Which Hot Yoga Chain Do Students Rate Best? (2026)

The chain league table

YogaSix takes the crown at 4.85★ averaged across its 60 locations — a hair ahead of Hot 8 Yoga at 4.79★. Worth knowing before you read too much into it: the chains sell different experiences — CorePower leans heated Sculpt and C2 power flow, HOTWORX runs 24-hour infrared sauna sessions, YogaSix spans heated and unheated — and the biggest chains carry vastly more reviews per studio.

Honest framing: these are location-level Google averages left by students — a measure of the studio experience, not a corporate scorecard. A chain only enters the table once it has 10+ rated locations in the directory.

The CorePower spread: worst to best

Here's the finding that surprised us. Across 166 CorePower Yoga studios, the gap between the best-rated location in America (Coral Gables, FL at 5★) and the lowest (Miami, FL at 3.2★) is just 1.8 stars. 30 of the 166 studios sit exactly at 4.7★. Whatever you think of the big-brand model, the data says the experience is remarkably uniform — there is effectively no "bad" CorePower, and the standouts below earn their stars against 10,351 reviews chain-wide.

The 10 highest-rated CorePower studios in America

Every one of the 166 locations, ranked, is in the CSV below. Comparing studios near you? The CorePower Yoga directory ranks all locations state by state, and the other chain pages do the same.