At the invitation of the hot yoga instructor Mo Huiping from the Yifang Yoga Center of the Sanquan Apartment Gym, the reporter participated in a hot yoga class to find out more about hot yoga.
1. Why yoga needs to be “heated”
Hot yoga was founded by Indian Bikram on the basis of Hatha Yoga, a branch of yoga.
In the hot yoga series, Bikram retained the 26 postures of the original Hatha Yoga and arranged them scientifically. These 26 movements are scientifically arranged in a sequence of stretching and heating according to the characteristics of human muscles, ligaments and tendons. Bikram believes that if the practitioner jumps to the 15th movement without properly preparing the relevant muscles, the result will be the same as doing a backflip in a hurry, which will not be pleasant. Therefore, when practicing, you must do it in the order instructed by the coach, otherwise you will make mistakes.
Hot yoga requires practitioners to be at a room temperature of 38 to 40 degrees Celsius because Bikram believes that it is easy to get injured when practicing yoga without heating the body. This is like heating a piece of steel and then using a hammer to defecate. It is easy to change it into the shape you imagine, but there is no way to change the shape of unheated steel with a hammer.
Advocates of hot yoga believe that this set of movements can coordinately restore the body to a balanced state within 90 minutes, so that the whole body can be exercised. It can systematically deliver 100% fresh oxygen-filled blood to all parts of the body, restoring them to a healthy, natural working state.
In addition to weight loss, hot yoga has therapeutic effects on insomnia, migraines, low back pain, cervical spondylosis, gastrointestinal diseases, etc. At the same time, those who practice yoga can reduce facial wrinkles, make people feel younger and live longer, and can increase disease resistance, improve vision and hearing, lose weight, have mental and emotional health, and become more intuitive.