I've had similar thoughts about the air-conditioning at my yoga studio... Many months of the year, I could theoretically be practicing outdoors, but we don't have any classes like that here.
air conditioning in a yoga studio? in the room where the yoga is done? i think my studio has AC in the reception and locker room area but not anywhere else.
yes! well, it's not meant to be "hot yoga," and I live in the southeastern U.S. so it would get a bit stuffy in there. I despair of these office buildings where you can't even open a window and are thus forced to run the A/C.
The place where I do yoga is a gym that is usually used for aerobics classes.. so the a/c is too much and sometimes we're freezing.. what a waste of energy indeed!
I guess I'm even worse because I won a power vinyasa studio with a big heater and I drive there!
FWIW, our heaters are propane, which is less of an impact. Almost all our lighting is fluorescent bulbs. We are strict about our energy usage because we are in a building where it's all one bill which is screwy.
I suppose we need to investigate this further. Thanks for putting that out there!
the studio where I teach and practice (Baltimore) is in the process of switching to 100% wind energy. I'm not sure exactly how that happens - but it certainly addresses this issue. But it's only part of the problem for me - if only I didn't have to drive so far to get there - that bothers me more.
Yes, I have always wondered about the environmental impact of doing "hot yoga". I've never done it myself and haven't really read too much about it (simply because it doesn't interest me) but I have wondered if it's even good for your health to be allowing your body to be in such extreme heat. Yeah it may help shed pounds but if you thought about the way yoga would be performed outdoors the temperature is never going to be as high outside as in "hot yoga". To me if it can't been done in nature then it probably shouldn't be done.
It's around 105-110F on a regular basis? I mean, I live in Texas and it gets in the high 90s but we only reach above 100 every now and then. Plus there's always stories of people dying of heat stroke on the days it gets above 100. Wouldn't exercising in that temperature just increase the chances that much more of getting heat stroke?
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I guess I'm even worse because I won a power vinyasa studio with a big heater and I drive there!
FWIW, our heaters are propane, which is less of an impact. Almost all our lighting is fluorescent bulbs. We are strict about our energy usage because we are in a building where it's all one bill which is screwy.
I suppose we need to investigate this further. Thanks for putting that out there!
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It's great that your studio is as energy efficent as possible!
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