Hot Yoga Burned Me Out

Hot yoga, I think I’m done.

I got a lot out of it, but over time hot classes started feeling like more stress than recovery. Constant dehydration, doing laundry nonstop because everything is soaked, and my heart rate staying elevated in a class that’s supposed to help you downshift. At some point the heat just stopped feeling good.

Studios are using more heat as a crutch for class appeal. A strong sequence can stand on its own, but sometimes it feels like the temperature is tricking us into thinking the class was better than it was. If you’re class is bad adding more heat wont change that.

This took 15 years of experience to arrive at, but I’m at a point where I’d rather leave a class feeling restored than wrung out.