Ashtonga!
Tonight is ashtonga yoga! Oh yea! Kitty and I have been looking
forward to this for a couple weeks. Actually we were hoping for Bikram
yoga, but it turns out that Ashtonga is what we’ll be doing tonight.
I have never been to a Bikram yoga class, but Kitty has and she tells me
that it’s an amazing experience. Bikram’s main feature is that you are
in an extremely hot room when you do it. Apparently this feels quite
purifying.
Ashtonga is also called power yoga. It is faster, and I think geared
more toward building strength and “power.” I’ve been to one ashtonga
class before it is was a really challenging workout. It’s quite
different from most western exercises in that there’s no running
involved. You don’t move from place to place, but you do a lot of
moving between different positions on the mat. The challenge is in
holding the positions, each of which is designed to work a seperate set
of muscles.
Tonight should be a good night!