I know that studio ask or require you not to wear any kind of strong prefume / scent.
It popped in my mind though, that I do eat alot of garlic (4,5,6 cloves somedays). I'm getting alittle paranoid that the smell is coming out of my pores and I smell of it. I don't smell it on me, but maybe I'm used to it.
Of course there's the good 'ole Bikram smell, so maybe it blends in with that.
Has anyone smelt gralic from another student?
It popped in my mind though, that I do eat alot of garlic (4,5,6 cloves somedays). I'm getting alittle paranoid that the smell is coming out of my pores and I smell of it. I don't smell it on me, but maybe I'm used to it.
Of course there's the good 'ole Bikram smell, so maybe it blends in with that.
Has anyone smelt gralic from another student?
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Re: Garlic
Sun, April 1, 2007 - 1:52 AMI've actually smelled it coming out of myself ...I've never eaten more than a clove or two though...I also can tell when I've eaten at this mexican restaurant, but no one has ever said anything to me after class. If you take a shower before class, you probably don't have to worry too much about the odor. I've smelled a couple people who had pretty bad BO, and it was hard to breathe deeply around them and I couldn't wait for the final breathing to get out of there. I'd ask one of the instructors at your studio if they notice anything, and trust what they tell you. -
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Fri, April 6, 2007 - 5:51 PM"I'd ask one of the instructors at your studio if they notice anything, and trust what they tell you."
I did a little expierment yesterday - ate 5,6 cloves before class. After class I asked my instructor after class if I smell and she said no (I trust her, she seems pretty frank and honest). So, hmmmm......I wonder if I just keep my smells in or what. -
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Sun, April 8, 2007 - 2:07 AMWhy do you eat so much garlic? Perhaps its a wierd question, but I wonder. -
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Sun, April 8, 2007 - 11:43 AMGood question, now that I think about it. I get into habits and ruts with my food and garlic is firmly entrenched in the rotation.
I like the taste for one, and two I believe it keeps me from getting sick, and three, "why not?" I'm not kissing anybody anytime soon.
I think I set a new record last night, a full bulb plus last night.
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Sun, April 8, 2007 - 3:01 AMAs I commented earlier, I think in the passion of the moment, sometimes our senses deceive us, and we imagine smells that aren't really there.
I've imagined various things while doing Bikram. Once I thought I smelled a pasta dinner, with parmesan cheese. Another time I imagined I smelled cigarette smoke. I'm usually a vegetarian, but after falling off the wagon and eating a chicken sandwich, I thought I smelled the chicken fat in my own sweat.
A mutual friend of ours thought he was sweating chlorine while we were doing a double together. I don't think so.
One of the objects of some schools of advanced Yoga is to foster a visionary state. Visions are essentially hallucinations, and we can hallucinate olfactory sensations as well as visual ones. I might briefly comment here that Bikram Yoga has greatly enhanced my ability to have spontaneous "lucid dreams." Especially, immediately after a class. -
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Sun, April 8, 2007 - 12:53 PMI had a class where I could have swore I smelled beer coming out of the guy next to me, I even joked to him that he must have had a few the night before. Turns out, the guy has been on the wagon for years. He was in his second class of the day, and it made me wonder just how deep the classes go into our bodies.
I can usually smell a meat eater, or a big milk drinker by having a conversation with them...meat has this what reminds me of a pepperoni smell and the milk/dairy people have a really sweet smell...sort of like how you can tell a smoker by the scent. Even if the scent is on an energetic level (which it could be because of the opening of the pineal and 3rd eye area after yoga) it's interesting information.
A thing about the chlorine, I stopped drinking tap water because of the chlorine in it--and when I forget my regular water and have to drink tap I can really taste the chlorine now...I've never smelled it sweating out of me, but if the person was a swimmer who knows...maybe they've got it more in their system. I remember swimming in the pools at school, and having the chlorine smell on me all day even after a shower. It could even be from the chlorine in the detergent used to wash his clothes or towels in, I've smelled a bleachie smell in one of the towels I used in class...boy was that a long class...lol
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Re: Garlic
Sun, April 1, 2007 - 3:09 PMAs my practice has progressed, my sense of smell has become more acute and I have gotten indications of what people had for lunch. I've smelled onions coming off someone's sweat in class, probably from their lunch. I've imagined other things at other times on other people.
None of these smells were enough to distract me in a material way, however. Bikram Yoga practitioners are pretty forgiving about such things, I think. We don't sweat the small stuff. -
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Sat, March 8, 2008 - 10:37 PMokay, there is a guy in my class who smells EXACTLY like creamed corn. i seriously doubt he is a big creamed corn fan, but what DOES he eat?!! i find it pretty awful to be near. then there are the sickly sweet smelling people...and then there are the, yes, garlic eaters, and then there are the people who i just pray don't fling their sweat on me in gurasana!
i actually have smelled ammonia coming off me in class and it really is ammonia. ammonia is a by-product of muscle catabolism or break down. it happens when you work out too hard without enough carbs in your system and you burn your own muscle for energy. true!
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Mon, March 10, 2008 - 4:21 PMI haven't smelled that ammonia smell for a while but yeah I went through periods where my sweat smelled like ammonia on my towel. Now i know why. someone told me it was hydrochloric acid being detoxed from my tum. -
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Thu, March 13, 2008 - 6:23 PMyea, when i trained for a marathon i used to smell like ammonia afterwards, then i started getting into the gel or goo shots of carbs during runs and that made it go away. i would never "do goo" during hot yoga, though, bleh!
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