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Sauna Yoga

I share my experience developing the sauna yoga protocol, and a special guest shares 3 yoga poses that work perfectly for a 3 round sauna.

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Sauna yoga revisited from Finland.

Saunatimes contributor Stephen Colmont wishes to share this video with our readers: EDITORS NOTES: Sauna yoga can be a bit controversial: just like Bikram Yoga, as some yoga instructors remain concerned: participants must be extra careful during their yoga stretches

Bikram Choudhury

Bikram Yoga: gateway drug to sauna

Say what you like about Bikram Choudhury.  His fans call him an egomaniac, a multi-millionaire yogi blowhard, yogi’s biggest asshole, the Pablo Escobar of yoga.  And I won’t mention what his critics call him.  But early on, Bikram Choudhury understood

Sauna-Yoga: Much more than just VERY hot yoga.

While developing Sauna-Yoga, it became clear that it needed to be a holistic experience.  Here is the protocol that emerged for a three-round Sauna-Yoga experience: Round 1 – YOGA: See Developing Sauna-Yoga: part 2 for the demonstration of six poses

Developing Sauna-Yoga: part 2

In Developing Sauna-Yoga: part 1, we discussed our concerns and rationale for combining sauna with yoga. Our initial results were positive. Muscle relaxation caused by intense heat was complementary to stretching. The meditative attention inherent in performing poses translated to

Developing Sauna Yoga: part 1

For a couple of months, we have been chatting at Saunatimes about investigating the combination of Sauna with Yoga.  We started with searching the Internet and the typical health and medical databases but really couldn’t find anything out there. Of

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