Last night Sweatbox Yoga got new floors. I definitely wanted to be one of the first students to grace the not-carpet with my sweat, so I got up early and headed to the 10 AM. I wasn’t the only one who felt like devirginizing the flotex this morning, the class was one of the busiest I have been to yet.
A quick plug for the capeting: I did a little research, and it is pretty amazing stuff. It’s waterproof, and according to the website, “cleans like vinyl but has the warmth of carpet.” It is totally antimicrobial and anti-fungal, which is amazing in a place where people show up just to sweat. In actual use, it definitely lends a hand with foot slippage during some of the separate leg poses – especially trikanasana. Yay for studio improvements! I already think Sweatbox Yoga is the best, but the flotex carpet certainly doesn’t hurt!
The other day Bikram Butterflies liked my post, here, and I surfed on over to her blog to check it out. Wow. I have literally spent about an hour just devouring everything she has to say. I can relate to almost every single experience she describes. Bikram yoga, and yoga in general, is a really personal experience, and yet there are commonalities in the struggle. It’s nice to know that other people have similar experiences, pains, triumphs, and both bad and good days.
Today I had quite a good class. I felt very strong throughout the series, but I also had some unique sensations come over me that made me feel frightened and overwhelmed. One in particular stands out, and that is something I felt in sasangasana (rabbit pose). As I bent forward and pulled on my feet, I felt my entire spine, from lower back to base of skull, surge in temperature. It was like someone had inserted a heater right into my spinal cord and turned it on high. I stayed with the posture, because for the first time ever, I could actually feel every single vertebra stretching along the entire length of my spine. I wondered to myself if this is what it felt like to actually stretch the spinal cord? As I returned to a seated position, and subsequently into savasana, the heat slowly slowly subsided. I sat out the second set of the posture, because I could still feel the heat up and down my back like a hot water bottle, and I was afraid that I had hurt myself. The last of the warm sensation slowly drifted away though, and by about half and hour after class was over, there was nothing left.
I wonder what that was… and if it will come back tomorrow?
Warmly yours,
-C
March 26, 2012 at 3:52 am
Oh honey, you are just the sweetest! I started reading this post and was all excited to tell you about my deep, deep love of flotex… and then I got to the next paragraph and just kind of froze, lol. Thank you so much 🙂
And now back to our originally programmed content: Flotex is the only reason I could commit to a challenge in the first place. I have really soft skin (especially after sweating for 90 minutes!) and the old carpet in my studio used to abrade the skin off the back of my heels with each sit-up. I had to take at LEAST one day off between each class, solely to let my skin recover. It sounds silly, but it’s really difficult to focus when you’re wincing every time your heels touch the floor! Flotex is all antimicrobial and waterproof and blahdeblah… but it’s also SUPER soft and my feet definitely appreciate it!