Heat & Yoga at Home
Sheila Cat wanted a picture of herself posted again– “it’s been too long since my fluffy magnificence has graced the internet!” she squeaked… 
I don’t understand why the top is cut off. She has very nice, big fluffy grey ears in the original picture & real life!
I’ve been practicing at home for the past few days this week, mostly to prevent a tweak in a hamstring that is just signaling it wants to tweak. And of course I’m a big ole fan of heated yoga. I’ve had friends ask previously how I heat the room for yoga at home, especially friends whose best available practice room might be a drafty basement, & wanted to pass on the few tricks I use.
First off, I really can’t heat the whole house just to get my yoga space nice’n'toasty. Partly because we have old radiator heat here in Cambridge that takes FOREVER to bring the temperature up or down. And mostly because Beloved Husband barely tolerates keeping the house at 70 degrees & would prefer to live in a meat locker. So I only heat the room itself.
And the big key is, I heat specifically a mat sized area. Trying to heat the whole room (& it’s not a large room, small spare bedroom size) wasn’t working as well as I’d like, so I’ve targeted down very specifically. I have two space heaters aimed right at the side & front of my mat, about a foot or two away. Plus a humidifier. Let those puppies run for an hour or so while I work in the room or do so easy warm up stuff & it’s okay for yoga. Not as hot as I would like (it rarely is , but good nuf!
Practice today was a little warm up then Day 4 from the Forrest 5 Day. Tasty twisting.
Tags: Daily Yoga Practice, Hot yoga