HOT YOGA

Great class for beginners. Inspired by “The Original Hot Yoga,” this class incorporates postures from the original heated sequence with an infusion of Vinyasa flow and music. Find gratification developing the original 26 postures, as a powerful tool to radiant health. Discover discipline, control and balance, in a heated environment. This structured sequence will refine technique and help you understand the deliberate connection of breath and movement.

Bring free weights to your yoga mat to discover a heightened, more intense workout experience, while still gaining all the benefits of Yoga. Hot Power Yoga Sculpt will provide more upper body strengthening, as well as an opportunity for each individual to develop a new threshold of physical training through a Vinyasa flow style practice. Conducted in the heat, this class will have you sweating as you incorporate free weights to lengthen, strengthen and tone every major muscle group. It is recomended that you take at least one Power 1 or 2 class before a Sculpt Yoga class.

This class is a great introduction to the heat. Hot Vinyasa Flow 1.5 will provide a comfortable stepping stone between our Power Yoga 1 class and Hot Power Yoga 2. In this class, postures are broken down and demonstrated, yet advanced poses will be introduced and sequencing will be set at a faster pace to push you physically and promote connectivity of the mind, body and spirit.

Power Yoga 3 is a intermediate/advanced level class. It willl have you moving breathing and sweating with demanding strength postures in which you will be engaging your core strength to support you in inversions and arm balances.You will explore deeper more challenging sequences.

Mara is bringing the fun and intensity of Brazilian Booty Burn to the hot room! This hour long class is guaranteed to literally whip your booty in shape while incorporating poses and weights into the mix! This is definitely one awesome workout that will leave you sweating and your body burning!

1. Flexibility: The heat will allow you to safely reach new levels of personal flexibility in postures, which is therapeutic for your body.
2. Strength: Hot yoga is low impact and uses muscles you didn't know you had. Also, a prime focus is on spine strength, which is key to a long healthy life!
3. Breath: With the added element of the heat, you won't make it far if you don't breathe deeply! If there is no breathing, there is no yoga. It won't take long before you learn to breathe in a full and controlled manner.
4. Cardio: Your heart can work the same way doing yoga postures in a heated room as it does when running a mile, and you never even leave your mat. Particularly in postures when you are balancing and contracting your muscles at the same time. A 90-minute class can burn up to 1,000 calories. The way you stretch and compress your internal organs and glands also stimulates metabolism so you are burning calories quicker outside the room as well.
5. Detox: The heated room helps you to stretch more and get your cardio, but it also helps you sweat. The postures themselves are detoxifying for your muscles, organs, and glands and sweating furthers that.
6. Focus: Most Hot Yoga classes consist of the same 26 postures and two breathing exercises—and if not, there is almost always a dialed routine. The routine helps you to advance your practice through repetition. As you advance, you gain tremendous focus and determination. The ability to focus carries over to your daily life. When you can focus on the task at hand, you'll excel and you can enjoy it more.
7. Healing: The primary purpose of this yoga is therapy. With a regular practice, these postures can help to heal old injuries and also prevent them in the future. This is especially true for, but not limited to, back pain. Don't skip the postures that are slightly uncomfortable. Hot Yoga is also known to reduce symptoms (http://www.yoganonymous.com/presenting-my-heart-yoga-depression-anxiety-cancer-rising-above/) of conditions and illnesses including diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure, depression, arthritis and obesity.
8. Life:"You're only as old as your spine is flexible." ~Joseph Pilates