26&2 Hot Yoga

Twenty-six postures and two breathing exercises, performed in the same order, at forty degrees, for ninety minutes. Every class. Every time.

The repetition is the method, not a limitation. Because nothing about the sequence changes, everything you notice is a change in you — a hip that opens sooner than it did last month, a balance held ten seconds longer, a breath that stays steady in a posture that used to take it away from you. It works methodically through every major joint, muscle group and system in the body, in an order that was designed rather than assembled.

It is a long ninety minutes the first time. It is a completely different ninety minutes by the tenth.

You need no experience whatsoever. You will be told exactly what to do and exactly when, and if you need to sit down, you sit down and rejoin when you’re ready. Nobody minds. Everybody has.