30 Days of Bikram Yoga

So Kassy and I have a friend, Natalie, who signed up to do 60 consecutive days of Bikram Yoga here in Austin; it's a huge competition between Austin and San Antonio to see which city can get more people to follow through with the 60 days.  We thought that was awesome, so we decided to challenge ourselves and sign up for one month of unlimited bikram yoga sessions and go every single day for 30 days on our own, since we were too late to sign up for the 60 day challenge.  Neither Kassy nor I have ever done Bikram yoga, and I have only ever done about three sessions of yoga during high school, like 5 years ago, so it's a big challenge for both of us.
Let me tell you a little bit about Bikram yoga;  it is a modified version of "regular" yoga with only 26 positions.  It supposedly helps you deal with stress better and makes your bodily systems work better, more so than other forms of yoga - who knows?  But anyway, it is done in a room that is heated to 105 degrees F and each session is 90 minutes.  So it's basically ridiculously intense and you sweat A LOT.
It's gonna be incredible.

We started yesterday, and let me tell you, it was serious stuff.  We were both sweating like crazy within ten minutes and the poses were really difficult.  We both managed to actually do almost every pose  and breathing exercise (although not all very well) and the teacher even complimented us after class about how well we did for our first time!  The place we went was AWESOME.  Our teacher was named Nora and she gave us complimentary yoga mats and towels to use for our first time, cold gatorades, and powder things to mix with water to restore electrolytes etc. after the class was done.  We weren't expecting any of that at all, and it was so thoughtful and nice of her and the staff to do that.

After class we were both feeling super energized and healthy and everything, so we went to Wal-Mart and bought chicken and broccoli to make a super healthy dinner and we got gatorade for our next few days of classes and yoga mats so we won't have to rent them from the place.  We're both super excited about what is yet to come, and how much we are going to improve!