Hot yoga is the latest offshoot of yoga that has attracted a huge fanbase across the UK.
Now, the practice that offers numerous benefits including increased flexibility and strength is gaining ground in Cornwall.
So why is hot yoga becoming so popular?
Here are some of the benefits from practicing yoga in a hot room:
- Flexibility: The heat allows yoga students to safely reach new levels of flexibility, which is therapeutic for the body.
- Strength: Hot yoga consists of low impact exercises, working muscles that are not routinely exercised. The main focus is on spine strength, which is essential to a long, healthy life.
- Breath: Hot yoga is body control that promotes a steady posture while breathing normally. In a hot environment, breathing is all-important so hot yoga will teach you to breathe in a full and controlled manner.
- Cardio: Your heart works the same way doing yoga in a heated room as it does when running a mile, especially when you are balancing and contracting your muscles at the same time.
- Detox: A hot room makes you sweat and this, added with yoga postures, is a key routine to detoxifying for your muscles, organs and glands.
- Focus: A Karli ‘hot 34’ yoga class consists of the same 34 postures and breathing exercises. This routine helps advance your practice through repetition helping you gain focus and determination.
- Healing: The primary purpose of hot yoga is therapy. The postures help heal injuries and prevent them reoccurring. Hot yoga reduces symptoms of diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure, depression, arthritis and obesity.