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Meri - Emotional Detoxing

Last November I started practising Bikram Yoga - most commonly known as 'hot yoga' - which is a form of yoga that is practised in a room heated to about 40c degrees (105F) - the same temp as India on a hot day. Each class goes for 90 minutes and in the first 15 minutes you start to sweat and by the end of the class the towel under you is soaked as are all the clothes you have on. I've been going to Bikram averaging about twice a week for the last year and lately I've amped it up to three times a week and I am FEELING FABULOUS!!

I've been practising various forms of yoga for the last 12 years or so. I've tried nearly all of them with various results. This form of yoga is so incredibly effective & healing that I'm becoming a serious devotee. There's a lot of controversy around Bikram due to various reasons that I won't go into here - I kind of ignored all that and wanted to see for myself what effect the technique would have on me - and what an effect! In the 12 months of practising Bikram:

• I've lost nearly 7 kilos (15 pounds).
• Gained flexibility in my lower back which has been tight for years.
• Have increased muscle tone.
• Massively improved posture.
• Am starting to see my ab's!! Yes, I have ab's!! Visible ab's!!
• Haven't been sick or seen a doctor in 12 months.
• Increased my lung capacity by double.
• The tendonitis in my right wrist has disappeared.
• The mild arthritis from an old broken bone in my left wrist has also disappeared.
• I'm healthier & fitter than I've ever been in my whole life - seriously!
• Achieved a lot of very tangible detoxing: emotional, mental & physical.

I'm calmer, deal with stress better and I am generally a happier person than I've been in a long time. This has probably been one of the most tangible effects of Bikram for me - the emotional detoxing. My first six months I would come home from a class and just cry, but they were 'good' tears of 'letting it all out' and emotional detoxing of old 'stuff'. It was incredibly tangible to me that in pushing past my physical limitations I was 'unlocking' parts of my body that had had emotional 'stuff' locked in them for years. Sometimes I didn't even know what the tears were really about; it just felt good to let them out.

Now I know I sound like an advert for Bikram, but today I came home from yoga just feeling so fabulous I had to tell someone. This is the absolute Rolls Royce of yogas... It's not an easy fix though; it's hard work and sometimes a real killer but the results have been so worth it. My first class was the hardest; I spent 40% of the time just lying on the floor trying to breathe in the heat. But by the second, third & fourth classes I was flying through the class and really enjoying it, especially the increased flexibility.

This November I completed my first 30 Day Challenge which is 30 days straight of yoga for the whole month. This was an amazing journey, which really helped me push through old limitations and fears. And I had a massive breakthrough - for the first time in years I have enough abdominal and lower back strength to do a proper sit up. It can only get better from here.. Bikram Yoga has made me a happy little yogini!!

Meri

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