Hot yoga is performed in a hot room that is heated to very specific conditions. Our Hot Yoga studios are controlled by state of the art equipment designed to achieve the perfect temperature every time. Hot Yoga refers to a very specific form of yoga that comes from a specific lineage in India. "Hot Yoga" embraces the concepts of health, and healing with special alignments and name pronunciations as well as purposeful sequencing of postures to produce very specific affects. It is not simply adding heat to a room where one practices some form of yoga. In Hot Yoga the temperature and humidity must be within certain guidelines, not too cold, not too hot but, just right to enhance the opening of the human body like a lotus flower blooming open. The nervous system releases tension in this environment and allows for the physical and neurological relaxation of the cells. It is in this state that the body may be molded like warm clay and cleansed from the inside out. You may find various studios offering "heated" yoga because Hot Yoga has become very popular. These "heated" yoga classes are not the same and generally the studios that offer these classes have very little knowledge about the effects of heat and humidity on the body as well as having little or no knowledge of where Hot Yoga comes from or what it really is. A popular comment that you may hear from these other studios is "...we generate our own heat because of the how much we move, the way we breathe and the powerfulness of the practice..." To an extent that is true but, it is not the same and does not "mimic" the practice of Hot Yoga. In our studios we embrace the origins of Hot Yoga as well as combine a number of different styles and practice them in the proper Hot Yoga environment which allows for a truly different experience. However, we love and enjoy many forms of yoga, even those not hot, and from time to time we hold special events and workshops in a more subtle environment to so that we may all enjoy these different experiences. No Yoga, No Peace - Know Yoga, Know Peace

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