An Hour of Shower...

Barbra invited Lidy and Russell to her Bikram Yoga class at Bikram's Yoga College of India in San Diego.

We had heard a little about Bikram Yoga: It's HOT, the room temperature is maintained at around 100 degrees F (38 degrees Celsius); The yoga positions are gruelling and; the sessions are long.

We should have been warned when Barbra started to force feed us water, juice and energy drinks to the point where we were spending more time in the bathroom (toilet) than in the lounge room.

We eventually arrived at Bikram's Yoga College of India and were introduced by Barbra to a bunch of near naked women as: "these are my Aussie cousins..." Things were looking up.

The time came to enter the exercise room, and we were welcomed by the Bikram Instructor with: "Welcome to the torture chamber..." We were worried.

With two mats on the floor and drink bottles at our side we attempted to keep up. At the start, it seemed simple enough.

Simple enough.

As the class got into the more extreme parts of the session, we had no hope of maintaining the poses, and even less of maintaining our balance. The heat in the room created a constant river of sweat to drip from our bodies, almost as if we were standing in a very hot shower.

Getting harder

After an hour of "torture," (and to our relief), the Bikram Yoga finished and we could at last emerge into the balmy 73 degrees Farenheit that was San Diego.

Lidy, Russell and Barbra - We SURVIVED Bikram Yoga