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Seattle Yoga News – Breathe Hot Yoga Slated to Open in South Lake Union

Nikki Chau — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:37:58 +0000

A couple weeks ago, I joked that “it’s gettin’ hot in hurr” when I wrote about Be Luminous, a new yoga studio opening in the Whole Foods complex in Denny Triangle in downtown Seattle. Little did I know how heated it really was going to be.

This afternoon I was talking to my friend Eric over [...]

Seattle Yoga News – New Studio in South Lake Union

Nikki Chau — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:12:18 +0000

Seattle, are ya ready for more yoga? Well, are ya? (Hello there, inner Clint Eastwood).

This town may lack many things: better public transit, drivers who can merge to and from the freeway, and snow plows. What we do not lack, however, are coffee shops, “pleasure boats“, and–as I stated in my Yoga for Geeks post–yoga [...]

Seattle Yoga News – Theft at Seattle Hot Yoga Studios

Nikki Chau — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:02:55 +0000

Seattle is getting colder, gloomier by the hour, and the rain has come back to resume its throne. In addition to pumpkin-spiced lattes by the fire and hibernating, a warm or even hot yoga studio sounds incredibly enticing to a lot of us, like a cat being drawn to a pile of warm laundry.

It’s perhaps [...]

Clearing Up the Ambiguity of Hot Yoga

Nikki Chau — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:09:31 +0000

When asked if I teach Hot Yoga, I often answer with a question, is it Hot aka Bikram yoga, or is it Hatha yoga done in a heated room?

Hot as in Bikram

Bikram yoga is composed of 26 poses done in 105 degree heat. Some studios and teachers call it Hot Yoga mainly to avoid litigation [...]