Topics
What Benjamin Ligan writes about on Notes from Hot Yoga.
01
The Hot Yoga Room
What a 90-minute hot yoga class actually feels like — the sequence, the heat, the mental game, and what the room teaches you each time you stay when it gets hard.
02
Breathwork
How controlling your breath in a 105-degree room changes what you’re capable of everywhere else. The overlap between hot yoga breathing and endurance running is real and worth paying attention to.
03
Heat Training
Why the elevated temperature matters and how the body adapts over weeks and months of consistent practice. What heat training does to flexibility, recovery, and physical endurance.
04
Hydration
The practical side of preparing for and recovering from a hot yoga session. What to drink, when to drink it, and how hydration before class makes the difference between making it through and actually getting something out of it.
05
Consistency and Habit
What it takes to keep showing up — how the practice fits alongside running training, a full-time job, and everything else. The mental side of building a habit that actually sticks.
06
Mistakes and First Times
What first-timers get wrong, what took Benjamin longer than it should have to figure out, and what anyone walking into a hot yoga room for the first time needs to know before they walk in.
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All of Benjamin’s notes on hot yoga — sorted by most recent.