10 Things Yogi's Won't Tell You

10 Things Yogi’s Won’t Tell You About Bikram
by JULIE on MARCH 1, 2011

1. When you are in an upside down pose with sweat dripping from your forehead, that sweat will inevitability drip into your nose and therefore remind you what it was like to breathe in water as a child.

2. Find some tight hot yoga shorts and just wear those. For the first few months of my practice, I wore underwear but it was disgusting. Just wear the shorts and you’ll be fine.

3. In between your spinal postures, you are asked to “put your chin to your towel and look to the left/right.” If you look the wrong way, you set yourself up for an awkward staring contest between yourself and the yogi next to you.

4. After a tough yoga class, it’s like you are drunk. Putting on sweat pants is difficult. You run into people (literally) in the dressing room. Your energy is drained… yet in a good way.

5. If you do a 60-day challenge or practice often, your priority will be washing your yoga clothes only. Your other clothes will take a back seat until you realize you have no clean clothes and you’ve worn the same work pants 5-days in a row.

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