I had my first Bikram yoga class last night. It’s yoga, Jim, but not as we know it! It consists of performing a series of 26 postures. Each posture is done twice. The difference between Bikram and other types of yoga is that the room is heated. Think yoga in a desert! OK, I’m exaggerating, it’s not that hot, but it’s hot enough to make you sweat profusely. I enjoyed it but I feel a bit sore this morning.

The other difference between Bikram and other types of yoga is that people tend to wear not very much. It was quite liberating doing a yoga class in just a pair of shorts 🙂

I’m going to continue doing it for a couple weeks and see how it goes. I imagine I will get bored of it after a while because you repeat the same set of postures during every class. Variety is the spice of life after all!

This afternoon I had my first yoga class in Madrid, in Spanish. Thankfully what the brain didn´t understand, the eye could see. I spent most of the class observing what other people were doing because I had no clue what the teacher was saying. Still, I learnt some new words, well, at least I think I did.