Why a hotel room suits the gel so well
The technique makes three demands of any room, and a hotel answers all of them without being asked. It wants heat, and hotel rooms are built to be warmed quickly by a guest who has just come in from a canal wind. It wants a broad surface low to the floor, and hotel beds are wider and firmer than most home mattresses, which matters when pressure comes from body weight rather than from hands. And it wants a proper shower close by, because the session ends under warm water. A room in a narrow canal house and a room high up in a business tower look nothing alike, but both have these three things, which is why hotels are where most of our nuru evenings happen. Anyone reading this from a hotel bed is, in a sense, already lying in the right place.