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Caroline LaRocca: “I felt cleansed. I felt exhausted. I worked every system of my body. And my mind.”
HOT YOGA: AN ALTERNATIVE FOR SOME “I was 44. I’m now 52. And I feel 30. Because of hot yoga.”
Caroline LaRocca has been in a highstress, pressure-packed profession for 20 years and until 2012 “I was in a dark place” where the intensity of planning and delivering weddings could wallop her. “Since 2012, I have practiced weekly. I have practiced in every city I’ve travelled to. I have a membership
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in New York City and in Virginia. I got certified to teach in 2014. It became a way of life for me.” She discovered hot yoga in 2012 at Brooklyn’s Sacred Studio and at first “I was intimidated and didn’t think I’d make it through class because it was 105 degrees in the room. I got through though. I did all 26 postures. Tears
