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Setting Up A Hot Yoga Studio - 5 Points To Consider

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Hot Yoga Design - 5 Points To Consider

 Whether you are looking to build a brand new, purpose built hot yoga studio, or add heating to an existing yoga centre to provide an additional offering to your customers / clients / yogis, there are 5 things to consider:

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 Or Go To Our New Hot Yoga Studio Design Website

Insulation: 

Make sure the building or the room you intend on heating will be very well insulated. Making a good investment into double glazed windows, and adding additional insulating fibre to the ceiling and the walls will 1) keep the heat in the room once the infra red heaters have done their job in bringing the ambient temperature up to 30-42 C, and 2) you will save money in the long run.

Heat Recovery: 

A heat recovery system works by simply adding a small percentage of fresh air to the room through duct work. The heat recovery unit will retain up to 80% of the heat of the room, while at the same time introducing fresh air into the room, and exhausting stale air. Traditionally, you would have used a ventilation system that wouldn't have heated the airbut instead just brought in fresh air, however, you would have lost all of that valuable heat during extraction, and on a cold day you would have to reheat the air that enters through the inlet.

 

Within the heat recovery unit, there is a wheel that turns very slowly. The hot air that is in the room is piped (ducted) to the wheel, and the wheel captures the hot air. As the wheel turns, the hot air is moved over to the pipework where the fresh air is entering the inlet duct. The mix of fresh air and the heated air is pulled into the room giving the room warm and fresh air at the same time, so you only really lose a very small percentage of the air you have spent money on heating. The heat recovery system is refrigerant free, very economical and will help keep the room fresh and will reduce the amount of money you will have to spend on reheating the room.

Heating: We recommend using infra red heating panels for the heating of the studio for these main reasons -

Infra red waves are the same type of waves that are emitted from the sun, which means the warmth you experience is natural and comfortable

FRICO EZ200 - Hot Yoga Heater

1. They are easy to install - no pipework, no moving parts, they come with brackets
2. They are easy to control - one thermostat rigged up to one circuit
3. You can move them if you want to change the design of the room
4. They blend in with the design of the room - they are designed to be discreet
5. The heat is instant - you can feel the infra red heat when you stand directly under the heater
6. There energy efficient and green - no harmful gases or emissions, perfectly safe
7. The infra red waves emitted from the heaters will be absorbed by the surfaces and the people within the room. It has been stated that the human body can absorb 98% of the infra red waves that are emitted from the heaters, meaning you can literally feel the heat from within and the heat will not go to waste.

In addition to using the infra red heaters, we also recommend using a high quality industrial fan heater to increase the ambient air temperature so that when people are walking in and out of the room, the air that has been heated can be maintained at the optimal temperature. The fan heater can be wall mounted or portable making it easy for you to control the temperature as the class is in full swing.







 The yogis will experience an all round feeling of wellbeing as their body warms under the infra red waves. The muscles will warm up and feel more supple allowing the client to move into deeper stretches earlier in the class. For those wishing to take their yoga practice further, performing yoga moves under the influence of infra heat can be very beneficial. Likewise for those just starting out, hot yoga can be a great introduction to the practice and may prove to reduce the chance of injury due to the muscles being warmer and more pliable at the beginning of the class.

Humidity: 

As the colder months get closer, it will be important to monitor the level of rH (relative humidity) in the room. In a nutshell, for humans the comfort level of rH is 40-60%. In countries where there is a lot of rainfall (like good old Blighty) there is less need to add humidity to achieve the above levels of rH. However, when the winter does strike and there is little rainfall, the rH of the air can drop to below 40% - without the humidity in the air, it can mean your clients may feel the dryness in their airways and complain of breathing problems.

Steam Humidifier

They may also complain of not sweating enough, or that it doesn't feel hot enough - the temperature may be high enough, but the added humidity is not there, making it feel cooler than it actually is. So, to combat this problem, simply add a steam humidifier that is capable of bringing the humidity back up to around 50% on the coldest and driest day of the year. In addition to the health benefits of using a humidifier for the room, it will also get people sweating sooner. The added humidity to the room means the sweat will not evaporate as quickly off the skin, and the body will be working even harder to push the sweat out from the limbs, through the skin.

The Room: 

The best and most effective type of room to use would be a room with no external walls, in order to keep the heat in. However, this would a be rare find, so we need to have a look at the shape of the room itself to maximise the performance of the hot yoga studio. Ideally, the room will be shaped like a box, have a ceiling height of betweem 2.1 and 3 metres with a hard floor to reflect the infra red waves from the heating panels. Any nooks and crannys should be covered up, sealed and boxed in if possible to allow for the heat to travel through the room, and heat all of the surfaces. Having windows can affect heat loss, unless they are triple glazed.

Sunrise Yoga - Ideal Room

Finding a suitable room to use for hot yoga can be difficult. The most important things to consider are the following:

1. Three Phase power supply is available
2. A D2 Planning Licence is in place
3. The Landlord has agreed to using it as a hot yoga studio

There are many calculations that are involved in specifying the type of heat recovery, heating and humidification needed for a successful installation. We have experience in providing tailored packages for hot yoga operators, so feel free to get in touch for a professional and accurate quotation.



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Hot Yoga At Your Health Club

Are health and fitness centres missing out on a golden opportunity?

I was surprised to find, when making calls yesterday to health and fitness centres, that most were unaware of the latest fitness craze: hot yoga!

I was astonished when I spoke to a fitness club manager of a well-known fitness franchise who said she'd never heard of hot yoga or Bikram before the call.

Poor market awareness, or are hot yoga studio owners keeping it all a secret?

Health and fitness clubs could potentially be losing members to this latest health and well being way of hot yoga.   All they need to do is provide a heated space, hire teachers capable of delivering a hot yoga class or and they can keep maintaining a solid membership base and generate high return on investment.

Hot yoga and Bikram style yoga seem to be very addictive for yogis, however health and fitness clubs are potentially missing a trick if they do not offer this kind of service amongst their fitness classes.

Some businesses and in particular old school health clubs offering the traditional format of yoga classes,  do not seem prepared to move forward with the current and latest fitness trend.  Why leave it so long until it's almost too late jump on the bandwagon of the new health and fitness movement - which is hot yoga right no..

Heating a hot yoga studio is fairly cost-effective and not too expensive even though you have lots of heat being pulled into the studio.  There are ways and means of making this type of class  and this type of offering cost effective, and at Euro Controls UK Ltd, we show our client exactly how much money will be spent based on business rates on electricity to run the heaters for a class (including heat up time).
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Customers are always surprised to learn that actually running infrared heaters can be a very cheap way of keeping a room warm because of the radiant effect and the fact that the heaters can be run at a lower air temperature compared to a convector system. And what we have found is our clients can charge a premium for the hot yoga classes because it is a very exclusive form of exercise.
If you own a fitness studio or a private health club or even a large leisure facility I would like to ask you the question - why not add hot yoga to your class timetable, when there is such a great return on investment involved?

We will show you how to design and install regulate and maintain an effective hot yoga studio using the existing premise.

Why Infrared Electric Heating Is The Future

We recently found these messages relating to "Why Infrared Electric Heating Is The Future", posted on a discussion forum and thought it made great reading.

Have a read and maybe post a comment on our blog to let us know what you think?

http://www.lowcarboneconomy.com/userprofile/infranomic_uk_limited/_discussions/why_infrared_electric_heating_is_the_future/3890

Hot Yoga – Why Heat & Humidity?

Heat and humidity allows the body to warm up properly. This in turn reduces the risk of injury and allows you to work more deeply.

If you take into consideration that Hot Yoga originated in India, where they have a much hotter and humid climate, it makes sense that we should prepare our bodies with heat and humidity before stretching.

By combining Heat and Humidity in Hot Yoga studios the following benefits can be gained;

·         Muscles and connective tissues become elastic allowing for greater flexibility with less chance of injury;

·         Encourages sweating which assists the detoxification process;

·         Blood becomes thinner which clears the circulatory system;

·         Helps to multiply T cells which fight infection and in turn keep your immune system functioning properly;

·         Helps to increase your heart rate which improves your cardiovascular system;

·         Burns fat more effectively;

·         Helps you to think clearer;

·         Improves strength because proteins can be utilized more effectively;

·         Speeds up the breakdown of glucose and fatty acids;

·         Provides strengthening of willpower, self control and determination.

As you can see, there are many benefits when heat and humidity are introduced into your workout, so why not contact us today for information on our Infrared Heating Panels and Humidifiers.

CAREL COMPACTSTEAM HUMIDIFIER

What Is Hot Pilates?

Core Control, High Temperature and Hot Pilates

Hot Yoga, Bikram Yoga and other forms of yoga under controlled heat, have seriously taken the health and fitness market by storm in the last few years.

Naturally, out of this, other forms of exercise such as hot pilates will compete to be the next big thing to blast on to the scene offering a hot experience within a room similar, if not the same, as a hot yoga studio with temperatures reaching up to 40⁰C.

This video on Youtube.com will give you insight in to the next big thing in health and vitality - hot pilates.  Here you can see the guy sweating his heart out while holding certain poses under intense heat.  It would seem that adding the extra heat to the body via infra red heaters or using a hot air system improves the circulation and the warmth of the muscles, while at the same time relaxing tight muscles allowing for a greater range of motion and therefore a deeper stretch.

Pilates practitioners will tell you that controlling the core musculature - made up of the transversus abdominis, multifidus, diaphragm and the pelvic floor, contributes to better posture, fewer injuries and greater stability when performing sports or lifting heavy objects....

....add some extra heat to the room, and the likelihood is that you will have to concentrate 10x harder to control the core, switching on the above muscles and performing precise controlled movements, but the benefits of sweating and detoxing are fare reaching and much needed in this world of polluted air, food and water sources.

We are in the process of providing a hot pilates studio with a proposal on taking the temperature of the room to above 40⁰C.

Look out - you could be doing aerobics classes in 40⁰C soon!

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