Fusion Hot Yoga

namaste'. User Rating: 2 out of 5 stars 10/11/2011 I started practicing yoga and transcendental meditation in the early seventies. At the same time I attended a Christian church and there met my would be wife. In those days, the practice of yoga was considered the work of Satan by the Christians. As a result I became a closet yogi for fear of judgment and being ostracized from the church. The church finally won out and I quit my yoga practice and meditation in nineteen-seventy-nine.

Many years and injuries later I rediscovered yoga through my girlfriend's daughter who had been practicing hot yoga and I immediately fell in love with it all over again.

Yoga, has changed alot from the seventies, in that what was once a Hindu way of returning to God has now been infiltrated largely by Christian sects that have omitted much of yogas true meaning.... What most Christians seem not to know is that Jesus Christ even traveled to India, and studied under the guidance of the Masters, in both Hindu and Buddhist Temples, and was instructed in the Vedas and Upanishads. The real teachings of Christ have been perverted by the " Church, both Catholic and Protestant ". Hinduism embraces all Paths to the Absolute, both Personal and Impersonal. Its sad to see things like Paramahansa Yoganda's picture being taken down in places where it was once honored and depictions of the third eye as such - in many studios, or never considered in the first place by the goading s of the Christian sects. It also grieves me to see people get their enthusiasm dampened or even get ostracized because of things like dress code as such - as if they were attending a catholic school. What will come next, hight, weight, age restrictions....?

One of the places I see and have felt these stereotypes is fusion hot yoga. And yet at the same time students are instructed to focus on their own practice? What is ment by this? Seems that the Christians have won out again in keeping me out of the fusion hot yoga studio.

live and let live....…

Instructors are contradictory. I went to my first session last week and the instructor was very specific of how to do one of the poses. The next day I had a different instructor who pointed me out to the class for doing it wrong (the way that the first instructor told me to do it) and said to do it her way. When I attended the first instructor's class again, it was the same thing, if I did it the other way, he would have me do it his way. Very confusing.

It feels like they have their own interpretations of how to do things instead of following correct form.…

Not impressed. I enjoy power vinyasa, but they keep the studio just as hot for this series of yoga as the hatha yoga and it is so unnaturally hot that I almost passed out! This fast paced yoga just isn't comfortable that hot!…