Beyond Adversarial Performance
The Control Loop Framework was developed primarily in adversarial and competitive contexts—tennis, trading, executive decision-making. The Refinement Study extends CLF into a different class of performance demand: fixed-sequence, high-thermal, communion-organized practice. Bikram yoga is not sport-adjacent. It belongs to a distinct epistemological tradition organized around environmental communion rather than opposition. The question is: what happens to reference signal architecture when subjected to sustained thermal load in a non-adversarial context? The Refinement Study investigates this question through N=1 autoethnography at Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley. Each 90-minute session at 105°F becomes a structured data-generation event. The researcher serves simultaneously as practitioner, instrument, and analyst. This is not a recovery or wellness project. It is a rigorous CLF investigation into somatic reorganization.