Raff's Brain #220: HOT YOGA PROBLEMS - Packed Mats, Flying Toes, and OBX Hot Yoga!

About this episode

Rob Raffety shares a humorous account of a crowded hot yoga class and reflects on broader themes of discomfort and creativity.

In this episode of Hot Yoga Problems, Rob Raffety recounts a brutally hot and unexpectedly crowded yoga class in the Outer Banks, complete with fogged-up mirrors, loud breathing, minimal mat real estate, and a dangerously tall yogi whose Warrior Three nearly became an ophthalmology event. From there, Rob does what he does best: riffs outward. What starts as a hot yoga story becomes a larger meditation on discomfort, self-awareness, creativity, content-making, social media experimentation, and...

People in this episode

Host: Rob Raffety

Topics covered

• hot yoga
• discomfort
• self-awareness
• creativity
• social media

Keywords

• hot yoga
• Outer Banks
• yoga class
• self-awareness
• creativity

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Outer Banks

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