Adaptive Stress Response: The Hot Yoga Study

"Active participants engage in a yoga intervention which entails participating in a minimum of 60-minutes of hot yoga (Bikram sequence), 3x per week in a heated room at 40 degrees C. The intervention will be 6-weeks of active intervention when they are participating in yoga, followed by an 6-week washout period where they will be asked to not practice yoga. Participants will be asked to give blood at 9 timepoints throughout the 12-week study, including baseline, week one, midpoint, end of Hot Yoga Intervention (Week 6) and after Washout (Week 12)"

"The Washout period consists of 6-weeks occurring immediately after the Hot Yoga Intervention during which the participants do not perform any hot yoga."