I got sooo sick!

Here’s my take, Junebug. Just my little take 🙂
I went back to Bikram yoga because I suffered migraines. I vaguely remembered that when I was 18 and did that yoga I didn’t get them. So, I went back after years of being away. After the second class, I had a horrible migraine. Just one, though. Since, then I have never had a full-blown migraine in the two years I’ve been practicing since. They’d been crippling before, and I just don’t get them now.

I imagine your body is detoxing, but who knows? You could have just gotten the flu or something. I’d take it slow. According to what the teachers say, you only need to attend 3x/week to see improvement. More if you want it to be faster, but start slow, especially since you were sick. Try every other day for a while? That’s more than what most people do!

I’m like you and rarely get sick as well these days. But keep in mind that most people, even healthy people, get sick once or twice a year. And I think it’s great that you get sick less than that, but I think sometimes – your body and mind need it. Which sounds weird, but personally, my thought process on this is that you have a wonderful body and immune system that can fight off colds and flu pretty well. Unless you’re not getting all the things you need – and then your body finds a way to demand what it needs. Like a few days spent curled up on the couch with some chicken soup and a mental break from work. Personally – I went through a big change when I figured that out. I used to get sick 3 or 4 times a year. And then I realized that when I did get sick – that some sort of self-care was really what I needed, so instead of being subconciously jealous that my husband was home from work laying on the sofa with a book being sick and then thinking it was inevitible that I would get sick from being exposed to his germs… (which was always a self-fulfilling prophecy) I would schedule a few hours of guilt-free relaxation when my body and mind crave it. And voila – no more getting sick. Well, except about a year or so ago, I broke my streak of about 3.5 years of not being sick. Realized I hadn’t been eating well (had been rushed and busy and eating junk on the go), was stressed about a number of things, kept trying to exercise through it, and there you go. Sick – and it was a doozy. But it was a reminder that I can’t eat junk so much and need to pay attention to my needs, not just rely on the fact that “I never get sick anymore”. The true statement is more like “I never get sick anymore as long as I take care of myself”… but it’s still trial and error sometimes. 🙂

Hopefully that makes sense. I guess what I’m saying is that there are a lot of reasons we get sick, and it could be something as simple as being less hydrated than normal while getting used to hot yoga affected your immune system temporarily. Or you were jumping in to do too much too fast and you were a little worn out? There could be other factors going on in your life too, or you were just exposed to more germs than normal. But I would just look and see if you should change anything if you think you may have been dehydrated/overworked/jumping in too fast, and if not – realize that we do get sick sometimes, and don’t worry about it. It happens.