Hot yoga is yoga practiced in a room heated to 105 degrees temperature with 65% humidity, popularized in the West by Bikram Choudhury. The heated room allows the muscles and joints to loosen, increasing the capacity for movement and suppleness and supporting detoxification. Yoga teacher Marilyn Barnett has produced this attractive, heavily illustrated, simple-to-follow guide, which takes the reader through 26 progressively more demanding asanas (postures) and ends with a cool-down for maximum safety and benefit. HOT YOGA concludes with information on asanas and specific health problems, a section which may be useful to a reader seeking to explore using yoga practice as a healing modality. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.