Very cold when doing yoga

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Kinen
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December 29, 2011 at 3:08 pm

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#2243

Hi!
I did bikram yoga for about 3 month for a year ago and a half ago. Then I did 4-5 classes a week and a 6 crazy weeks (bikram yoga six days a week for six weeks). Two weeks ago I started doing bikram yoga again and go to class about every second day. I have doing hatha yoga now and then for about 20 years, sometimes everyday and sometimes with half a year break.

Here is my issue. I get very cold when doing the hot yoga. I didn’t understand that it was the yoga a year ago but now I experience the same thing again. Sometimes my temperature are down to 35,2 C (which is about 95,3 F I think).

When I did hot yoga in 2010 it was a really hot summer, and then it was just fine but now its winter and kind of cold. I have to drink tea all day long to get some warmth.

Even though I’m not doing the yoga every day my temperature is decreasing, do you now why and if there is something I can do about it.

Thank you!

kship01
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January 2, 2012 at 2:58 am

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#9140

I occasionally get cold in classes too; goosebumps or just a cold sensation in parts of my body. I usually slow down in class at that point. One of my instructors tols me it had to do with dehydration. I don’t know if it is the cause or not. Glad to know I’m not the only one with this strange affliction.

cassius
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January 3, 2012 at 3:50 pm

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#9144

Me too! It’s usually my feet that get cold, though. I always assumed it was due to the studio’s heating system being located in the ceiling. I sometimes practise at another studio where the heating in the floor and don’t seem to have that problem then. For me it’s more the distraction that’s the problem. As soon as I start thinking “Ooh, my feet are a bit cold’ I stop concentrating on my breathing/alignment/whatever else I’m supposed to be focusing on.

Gabrielle (The Hot Yoga Doctor)
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January 12, 2012 at 2:15 pm

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#9160

Hi Kinen

OK, so your body temperature is down during hot yoga. Have you ever known it to be down with other activities?

Also can you please tell me about the temperatures in the hot room in which you practise? Do they tell you it is 105F or 42C? Do you get the feeling it is hotter or colder than that? What can you tell me about the ambient temperatures (or your perceptions of them) and how much you may or may not be sweating at the times your temperature is down?

How are you measuring your temperature and when?

Kelly, you say your teachers say it’s about hydration. That could be true. It could also be more about heat exhaustion. Please go and research the effects of heat exhaustion (leading to heat stroke) and come back and tell me if that resonates for you in any way.

Neil, it could also be the overall temperature, or it could be that you stand under a vent where you are getting blasted by air. With underfloor heating it usually doesn’t blow air over you. Would that be correct?

Over to you all, let me know what you think, and Kinen, please answer the questions. This is serious stuff.

Namaste
Gabrielle 🙂

georgerussell1234
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January 15, 2013 at 12:51 pm

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#10230

Instructors say the body can tolerate the extreme heat of Bikram and Moksha yoga because sweating is its “natural air conditioner.” It’s not sweat itself, but evaporation of moisture off the skin, that cools the body down, Dr. Cheung explains. “If you’re in a hot and humid environment, your ability to lose heat from sweating is hugely decreased because the air is already saturated
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