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  • jtiggywinkle
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    July 7, 2010 at 4:46 pm
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    in reply to: First time #7381

    Excellent Roxiegirl!!!! I’m in Vancouver, so, YES, am also celebrating our arrival of summer yesterday. FINALLY!!! (geesh!)
    Glad that you liked the coconut water. I always drink one on the way to class – it’s become my regular ritual.
    In terms of the alcohol… yeah, I can’t drink while practising regularly. If I’m going to yoga the next day, I won’t drink the night before. It’s just too dehydrating and I find that I have a rough class the next day. It’s not worth the drink or two, I find.

    Keep posting here to be accountable! I’ll respond!
    Enjoy the summer weather today (it’s going to be a hot one!) and have a great class too!!

    jtiggywinkle
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    July 6, 2010 at 7:38 pm
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    in reply to: How far behind the ears? #7376

    I can’t straighten my arms out if they’re touching the ears – my head’s in the way. If I didn’t have the hyperextension in my elbows, I can see how this would work. I think the form is still good, and my line is straight. I will have a teacher check it out though.
    Thanks

    jtiggywinkle
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    July 4, 2010 at 10:07 pm
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    in reply to: First time #7348

    NO!! not the same thing! It must be coconut WATER not milk.
    Sounds like you had a good experience today though. Good for you!!!

    jtiggywinkle
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    July 4, 2010 at 4:41 pm
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    in reply to: First time #7345

    I think that once you get your regular practise going, you will naturally start drinking enough water through your day ( at least 3 -4 L ). I believe that you shouldn’t really have to drink water throughout your practise and I aim to have a practise where I’ve drank enough outside of the studio that I don’t need a lot of rehydrating during the practise. (and I sweat A LOT!). Also, you’ll feel better without a full stomach of water in there gushing around.
    Try drinking a coconut water or something with a bit of electrolytes after (and/or before). Water flushes right through us – your dehydration and headache likely requires something with electrolytes that the body can actually hold onto.

    enjoy!!

    jtiggywinkle
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    July 4, 2010 at 7:41 am
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    in reply to: Six months of hot yoga and still feeling stiff ? #7342

    I’ve kinda resolved that the pain comes from the backbends – and a lifetime of never having done one. I’m getting pretty deep into the backbends, so know that I’m transforming my body in a way that it is not familiar with.
    However, I suffer from pretty severe endometriosis which has attached itself to my bowels and the outside of the organs in the lower left quadrant of my body, so I’ve always experienced some uncomfortableness in this region because of the deep compressions and stretches. Because of the nature of the disease, it affects me more at certain times of the month than it does at other times. So, perhaps some of the pain that I describe is stemming from the endo, too?
    What’s your opinion on this? I see that nobody has ever asked you about endometriosis before ( or at least it didn’t come up in my search ). I’m never sure that what I’m doing is helping or hurting the situation. At times, I do stay away from my practise because of it. When the endo is flared up and I can feel the area swollen and sensitive, it feels great while I’m in the room and throughout the 90 minutes, but I have more pain in the day or two following.
    Thanks Gabrielle

    Jodi

    jtiggywinkle
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    July 3, 2010 at 9:48 pm
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    in reply to: How hot is it??!! #7327

    So, there is no standard then that Bikram teaches at teacher training, in terms of the maximum temperature in the room? I wondered this. In fact, I asked this question to their website, as I was concerned for a couple of weeks at my studio too. The thermostat was reaching 118 degrees within about 10 minutes of the class starting and staying there throughout. People were dropping like flies, spending most of the time on their backs, and the conversation in the change room was dominated with negative talk about how hot the room was. I wondered if there was a potentially dangerous temperature/humidity for the room to reach…. like at the point where we feel our insides boiling? lol
    I got a reply back from the yogi master advising me to worry about my own practise and not about how hot the room was. lol
    oh well.
    That next week the thermostat at our studio was also covered in tape so I was unable to see it. I haven’t noticed it that hot again since though.

    jtiggywinkle
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    July 3, 2010 at 8:23 pm
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    in reply to: Six months of hot yoga and still feeling stiff ? #7325

    I too have been practising bikram yoga for just over 6 months now too – on average 4 times a week. I have come to the conclusion that a) my body is transforming – flexibility has improved and that b) as long as I’m practising, I’m sore. I guess I figured that like any good workout, I get sore afterwards. That’s a good sign, I guess. But, when we’re practising 4 or more times a week, it seems as though my body just stays in that sore state.
    And, then I went on holidays and didn’t go to yoga for a couple of weeks. and I felt great! Once the soreness was gone, I felt strong and loose and limber.
    My back pain was gone.
    Kinda a Catch-22, isn’t it? lol

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