Our mission is to create a supportive and inclusive community where individuals can explore the transformative power of yoga, fostering both physical strength and mental clarity.
The Seattle Times
Founder & Lead Instructor
My first hot yoga class was a revelation. The intense physical challenge combined with profound mental clarity transformed my perspective, and I felt compelled to share it.
In 2008, I founded Hot Yoga Inc. with a clear vision: to create a world-class studio where everyone could discover yoga's incredible benefits. We were pioneers in bringing hot yoga to the region, and our commitment to authenticity, community, and quality has been our guiding light.
Today, I lead a dedicated team of exceptional instructors who share my passion. Together, we strive to provide a safe, encouraging, and empowering space for your yoga journey. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced yogi, we're here to help you find your strength, focus, and inner fire.
Yoga has been practiced for thousands of years to improve health and spiritual well-being. Stretching and balancing postures combined with deep penetrating heat increase range of motion and help to bring your body to its natural state of correct postural alignment. Good posture improves circulation and digestion, reduces stress on joints and ligaments, increases energy, promotes good breathing and helps keep muscles loose and supple. Hot yoga is low impact, excellent for cardiac health, helps to balance hormones and eliminate toxins through deep sweating.
Practicing yoga can improve your focus, bringing you more mental clarity to help you achieve your goals.
Yoga and heat therapy both have many physical health benefits such as increased strength and flexibility, weight loss, and many others.
Yoga is a form of meditation that can give you a sense of calmness, and centeredness.
Decreased blood flow and oxygenation of tissue cause cell death, build-up of toxins, and premature aging. Yoga expands and contracts your body enabling light/heat to efficiently break through blocked energy. The light, which your body feels as heat, enters and stimulates your cells as photons. The photons are absorbed by the photoreceptors and strike damaged tissue/free radicals. This process increases vibration between and within cells and encourages proliferation and communication. Increasing the light in your body, also known as chi, creates waves of perfect harmony within. This incredible process softens your skin, diminishes the appearance of cellulite, and produces a radiant glow.
Most people are inflexible or become inflexible over time. Muscles and joints stiffen from under use and/or jobs that require long hours of sitting or bending. This can compress and disfigure the spine, and cause muscle to conform to incorrect alignment. Additionally, as you age, your collagen fibers begin to cross and toughen, causing progressive hardening and loss of flexibility. Hot Yoga increases blood flow to these hard to reach areas. This is key in keeping cells supple and healthy.
You will improve your balance and posture. This becomes even more important as you age. Poor posture weakens your body, burdens your organs, and depletes your energy. Elderly people who have a fear of falling often limit their activities. This alone can negatively impact their quality and enjoyment in life. Moreover, lack of physical fitness reduces mobility, bone density, and muscle mass. Correct physical alignment keeps your systems functioning properly, builds strength, and improves your self image. Staying strong decreases the risk of accident induced illness and stress. Yoga postures create stability, correct skeletal and muscular alignment, and balance.
Often we focus on our outward appearance and do not realize the effects our emotions have on our physical body. Sadness, stress, anxiety, frustration, disappointment, depression, and other emotions, show on our face and in the way we carry ourselves. Furthermore, as young children negative emotions we are not yet able to handle can be absorbed in our bodies and embedded at a cellular level. A regular yoga practice can release these trapped emotions and set us free.
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"Seven years ago, I attended my first hot yoga hatha class. I’ll kid you not, in the beginning it’s tough. But worth every second. Over those seven years I’ve change my exercise routines, but I always make time for hot yoga. Way too many benefits! Linda has a fantastic team."
Kelly Martin
March 11, 2025
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