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51 Thoughts You Have at Your First Hot Yoga Class

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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Tulane chapter.

  1. I’m sweating and I haven’t even rolled out my mat yet

  2. This tinkly music is interesting

  3. Hm…it kind of smells like sweat mixed with patchouli in here

  4. I’m not sure if this smell is making me sick or relaxed

  5. Hot Yoga…the latest Anthropologie candle scent coming to a store near you

  6. Lady, why do you have to put your mat so close to mine?

  7. Seriously, there’s like a centimeter between us and your sweat is going to get all over me

  8. Oh look, people are already stretching

  9. Maybe I should stretch

  10. Wait but he’s lying down and taking a nap

  11. Shit, what do i do?!

  12. I’ll just sit here and watch everyone else instead

  13. Did the teacher seriously just crank the thermostat higher?

  14. Ok, time to start, must breathe

  15. This heat is suffocating, I can’t breathe

  16. I should have put on more deodorant

  17. Downward dog I got this

  18. My shoulders are burning, ow

  19. Now my hands are slipping from all the sweat…

  20. Oh my god, I’m actually going to slip into a faceplant

  21. These damn yoga pants keep giving me a wedgie

  22. Tree pose?

  23. Oh ok ok I know this one

  24. Can anyone actually get there foot this high?

  25. Now my foot is slipping from all the sweat

  26. Please foot, stay up there

  27. I AM COVERED IN SWEAT

  28. Close my eyes, grow my tree

  29. *Closes eyes and stumbles forward*

  30. Well so much for my impeccable balance

  31. This wedgie is really cramping my style

  32. Alright, focus, ignore the wedgie

  33. Ooh warrior two I totally know this one too

  34. I am a fierce warrior master

  35. My legs are burning and I’m so sweaty

  36. It’s like I ran ten miles!

  37. Hell yeah I’m so fit

  38. I should be Lululemon’s next model

  39. Crow pose…hmm my balance is really not helping me out here

  40. Holy crap, that woman is jacked

  41. She’s looks like she’s fifty years old and has three kids

  42. How do I get arms like that?

  43. Why are all these older women in such better shape than me?

  44. Ugh, teach me your ways

  45. There’s a puddle of sweat on my mat

  46. Does anyone have a mop?

  47. This is embarrassing

  48. Yessss…finally time for shavasana

  49. Thank you yoga gods for letting me nap during exercise

  50. Ah, I feel so much more awake and less stressed

  51. I’m coming back tomorrow

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Asia Bradlee is a senior studying Public Health and English at Tulane University. She grew up in Boston, MA and has a passion for health and wellness writing. Asia has experience at Boston Magazine as the digital health intern and maintains her own wellness blog, Healthy, Hungry, Happy. 
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