Author Archives: Rhonda

About Rhonda

I started practicing yoga at age 15, circa 1972 BC: Before Cool. Years later, I became addicted to hot yoga - 26 postures in a room heated to 105 degrees with 40% humidity. The dripping sweat, the scorching heat, the endless loads of laundry. THAT was cool! Today I have a busy modern life as a wife, mother, entrepreneur. What I don't have is back pain, joint problems, I've never even had tooth decay! I have youthful flexibility and straight posture that makes people double-take when I say my age. Yoga can change you right now. You are never too old, too sick, too depressed or too late find out how. The secret of getting the benefits of yoga is simple: just do it.

Waste of Time?

My most enjoyable way to start each day is with little waste of time . Any given morning, I can be found loading the dishwasher, folding the towels, shining up the stainless steel refrigerator doors (I did that one this … Continue reading

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Is Hot Yoga Just Balmy?

You think your first hot yoga class was hard? Check out this Ad on Craigslist: used hot yoga mat, just $1. The bonus: a hilarious timeline detailing the seller’s experience in his first – and, he says, his last hot … Continue reading

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What If Your Heart Was Open?

Is it better to have lived and loved than never to have opened your heart? COMMENT HERE – What one thing could you do today to share what you’re really feeling?

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To Do or Not To Do? The Yoga of Balance

My friend Kristen, who is on a 30 Day Hot Yoga Challenge, sighed into the phone. “What’s up?” I asked. “My To Do List looks like a seizure on paper,” she said. I can relate: too much to do, too … Continue reading

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Three Things I’ve Learned From Sweaty, Naked People

Over the past 12 years, I’ve touched more than 5000 sweaty, naked people. By choice. I am a hot yoga teacher. (No, not a “hot” yoga teacher…a Hot 26 Yoga teacher.) Our western culture tends to frown upon public nakedness … Continue reading

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Does social media make you a social dud?

We’re all hooked – we’re all social media junkies. Think you can stop anytime? When was the last time you promised to close the computer NOW and found yourself still sitting there at dusk? We’re tweeting our Tweeps, fanning our … Continue reading

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I’m not just a hot yoga teacher…

I realized one dark, sleepless night, that I am not just a hot yoga teacher. I am my own best hot yoga client. I am a woman with too much to do, and too many ghosts to feed.  Last night, … Continue reading

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How can hot yoga support your real life? Anchor it!

When you practice 90 minutes of hot yoga, you learn to challenge yourself, feel good about your accomplishments, then allow yourself the luxury to fully relax. But what about the other 1200+ daily minutes of real life outside of hot … Continue reading

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The Yoga of Bruce Springsteen

I do hard-core, no nonsense, New Jersey hot yoga three times a week; I am accustomed to pushing down all the barricades to opening my heart. But I was unprepared to be blinded by the light. I was standing center … Continue reading

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Yoga Speak

You’ve heard Valley Girl Talk. You recognize Rap. But – do you speak yoga?  I started doing yoga when I was 15, back in the early 70s.  No one knew what the heck I was talking about. Was I … Continue reading

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