in memphis, people commonly say, "it isn't the heat it is the humidity." but the end result is all the same. people get cranky when they get hot. add that with the humidity and some folks lose they dang minds.
since bikram yoga is heated to around 105 degrees, i always wondered if people sometimes got really frustrated and ran screaming out of the room. instead, today i witnessed a student arguing with the teacher in the middle of class. really weird. let me backtrack a bit- first she drank water while the rest of the class was in the middle of a pose. that's not a good thing to do in a bikram yoga class as it distracts the others in class. a few poses later, she refused to get into the pose and was told to just sit down. after that, the whole arguing thing happened. so it was more of a continual disregard for the class and the teacher. all that to say, it put the rest of the class in a weird place. our teacher was able to pull it all together anyway and we got through the class with smiling faces. it was strange, then annoying, then comical.
things i have learned from bikram yoga:
if it hurts, you need it.
life is not comfortable, learn to be present and ok with being uncomfortable and/or suffering. let it be.
triangle is not easy. most people's hips are not as strong as they should be.
lock the (freaking!!!) knee.
locust is not really the devil, the attitude i have toward it is.
commit.
less think, more action.
BREATHE!!!
oh! and as an aside- i got an A in methods. that's right. heh.
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