London experiences,
September 22 2024
Get a sweat on with the new kid on the (yoga) block – hot yoga. Your usual class is taken up a notch by turning up the heat, the tropical temperatures help soften any muscle tension and allow for increased flexibility that lets you melt deeper into your poses. If you’re looking for the best hot yoga classes in London, we’ve got you covered.
The popularity of hot yoga in London has exploded in recent years. Hot yoga rooms are usually heated to balmy temperatures of around 40-45°C and over 40% humidity. The sauna-like environment makes the workout much more intense than warm yoga, where the room sits at roughly 30°C or even normal yoga which is simply hosted in a room temperature studio.
All yoga is a great cardio workout with a focus on connecting the mind and body while holding a series of poses or asanas intended to aid your clarity, flexibility, and physical relaxation.
Brixton’s hot yoga studio welcomes students of all levels, whether you’re new to the practice or you’re a pyramid pose pro, Hot Yoga Brixton provide a holistic approach to their practice that’s accessible to everyone.
Their hottest yoga classes take place at around 39°C and a minimum of 40% humidity. The environment is set to build resilience, strength and stamina while the class curriculum follows a Bikram Yoga 26/2 approach – a 26 posture sequence including 2 breathing exercises.
If you’d prefer a different kind of workout, you can try their low impact Inferno Pilates session, created to help you get stronger and leaner or their Deep Glow session, crafted to improve your balance and strengthen your legs. For those of you looking to wind down toward the end of the day but still burn some calories in the hot yoga studio the Vinyasa and Yin classes are a mixture of strength and balance work with a key focus on stretching and mindfulness or meditation.
Fierce Grace was one of the first in the hot yoga game, opening the UK’s first hot yoga venue in 2000. They have hot yoga studios in Primrose Hill, Spitalfields and Finchley, with an entry price from only £25 per class. The class program at Fierce Grace spans classic, primal, deep core and wild training, each session has a specific focus and list of benefits and each yogi master brings their own style of teaching. Focus on your strength and flexibility, mobility, stamina and even your alignment, there truly is a class for everyone with the shortest sessions starting at just 30 minutes.
Bikram Yoga is a form of hot yoga practice that follows the 26/2 approach, similar to the practice available at Hot Yoga Brixton. Bikram Yoga London have two hot yoga studios in Canary Wharf and London Bridge.
Classes are accessible to yogis of all levels and allow you to be guided by class intensity or how many calories you’ll burn during the session. Join their Power Flow, Yoga Sculpt or Beginners Basics Sessions, or if you’re looking for something deeply relaxing, they also offer a candlelit yoga class for beginners that takes 90 minutes and estimates a caloric burn of between 700-1200 calories!
Hackney’s Hotpod Yoga offer a unique hot yoga experience. The immersive classes are held inside an inflatable pod, heated to 37°C and bathed in a soothing purple hue. The pods encase you with sounds and scents, specially selected to suit your practice.
Most of the classes adhere to a Vinyasa flow concept, a specific yoga style that marries both breath and movement to calm and synchronise the body with the mind. The specialist Hotpod trained teachers all bring their own personality to the class covering Hotpod’s signature offering of dynamic, foundation or nurturing flow sessions, or even more intentional and rejuvenating sleep sessions.
We hope you’ve enjoyed learning about our pick of top hot yoga studios in London, for convenient access to any of the studios listed we’d love to invite you to join us at Thistle in Holborn, Bloomsbury Park, Trafalgar Square or Piccadilly.