Before the invention of hot yoga, thermal workouts usually involved shoveling coal in a boiler room or replacing football pads with Hot Pockets. Heat up your workout with today’s Groupon: for $40, you get a 10-class punch card at Ocean State Bikram Yoga in Pawtucket (a $120 value).
Ocean State Bikram Yoga's experienced instructors lead students of all skill levels through therapeutic, high-energy Bikram posturing performed in a heated room. Aspiring yogis can choose from a bustling roster of 19 weekly classes helmed by nimble instructors certified directly by hot-yoga founder and champion balloon-animal sculptor Bikram Choudhury himself. Each 90-minute tutorial chaperones practitioners through a swift rotation of 26 poses and two breathing exercises. Body-bending instructors calibrate each class to promote calorie-torching perspiration and release muscles from the shackles of over-tight ligaments, binding tendons, and rubber-band girdles. In addition to sparking caloric bonfires, consistently practiced Bikram yoga can chip away at chronic pain and reverse the effects of injury.
Ocean State Bikram Yoga’s spacious studio nestles cozily in a restored old mill, retrofitted with resilient carpeting, mirrored walls, and a host of private showers, dressing rooms, and diamond-encrusted grindstones. Rookie yogis should consult the studio’s first-time tips and bring or rent a towel and mat ($2 each, not included with deal).
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Siblings
Because it's not polite to tell a child their age, many people don't know whether they are the eldest, middle, or youngest sibling in the family. Take this quiz to find out which one you might be:
Your favorite way to influence the future is by:
a. Organizing your son's social studies binder
b. Deconstructing Lego cities built by children to teach them to doubt the establishment
c. Chewing!
Your workout routine involves:
a. Bench-pressing smaller humans
b. Contemplating
c. Running on a metal wheel!
It's dinnertime. You take your place:
a. At the head of the table. Everyone in the family will be excited to hear you regale them with the story of how you won today.
b. In your bedroom. Watching your family members chew makes you sick.
c. In the food bowl! Hopefully you'll be able to pick out some of those delicious sunflower seeds!
If you could redecorate your home you would:
a. Expand. You need a home for all your cars and a garage for all your children. Oops! Other way around.
b. Burn the thing down
c. Add more tubes!
Answer key: If you picked mostly As: You're the eldest sibling, congratulations! Your assertive type A personality makes you a leader in the family and a difficult person to watch television with.
If you picked mostly Bs: You're the middle sibling. You're artistic, emotional, and immune to romantic comedy.
If you picked mostly Cs: Your name is Oreo, you're the fifth child in a litter of 14, and everyone here just wants you to come home.
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