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Hot yoga styles, and where to practice each
"Hot yoga" is a room, not a class — and what happens inside it varies more than newcomers expect. One studio down the street runs the strict 26-posture Bikram sequence in a 105°F room; another flows to a playlist at 95°F; a third hands you light dumbbells for a sculpt class, or heats the room with infrared panels instead of a furnace. The style decides how hot it gets, how hard you'll work, and whether you leave calm or wrung out — so it's the first thing worth sorting out before you book. Each style below explains what it actually is, roughly how warm it runs, and who it tends to suit, then links to studios nationwide that teach it, with maps and state-by-state lists. New to all of this? Start with hot yoga for beginners, then shop free first classes and intro offers to try a few.
Beginner Classes
Intro and fundamentals classes, often at a gentler heat and pace, built for your very first hot room.
Infrared Hot Yoga
Heated by radiant infrared panels instead of forced hot air — a deep, penetrating warmth many find gentler to breathe.
Hot Pilates
Pilates core work and controlled reps in a heated room — low-impact on the joints, high on the burn.
Yin & Restorative
Slow, long-held, fully supported poses in gentle heat — the recovery end of hot yoga, for stress and flexibility.
Yoga Sculpt
Yoga with light hand weights and cardio bursts in the heat — the closest hot yoga gets to a full workout.
Bikram Yoga
The original hot yoga: 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises, the same every time, in a room held around 105°F.
Hot Power Yoga
Athletic, strength-focused hot yoga — a faster, sweatier vinyasa built to build heat from the inside out.
Hot Barre
Ballet-barre pulses for legs, glutes and core, turned up in a heated room — small movements, big shake.
Hot Vinyasa
Breath-linked flow in a heated room — the sequence changes class to class, usually with music and a moving pace.
Inferno HIIT
Inferno Hot Pilates — HIIT-style intervals and Pilates in the heat, high-intensity but low-impact.
Not sure which style to start with?
If you've never set foot in a hot room, a class labelled beginner or fundamentals — or any hot vinyasa flagged as all-levels — is the kind way in. Want structure and a class you can measure yourself against week to week? Bikram / 26&2 never changes. Chasing a workout? Yoga sculpt and Inferno Hot Pilates bring weights and intervals. Sensitive to stuffy air, or just curious about the buzz? Infrared heats you with radiant panels instead of blasting hot air. And on a tired day, heated yin and restorative is all of the warmth and none of the grind. Whatever you pick, the universal first-class rules are the same: hydrate all day, bring water and a towel, and it's fine to rest whenever the room asks too much.