Style: Hot
Teacher: Louise Sattler
Studio: Rama Lotus

Hot yoga: another anomaly? The terms Hot yoga and Bikram yoga are often confused and used interchangeably. In actuality, they are two completely different styles. Hot yoga is yet another form of Hatha preformed in a heated room. Much like Power yoga, one instructors version might vary widely from another. From what I understand it came about largely due to Bikram's widespread copyright lawsuit crusade. If you ask me, Hot yoga is comparable to Moksha yoga in that it feels like a blend of Hatha and Power with the influence of Bikram. The further I delve into the yoga universe the more the lines dividing different individual "styles" begin to blur.

After a never-ending day of dutiful tasks for the system I'm back at Rama Lotus. Today is the first of classes in their newly constructed Sun room. Dimly lit in glowing candlelight, I twist and sweat my way away from the last 11 hours. The reset button effect of daily yoga is priceless, making this 90 day journey more then bearable. When it really comes down to it, through the toughest moments I find real comfort in the thought that even on the 22nd day I'm less than a quarter way in. The unrolling of my mat is a crossing of a threshold, a gateway from the everyday world into an inner space. Every time you cross this threshold of self you never return exactly as you went in. You are altered, ever so slightly modified. You experience a mutation of consciousness, blooming and evolving into pure potential.