Hot yoga at home?

CeleryStalker
CeleryStalker Posts: 665 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
We used to have a studio close by that did hot yoga classes. I've never been a yoga fan until, at a friend's advice, I checked out a hot yoga class 'just to see'. I was instantly hooked. I'm not a very spiritual person, but what I experience every time I go to a class can best be described as spiritually cleansing, or perhaps emotionally therapeutic. I love it. A lot.

And then she closed up shop. :( The closest place now is at least half an hour away, and I don't have an hour to kill on top of the 90 minutes for class but maybe once a week.

Does anyone here have a hot yoga setup at home? I was thinking I could duplicate the environment with a humidifier and space heater in a small room of my house. That's basically what this place I used to go to did. She ran her studio out of her house in her bonus room. Big room, enormous ceiling-mounted heater, and I'm not sure what she did for humidity because I don't recall SEEING humidifiers, but I can promise you, the air in that room was THICK, lol

Just curious if anyone's got something set up like this, and if so, any advice on getting the room just right would be greatly appreciated! :)

Oh, and for clarity, the classes I was attending were Bikram yoga, so that's the climate and poses I'm accustomed to, which I believe is 105 degrees and between 35-40% humidity.

Thanks!

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  • shano25
    shano25 Posts: 233 Member
    I don't have the setup but I've heard that Bikram started his whole series in the heat after he was using space heaters to heat up the room while he was teaching. I have done the series at home in front of the space heater and noticed a difference in my flexibility even that way. You could play around with a combination of space heaters and humidifiers. Don't think it will ever feel the same though, but I guess it's better than nothing.
  • lizziebeth1028
    lizziebeth1028 Posts: 3,602 Member
    I have a space heater that's looks like a pot belly stove at home and I run it on high sometimes when I want a hot yoga experience. I find the air can be a bit dry though....a humidifier wouldn't be a bad idea! All in all it makes for a pleasant toast environment to practice yoga.

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