**3. Conclusions**

Vigorous, breath focused, group yoga practice offers a structured, communitybased way to cultivate physiological change and healing through a sense of bonding and common purpose. The group setting, the yoga practice, and especially breathing together provide the necessary tools to allow connection, personally and collectively. Being in community in this way, without added substances or dysregulated behavior, allows a purity of emotion and presence to connect each to the other, and an authentic caring for self and others to develop [10, 16]. The integration of health, functioning, and environmental aspects of the nested model provides a greater sense of well-being. For those of you who would like to have this type of experience, I recommend attending a class by an experienced Baptiste [4] certified yoga teacher who uses a hot room (between 85 and 90 degrees), and who has a healthy, active yoga practice her/himself in order to effectively provide guidance with breathing, aligned yoga movement, and pacing to acclimate to the heat.
