Contest: Are You a Bikram Yoga Addict?
Here are some telltale signs that your Bikram Yoga habit has turned into a full-fledged addiction (lucky you: this is one healthy dependency that’ll never need an intervention). After you’ve read our list, share your own ideas for a chance to win!
You know you're addicted to Bikram Yoga when ...
- Facebook starts suggesting that you become friends with Bikram Choudhury and Emmy Cleaves.
- An entire drawer in your dresser is dedicated to side-string shorts and bandeau tops.
- You’re asked on a daily basis whether you’ve just finished doing laps at the pool.
- You feel chilly in any temperature lower than 40 C.
- You consider getting through class without taking a sip of water a point of pride.
- When it comes to reciting the dialogue, you give the teachers a run for their money.
- When anyone complains about a sore back/hip/shoulder/knee/brain/heart your prescription consists of 26 postures and two breathing exercises.
- You breathe in and out using your nose – all the time.
- If your vacation destination doesn’t include a Bikram Yoga studio, you make new plans.
- You can’t think of a better way to celebrate your birthday than doing a double.
- When someone asks you what time it is, you automatically respond, “Camel time.”
- Your fridge is always fully stocked with coconut water.
- Your life consists of a continuous series of 90-minute segments in which you are or are not practising Bikram Yoga.
- You miss a class and the front desk staff calls to make sure you haven’t been kidnapped.
- While all your friends are saving for a down payment on a condo, you're putting money away for Teacher Training.
- You have pictures of the gurus hanging in your living room.
- You cringe when people call it “hot yoga.”
Are you a Bikram Yoga Addict? Tell us how you know you have a Bikram Yoga Addiction by leaving a comment below (the funnier the better!). We’ll pick the best one to win a five-class gift card good at any BYV studio! Good luck!
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Comments:
1. Your back pack becomes part of your weekly laundry
2. 80s spandex fashion doesn't seem so bad anymore
3. You probably say Namaste more than Good Bye
4. A cold shower is now a nice treat
5. You get teary eyed when Survivorman becomes dehydrated
6. Sweaty sex doesn't gross you out anymore
7. You clap your hands whenever you decide to move
8. You now admire people who snore
9. You now admire Flamingos
10. Everyone is always asking you, "are you are getting taller?!?!"
2. You find yourself practicing standing head to knee at the skytrain station
3. You invite everyone you meet to come to class, the first one is always free :)
2. You freak out and start chugging water if you haven't gone to the bathroom more than 15 times during the day.
3. On Friday nights, you're doing shots...of wheatgrass and coconut water.
4. You have your favorite studio's schedule memorized, including their holiday hours.
5. You're in a bad mood for three days if you get stuck facing the "crack" in the mirror.
6. You could be a guest lecturer at a university on the pros of electrolytes.
7. If you saw a classmate wearing clothes, you wouldn't even recognize them.
8. You identify people by their backs (e.g., "Oh yeah, she's the girl with the tattoo on her shoulder," "Oh yeah he's the guy with the mole on the back of his leg").
9. You no longer freak out when you see a 60-year-old woman/man in a bikini/speedo.
10. You know that all the above points are funny because they're true.
Also, you somehow manage to bring up bikram yoga in nearly every conversation you have on a daily basis.
You get rather peeved when someone puts their mat directly infront of you so you can't see the mirror, rather than off to the side - basic yoga eticit!;)
Bikram yoga becomes an excuse not to hold coherent conversation for at least 2 hours after class.
We got one: Thanks to your big seleciton of yoga clothes - you can have a 1 week vacation to Cuba and wear a different outfit every day..or even morning will be different from evening.
People will be amazed by your outfits and how fit you are. All you say is : BIKRAM YOGA!
Here is one ... you can go 90 minutes straight without even blinking your eyes :)
Am I a Bikram yoga addict?
You can't think of anything to do in your downtime besides watch bikram videos on you tube.
When you find out someone does bikrams, you get excited because you can finally "really connect"
The bikram Vancouver website is your homepage.
You constantly surf the web for Bikram Yoga related sites whether it is other studios, yoga clothes, personal stories, teacher training sites etc.
When all your conversations end up with some yoga component in there and your friends start giving you weird looks haha!
When sitting in front of TV with fellow Bikram yogi you start comparing your thigh muscles!
I LOVE BIKRAM YOGA xxx
^ Your new year's resolution is to Get biGGer.
^ Your student fInanlly brIngs you half of hIs meal, your student's butter chIcken lasted you a week.
^ You are sO tOgether, peOple think yOu are insane.
^ You start to look youngeR as you start to get oldeR.
^ You will experience 90 yearS of benefitS with your 90 minutS of yoga.
NamasTe
Outside of class, you never bend forward without holding in your stomach.
Your friends have a running joke that everything good in your life: your hair is growing like weeds, your skin is clear and glowing, your body is lithe fit and trim, you are much calmer than you ever were, your sense of style is phenomenal, you won the lottery - is all attributable to BIKRAM!
You refer to BIKRAM as BIK-CRACK!
I first discoverd Bikram Yoga after I was going through a lot of postpartum anxiety. Bikram has helped me get through a lot of issues and its a part of my life. I admit it.. Im everything on that addiction list and more! Now because of my exuberance of Bikram Yoga, my BFF and her husband are addicted!!