Our Celebrity Hot Yoga Students

Did you know we have celebrities among us in hot yoga NJ?

Right now, we have THREE people on a 30 Day Hot Yoga Challenge - Stephanie DeSouza, Carly Miller and Jane Collaso.

I must confess I have a special admiration for anyone who does the 30 Day Hot Yoga Challenge, but this group of women is amazing: Carly is on her second 30 Day Hot Yoga Challenge; Stephanie has done multiple double-classes (two hot yoga classes in one day); and Jane jumped into a 30 Day Challenge after just 3 hot yoga classes. You hot yoga women ROCK!

And speaking of Rock, we have yet another kind of celebrity in our hot yoga class: our student Kathy Lightfoot is actually Kathy Sledge, lead singer of the R&B Group Sister Sledge from the 80s - and this month Oprah Magazine chose Kathy among 50 women they interviewed for their article on Ageless Women!

If you meet Kathy, you'll know why. She is gorgeous, inside and out.

Kathy just started hot yoga this month but she is already hooked, using it to heal a bum knee and stay young and gorgeous. Way to go, Kathy!

Here's her story, from Oprah Magazine, May issue:

Kathy Sledge
Age: 53

As the youngest member of the R&B group Sister Sledge, I spent my girlhood surrounded by family. I was the lead singer, but I never thought of myself as an individual. There was so much comfort standing there with my sisters.

But at 29, I began a solo career. For once I could choose everything from my musical style to my clothing. As much as I'd loved sharing the stage with my sisters—with our '80s outfits and big hair perfectly coordinated—moving out on my own was the step I needed to take. I performed by myself for the first time at a concert in Miami. As soon as I finished my opening song and the audience stopped cheering, I noticed something: silence. In the group, I'd always relied on my sisters to talk to the crowd. It sounds silly, but that night I had to find my voice.

Each time I've performed solo over the years, I've grown more and more comfortable standing out front in the spotlight. Now I have the confidence not just to sing my old songs, which, of course, I still do, but to set bigger goals for myself, like producing and starring in a musical about jazz legend Billie Holiday. I'm working harder than I have at any time in my life, so I'm especially grateful when fans come up to me and say, "You look better now than ever." Beauty is an attitude. And I suppose I have a glow offstage and on because I'm doing exactly what I want to do. That's why I'm embracing every moment of this decade even as I look toward the next.

Kathy, we look forward to having you enjoy every moment of those decades with the help of your hot yoga practice!

Present, Tense?

We're all doing it - we are literally hooked on social media.

We're tweeting to our tweeps, fanning our Facebook pages, texting with our fingertips and blah-blah-blogging....are we losing our ability to look each other in the eye without a device between us?

Is being fully present a thing of the past?

Left to our own devices, we might never come out from behind our teeny, tiny screen-centered universes. How do you keep your connection to others and worst of all, stay in touch with yourself?

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Relax, it's Hot Yoga time.

Next hot yoga class at Riverflow Yoga or anywhere else, consider that you are creating your future.

Quite literally, your focused thoughts become etched into your brain, and finally, written out on the pages of your life story. And never are your thoughts more focused and more relaxed than when you are doing hot yoga.

Hot yoga...relaxing? YES!

Why? Because in hot yoga, your teacher does the thinking. You get a break from the incessant mind chatter during hot yoga, where all you have to do is

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Angry Hot Yoga!

Isn't yoga supposed to make you feel calm and serene?

Not if you've got some surpressed anger. Hot yoga is sure to bring up whatever you've been keeping down. And that's a good thing: because when those emotions are finally ready to come up, they're ready to be done.

Hot yoga is a science of letting go: a set sequence of 26 poses done in a very heated room with specific instructions offered to keep you safe in the heat, to occupy your mind so it doesn't wander, to take you

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Can hot yoga help back pain?

Is your back a pain in the neck?

Have tried all the remedies, only to have your back pain return?

Consider addressing the physical, general and emotional causes of your back pain.

Most people don't address all three areas and thatis what keeps so many lost in the Back Pain Triangle.

Over 80% of adults suffer from back pain at some stage. Almost 90% will suffer from recurring bouts of back pain. Eventually these same people will have their older years in chronic back pain misery.

It sounds frightening but rest assured: your back pain is easily solved, with the Back Support Pyramid.

It is not a product, a system or package. The Back Support Pyramid is

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