past 6 classes or so have been complete torture for me. I can barely get through the standing serious and by the floor series I have completely lost it and can’t focus on doing any of the postures. I’m doing the postures, but am gasping for air, drinking water, fanning myself and have cried in every class the past 2 weeks. I’ve been doing yoga for over a year and am starting to really not like it anymre. Is there anything I can do to make this better for me?
Hello Renee
I guess I want to ask you to break it down for me to see what has been happening lately. Is there anything in your life that has changed that may be affecting your ability to cope? Anything hormonal?
Your ambient temperature is very high there at the moment. Please tell me are the heaters on all class, every class? Does the system seem to be on at the one level all the time or are there varying levels of intensity?
What is the moisture like in class? Ambient moisture levels may be dry but are they dry or moist inside the studio? What is the target temperature to which your studio is heated for class?
Now that ambient temperature is just a little below the regularly targeted temperature in class, is it possible that the heaters are overheating your studio to levels required in the winter? At our studio in summer for example the heaters hit the preset levels and then turn off gradually so that the level would be maintained. In the very hot weeks of the year the heaters would be off for a large portion of the class (all automatically operated of course).
Will you be able to satisfy your own curiosity and get some stats on the room conditions? Until you have worked out whether it is you, the heat, something else, a unique combination it could be difficult to be sure!
So yes there is something you can do and that is firstly be an investigator! I hope you can get back to me quickly. It does seem that you are having a tough time and I am hoping we can work something out together very soon
Namaste
Gabrielle 🙂 -
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