Drew Burney

You know, one thing I'll say is that you get into a room with a whole bunch of other people, and in the case of hot yoga too,

everybody's half naked in there basically, you know?

And so there's a lot of like self-conscious feelings I think that come up.

The thing is, is that with a lot of these poses that you're doing, if you're super worried about what everybody else is thinking, you're going to fall over on your mat in front of everybody and make a huge ass out of yourself.

And so it almost like forces you to be like, no, no, no, come back and be present with you.

And so you're right, the physical side, it is very much a physical like awareness around it, right?

Mm-hmm.

that you're practicing.

But I think that's still good enough practice for that situation to kind of like tamp down a lot of those self-conscious thoughts that you have.

No.

I do CrossFit, which is very high intensity, short, you know, heavy weights.

I like this whole kind of barbell strategy, you know.

You go and do something low intensity that's longer.

There's a meditative side to it for sure.

But I just find it's a really good balance between like that high intensity.

You know, usually I'm a little bit sore from a workout maybe or something like that.

And then I can get in, get a good deep stress.

It's really low.

There's also just no pressure too.

Like I'll stop in the middle of some yoga and just lay down for a while while everybody else is going.