Hot Yoga During Pregnancy
When I was in graduate school, I kept getting tight pains in my chest. I couldn't take a deep breath, I felt like there was a band around my lungs. One day, my heart was racing and I was having the chest tightness. I had convinced myself I was having a pulmonary embolism. I went to my professor and told her what was going on. She very calmly and sweetly told me that the chest tightness was probably anxiety and this new feeling was most likely a panic attack. Great. Shortly after that, I read this article in Oprah magazine about a woman's experience with Bikram yoga. Bikram= Stay in a 105 degree room for 90 minutes doing 26 yoga postures with no music. She was totally transformed by this grueling practice. She was able to stop taking her high doses of depression medication. I wanted to be transformed. I had two babies, newly diagnosed postpartum anxiety, an intense graduate program, and countless unresolved childhood problems. I wanted to feel n...