Hot yoga a way of keeping cool

Joan Fessler has a pretty good idea how she must look. It's one of the most oppressively hot and humid days of the year. And she's in a room where the heat is cranked up to 105 degrees. On purpose. While everyone else is searching for ways to cool off, devotees of hot yoga spend 90 minutes sweating through a series of stretches and poses in a room designed to be even hotter than Baltimore in the summer. "It's difficult to explain. ... You're so at peace. It's well worth the suffering," Fessler, 52, a Towson, Md., teacher said after a recent workout at Bikram Yoga Baltimore, a studio in Cockeysville, Md. Actually, she and others say, Bikram yoga helps them cope with sweltering summer days. "When it's 95 degrees outside, you're just thanking God you're not in triangle pose," says Eddie Garner, who owns the studio with his wife,... [read full story]