red face

I have the exact same issue and it has been a lifetime thing. The fact that you are working hard in a heated environment means your body has to work hard to cool itself. Along with sweating, your body increases its rate of blood flow especially to the blood vessels in your skin (dermal) layer to carry the heat away. Blood flows through those blood vessels in order to cool your body down. This is really normal. If you are fair or have thin/translucent skin, the increased blood flood through your skin will make your face look very very red. Not much you can do about this, I fear.
If there was something I could do, I would have done it, trust me. My face gets very red no matter what the exercise, to the point where it wis downright embarrassing to exercise at lunch because my work colleagues point out my red face and make fun of me!
Don’t worry about the red face. It just means that you are working hard and your body is doing what it is supposed to do in order to cool cown and keep your core body temperature normal.
Freia

Hi

I too had the super red face it remained red for a while after class too. I finally started to really pay attention to my breathing, in and out my nose. It made a huge difference. I am also learning by paying attention to my breathing I can control my anxiety during the spine series. I am often tempted to take big gulps of air thru my mouth but once I do it everything seems out of control and my heart races and is hard to calm down. I just keep thinking in and out the nose in and out the nose. It has helped so much. I now can do an errand after class without people wondering why my face is so red! Good Luck!

Has anyone found that this has occurred at other times randomly? My face goes a little red in class (I’m usually one for going bright red through exercise) but I too have found the breathing really helps. Recently however, I’ve noticed my face going bright red at various times throughout the day and my body feels hot too. I’m 31 (so hopefully no menopause yet) and have been taking 4 classes a week for about 3 months.

seems i’m a little late to this post, but, in response to briar, i definitely get a red face randomly, too. sometimes if i just think about going to yoga, i’ll start to sweat a little! no joke!