If you love fresh, hot, clean-smelling yoga like we do at Hot Yoga Republic, then in the words of Madonna…we’ve got something to say about it!

We know that HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning) might seem like a boring technical thing that happens to the innards of your home to guarantee your house stays warm or cold depending upon the season. Definitely not sexy, and something to deal with only on occasion when it goes wonky.

But we’ve come to understand that HVAC, true Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning, is one of the most vital elements of your workout.

True HVAC provides not only the amazing heat at HYR, but it’s also essential to your oxygen uptake and cardiovascular system’s overall function. (Which of course ties into your brain and heart health.)

So here’s a quick AP HVAC AF lesson and what makes HYR’s HVAC truly sexy…

The History of How Hot Yoga Studios Get Hot:

For many years, many hot yoga studios simply affixed superficial heaters to the ceiling or the walls of the yoga studio, or placed space heaters around the perimeter of the room, those metal box thingy’s that smell funky and that heat the air already within a room. This is not true HVAC, this is simply a way to heat stale stagnant air. And if there’s any condensation on the mirror, without the introduction of true humidity, that condensation is simply your fellow yogis expelled breath, sweat and…well…you can fill in the blanks here.

Another option that’s popular right now for many studios is hanging radiant heat panels from the ceiling to heat clients from the inside out. Seal up the room to keep the heat in and, Bob’s Your Uncle, the class is hot and people sweat. But again, without the introduction of sanitized humidity, any humidity that you experience in that room is from the sweat and bodily excretions of your fellow yogis.

Um…Ew.

For more than a decade, HYR Co-founder Jessica Smith studied the HVAC systems of not only yoga not yoga studios, but also spas, steam rooms and saunas.

Working with a team of mechanical engineers from some of the most prestigious HVAC companies in California (whose other clients include stadiums and hospitals), Jessica envisioned a now patent-pending HVAC system for Hot Yoga Republic that is like no other hot yoga studio’s HVAC system in the country.

Here’s the HYR HVAC difference:

• When you step into HYR’s studio you can feel a velvet tidal wave of quiet, heated, humidified air flood into the length of the right side of the room. Yes, that air is moving.

• This air is being pulled in from the outside through massive tubes. The fresh air is then heated to high temperatures and infused with sanitized steam humidity.

• That heated, sanitized, humidified fresh air is then gently pulled across the HYR studio and vacuumed out through 10 HEPA-filtered vents on the opposite side of the studio.

• HEPA stands for High Efficiency Particulate Air filter.

• Meanwhile, fresh air is continuously being pulled in, repeating this process over and over and over, so you are never breathing other members expelled carbon dioxide for any measurable period of time.

• At approximately 3-5 minutes after class is finished, you’ll hear our powerful fans kick on and evacuate the room completely, so that the room is totally fresh and clean ready for the next class, when the process begins all over again.

This computerized process repeats every single Hot Yoga Republic class, 365 days a year…that’s more than 2000 classes!

Is this process complex and and does it require extensive (aka expensive) monthly service from a team of techs to keep it running smoothly?

Yes.

But we think your health is worth it.