Hey everyone, Emily Abadi here bringing you another installment of Five Minute Friday

from Hurtle.

I know I spoke to you not all that long ago about going to my first fitness class since

early 2020 and I have become a bit more brave and went to to more this week which just

felt amazing and I was very intentional about which to that I went to because I felt so hard

last weekend that I needed to stretch in a way that I haven't in forever and decided

that it was time that I got back to hot yoga and so I won't lie like I was definitely

anxious about hot yoga because hot yoga you know how we used to go to hot yoga was us

getting into a room there would be tons and tons of bodies especially if you live in a

metropolitan area in New York City I remember some of the first yoga classes hot yoga classes

that I went to in New York were what felt like a hundred people next to each other corralled

in like cattle just sweating on top of each other so I knew that that wouldn't be the case

because of the parameters that are in place and the guidelines that are in place but I decided

that I was going to go back I made the call to go to one of my favorite studios here in New

York City it is called Lions Den they used to have two locations one in Tribeca and one in Chelsea

and because of the pandemic now they only have this location in Chelsea and so I ran a couple

of miles and then city biked the rest of the way to class and I was pleasantly surprised when I

showed up and there were three other people in class I was able to have like a whole quadrant of

the room I won't even say like a space to myself I literally had at least like a 14 by 14 square

that was mine and mine only and so that made me feel really at ease and as wonderful as it has

been to connect with other people via whatever we've all been able to do over the last 14 months

over zoom I mean nothing compares to being in that room especially I would say for me when it comes

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