Worst thing happened in hot yoga...

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I'm in a full class...arrive late...only place left is at the front right next to instructor. Everything going really well until we had to do a frog pose and then it happened...total fanny fart VERY loud, TWICE. Please tell me no one noticed 🙈 and I'm not the only one his has happened to never ever going to yoga class again.

I knew exactly what you were going to say as soon as i saw thr thread title. This is the reason i dont do yoga!

Live with it. Don’t stop something you love when you’ve done nothing wrong!

It's happened to a friend of mine and she's the teacher!

They probably did notice but it won't be the first or last time so don't worry.
Just as an aside why 'hot' yoga? Is it not horrible and sweaty instead of nice and relaxing?

I knew it would be this when I saw the thread title.

Honestly, don't worry about it. Style it out and say nothing. The instructor will be used to it because it happens all the time in Yoga. The number of people who used to fart when doing downward dog in a class I used to attend, was legendary.

We also had a lovely woman who used to fall fast asleep and snore like a warthog during corpse pose at the end of the session.

Just as an aside why 'hot' yoga? Is it not horrible and sweaty instead of nice and relaxing?

It is hot and sweaty but your muscles warm up really fast and you can do more versus at home where I now only do yoga

Please don't worry, I have been to lots of yoga and Pilates classes and this often happens.

Sympathies.

Hot yoga- the idea developed because yoga developed in a warm country.

Warm bodies tend to stretch more easily our ligaments and muscles are softer and more yielding when our bodies are warm.
Hot yoga is done in rooms around 30 degrees- so akin to doing yoga in a studio in Goa for instance.

I do yoga ( I have only tried hot yoga a few times, but enjoyed it), I live in Scotland, often I have a class in a very cold gym or studio- often doors have been flung open or air con on because of some high work out class before.

I am a cold lizard anyway, and trying to do yoga in a cold hall, cold floors is unpleasant. My feet are often freezing cold and calf muscles too, making balance postures more difficult and feet prone to cramping.
Doing yoga in a warmer room allows us to push our range of flexibility a little further.

It can be awkward when our bodies remind us that we're not cosmic beings of pure light! But everyone's body makes daft noises sometimes and if they say otherwise they're lying. And yoga is notorious for fart noises as others have said.

If it’s anything like the class I used to do no one will know who it was as there’s tons of people in there. I miss it. I wish I were well.

There is a posture lying down knees in to chest, which is designed to relieve wind. Our teacher even tells us that!

So doing the odd squeak or fanjo ripple is an occupational hazard but accepted as a natural consequence of using the body the way it should be.

Rejoice and let rip

I do like 'style it out'

I most women let loose the occasional fanny fart at yoga, particularly if they are wearing loose clothing. It’s not a big deal but if it bothers you, tight Lycra bottoms reduce the risks.

I used to do yoga at a hot Yoga studio that had special antibacterial carpets. It was truly gross - even though when I was there they had turned the heating off and opened the windows the place still stank and if you ventured off your mat you ran the risk of stepping into a patch of carpet drenched with sweat from a previous student. It was so vile I couldn’t bring myself to finish my prepaid block of ten classes.

And don’t get me started on the skimpy clothes that the hot yoga students wore. You haven’t lived until you’ve completed a sun salutation behind a middle aged hippy dressed in a pair of budgie smugglers.

I farted loudly in the last class I went to. New young male teacher had us star jumping into a pose. 2 of the 3 attendees were clearly over 55 so he got what was coming to him IMO.

This is why I stay a couch potato!!!

I do like 'style it out'

DH is very fond of saying it. The classic use is when you trip or stumble in public and immediately look to see if anyone has noticed and try to carry on like nothing's happened

I’ve just read a great book called HellBent about the guy who started hot yoga.....
but anyway came on to say the moon cup is your friend in this situation op

It happens all the time!

I actually secretly like it when it happens in my class. It means my own mortification will be less when it inevitably happens to me