Ged Carbone

Hot Yoga Teacher

Providence

Arthritic toes forced me to stop running in 2005, so I sought an alternative way to feel the “runner’s high” of an aerobic workout. I tried hot yoga in Cranston, RI, and found that it satisfied my craving for a runner’s high without stressing my arthritic joints.Aging is inexorable, but pernicious parts of it – atrophy, rigidity, loss of balance – are not inevitable. I have found that hot yoga helps maintain strength, balance, and flexibility, and I hope to model that in my practice and through my teaching as I age. The deeper I got into my practice, the more I realized that the yoga benefits the mind as well as the body. Yoga uses movement of the body to create a stillness of mind that enhances ability to make decisions from a calm, centered place. Making better decisions is not only good for me, it also benefits people close to me, so I feel that yoga time is not strictly a self-centered  pursuit, it’s better for everybody.In 2022, 17 years after I began practice, I enrolled in teacher training at RI Hot Yoga in Providence, where I now practice, so that I might share the physical and mental health benefits of a regular yoga practice. Knowing what I now know, it almost seems selfish not to share!For 25 years, I wrote for newspapers. Now I write non-fiction books and articles, often about American and industrial history. I have completed a Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University, and in 2013 earned a master’s in Public Humanities at Brown University. Luckily my wife, Mary, has a real job in information technology that supports my writing habit.