Sun Salutations Hot Yoga

Hot yoga offers many of the same benefits as traditional yoga, such as stress reduction, improved strength, and flexibility. With the heat turned up, hot yoga has the ability to give your heart, lungs, and muscles an even greater, more intense workout. A heated environment can make the practice of yoga more challenging, but some of the benefits may be worth it.

The heat allows you to stretch a little further and achieve a greater range of motion. As you get older, your flexibility usually decreases, especially if you spend a lot of time sitting, which leads to pain and immobility. Yoga can help reverse this process.

A 2013 study of hot yoga found that after 8 weeks, yoga participants had greater flexibility in their low back, shoulders, and hamstrings than the control group. The practice also increased cardiorespiratory and muscular endurance as well as physical strength.

Many yoga poses require you to bear your body weight in new and often challenging ways, including balancing on one leg or supporting yourself with your arms. Holding these poses over the course of several breaths helps build muscular strength and endurance.

As a byproduct of getting stronger, you can expect to see muscle tone and help with shaping long, lean muscles in your legs, arms, back, and abdomen.

Balance training is important at any age.  Improved balance is one of the most important benefits of yoga.  Poses that require you to stand on one leg, and, for more advanced practitioners, turn you upside-down in an inversion, can be a great way to build core strength. Balance training improves posture and functionality to help you move more efficiently through everyday life. Exercises that strengthen and stabilize the core can promote agility and prevent accidents from stumbling or falling.

Classes are limited to 7 and studio hours are half hour prior to and after class,  as recommended by Interior Health COVID protocols.  COVID compliant as per protocols.