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Hi all
What about all the people who do ashtanga en hot places? For example summer in the tropics can reach temperatures between 40 ­ 44 degrees. I think the idea of being comfortable is a strange western obsession which naturally goes out of the window if you pursue anything in profundity whether it is an intellectual, spiritual or physical quest or all of these things combined. Like the idea that it is abnormal to feel pain (reach for the aspirin quick!) which is taken to such lengths that in Rio de Janeiro, where most of the population can claim some African or indigenous descent, natural childbirth is a rarity. Why feel pain if you can take an anaesthetic & have surgery? The idea of drinking water in the middle of a yoga sequence is reminiscent of kids in school desperate for some excuse to get out of the class. Surely it’s not so hard to concentrate that long?
Vik
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