Word: yoga
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...Yoga comes in almost as many guises as there are yoga instructors, but most classes build on the same basic foundation of poses performed sitting, standing and lying down. Although some, like the Sun Salutation, consist of a progression of steps, more often the goal is to work gradually toward a single ideal shape: the bow, the triangle, the cobra. My needs are simple: I want supervised, intensive stretching, and every yoga class I've ever attended offers at least that...
Some people criticize Bikram for being too arduous, but as with all yoga, much of the responsibility falls to the individual. I welcome this opportunity to eschew faster, higher and stronger in favor of deeper. In this regard, the simplicity of Bikram's poses is one more way to avoid being distracted from myself...
...True Hot Yoga requires a room temperature as high as 105[degrees]F, supposedly so muscles warm up quickly and stretch more easily. This gym's drafty old studio achieves only Balmy Yoga--about 81[degrees]F--which is just as well. I've experienced optimal Bikram temperatures just once, and frankly, that's way too much bodily fluid shared and dripped and flicked around among a bunch of people who know one another in anything less than a biblical fashion...
There are eight major schools of yoga, from Bhakti, which is mostly about prayer and mantra chanting, to Tantra, which is largely about sex. Most yoga studios and fitness centers in America teach some type of Hatha yoga, the yoga of activity. Hatha comes in hundreds of different flavors--each emphasizing different body postures and breathing techniques. These are some of the most popular...
...Kripalu Sometimes called the yoga of consciousness. Students learn to focus on their physical and psychological reaction to various postures. There are three stages: learning the poses, holding the poses and combining them into a kind of meditation in motion...