SPRING: Warming to the benefits of a yoga practice

Spring means different things to people. I had lunch at the Country Butcher today with a friend who relies largely on a woodstove to heat her large house; she and her husband keep the thermostat on the central heating dialed down to a Spartan 59 degrees. She said all winter her prime motivation for attending her yoga class was the fact that the instructor jacked up the studio temperature to 85 degrees and she got to thaw out for a blissful hour. Now that it's warmer outside, she still goes to class, but now just because she enjoys the yoga.