Carson Valley Hot Yoga

01/13/2026

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.”

The hot room is the safest place for you to be. No one is judged, no one is expected to look like anyone but themselves and no one is excluded based on any grounds. Every body is welcome to a Bikram Yoga class.

Like Bikram says, “You’re never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from scratch once again.”

Bikram also says, “The best you can do is all I ask. That is perfection in Yoga, the best you can honestly do on any particular day.”

12/30/2025

We call the 26 & 2 Bikram yoga series surgery without the knife…. Here is the science of why…
Osteogenesis!!!

Yes, yoga can increase bone density:

Weight-bearing poses: Yoga's weight-bearing poses encourage your body to build new bone.
Muscles against muscles: Yoga pits one group of muscles against another, which can increase bone mineral density (BMD).
Gentle spine movements: Side bends and twists can strengthen your back and neck.

Breathing exercises: Pranayama, or breathing exercises, can help promote relaxation and reduce stress.

A study found that participants who practiced yoga at least every other day for two years had significant increases in bone density in their spine.

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas Yogis!! 🎄🎄🎄🎄

12/15/2025

Asanas demand that the practitioner learn to stay still. When you learn to hold a pose, the steadiness of the body becomes a backdrop against which you can clearly see the constant movement of the mind.

Yoga’s greatness is in its ability to help one be present, clear, and wise.

Classes today 9 am and 4 pm

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12/12/2025

Welcome to the 12:12 Portal 💫

As we become consciously aware of our thoughts, we can learn to shift them in the direction of our intention. It is at this point we enter the space of creation.

This is how powerful you are!

Consciousness guides cellular structure.
How you believe, is being absorbed by your body
and acted upon.

Come focus on your self for 90 mins. Watch your thoughts and master your mind.

Classes 9:00 am and 4:00 pm today !

12/09/2025

Bikram Yoga utilizes 26 of the ancient Hatha Yoga postures in a unique therapeutic sequence, as well as two breathing exercises taught in a heated yoga room. The heat increases your circulation as well as allows the muscles to more easily stretch. Each session is 90 minutes, designed to work through all the major systems of your body. The class begins with Pranayama breathing to oxygenate your body. Then, throughout the sequence you bend the spine in all four directions to encourage proper alignment. You also compress and stretch your spine a number of times to maintain its full mobility and create space between your vertebrae, which is particularly important as we age.

Once your spine is happier, you feel better and that’s not by accident. Since all of the nerve endings coming off of your spine go to your organs, your organs can again function at their maximum capacity and that starts happening just 15 minutes into the start of class.�Everything about the Bikram Yoga series is by design. The postures and their holds create a tourniquet effect in your body. In essence, you are ringing out your organs like a dirty dish rag. Then you stand in stillness to allow fresh oxygenated blood to flood through you like a high-speed irrigation system.

On top of what’s physically happening to your body, there’s also a powerful mental component. Every studio has mirrors. On day one if you don’t like what you see, there is nowhere to hide from that. The self-realization aspect of Bikram yoga can be the hardest to confront but over time that changes as your mind and perspective shift based on what you’ve learned about yourself—that you are capable of far more than you ever believed. You become your own best teacher and you learn to fall in love with yourself.

For 90 minutes you are in a moving meditation as your mind thinks of each body part, freeing it from the outside world. The best part is, the sequence is completely accessible to everybody and every BODY, regardless of size, shape, age or physical limitation. It doesn’t matter if you are the most athletic person on the planet or if you have a severe disability, you can do the yoga.

12/08/2025

When we practice Bikram Yoga, during the 90 minutes we move the spine in 8 directions, we compress it in 8 directions and open it in 8 directions. After moving the spine to it's full potential and full range of motions, the spine is balanced. Each and every vertebra, 26 of them get exercise, nutrition, stimulation which restore the spine by reclaiming range of motion. Because the spine is the highway to the brain, stimulation of the spine stimulates the nervous system directly and is tremendously healthy for brain function and your mind-body coordination.

Your spine loves Bikram's Torture Chamber 😁❤️‍🔥✨



Classes today 9:00am and 4:00 pm

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12/04/2025

Who you are physically is what you think and feel and believe. Health is not just the absence of disease, it is the harmonious integration of our consciousness, our physical selves, and the universe around us.

Asanas demand that the practitioner learn to stay still. When you learn to hold a pose, the steadiness of the body becomes a backdrop against which you can clearly see the constant movement of the mind.

Yoga’s greatness is in its ability to help one be present, clear, and wise.

Carson Valley Hot Yoga

12/04/2025

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Clarion Ledger reporter Sam Hutchens did hot yoga with Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin before his LSU, Florida coaching decision

12/01/2025

How many times have you heard your Bikram Yoga teacher telling you to “lock your knee, lock your knee, lock your knee!”?

Locking your knee is possibly one of the most misunderstood principles in Bikram Yoga. When you “lock your knee” you contract your quadriceps muscles on the front of your leg, and thereby you release the hamstring, sending the message via the nervous system for it to stretch.
You’ll know you are locking your knee when you see your whole kneecap raise up and the muscles above your knee bunched up - this indicates that the quadriceps muscles are being contracted.
There are four muscles in the quadricep femoris muscle group in the front of your leg. The one that is hardest to “turn on” is the vastus medialis obliquus (VMO) on the inside of the leg just above the knee. It’s job is to extend the length of the thigh and to stabilize the patella (knee cap) so your knee tracks correctly.
The VMO muscle is a common center of weakness in many people because it will not become fully strengthened unless the leg is regularly extended fully. It becomes more fully activated when the knee is at a greater angle, especially when the leg is completely extended.
As we age, the VMO muscle is the first muscle we start to lose. As it weakens, this can bring problems with the knee, surrounding structure and cause chronic aching pain.
The good news is that locking the knee is a highly effective way of building your VMO strength while also strengthening the entire knee joint and creating full extension (and thereby relaxation) of the hamstring.
Embrace the struggle of keeping your knee locked during the standing postures. The struggle is an essential part of the journey. To learn to lock your knee takes patience and determination and tremendous concentration.
Now...get into class and LOCK YOUR KNEE!!