Have you ever tried hot yoga? If you’re wondering what it is, it’s simply practising yoga in a room where the temperature is turned up to 40 degrees Celsius or more!

Hot yoga has been around for decades now, and many people have tried it thinking that the perspiration from doing it helps to lose weight and detoxify the body. This may not be the case.

Hot yoga is practising in a hot room and if the yoga trainer isn’t careful enough, this can lead practitioners to suffer from heat stroke.

The body naturally sweats when in a very hot room to help cool it down. But the potential hazard posed by hot yoga is that there simply is no way for the body to cool down because the room temperature is hot.

Add to that, if there are up to 20 people in the room, their body temperature can add to the humidity.

On the other hand, infrared heat yoga uses safe and healthy infrared heat that directly targets the practitioner’s body, and not the environment surrounding him or her.

That means heat directly lands on the body while keeping the room cool.

Infrared heat is safe and is in fact used in medical applications, such as warming painful joints or frozen shoulders in adults.

Infrared heat yoga also uses humidifiers to ensure that cool air circulates in the room, avoiding the possibility of the practitioners suffering from exhaustion, nausea, loss of breath, and heat stroke.

Pros & cons of Hot Yoga and Infrared Heat Yoga

Why is Infrared Heat Yoga getting popular?

Because of the potential risks of practising yoga in an oppressively hot room, infrared heat yoga is gaining popularity as a better option for many practitioners.

Infrared heat is safe and penetrates the body within, thus aids in detoxifying internal organs instead of merely causing the body to sweat.

Infrared heat yoga also involves the use of humidifiers, making sure that the practitioner is not going to faint out of heat exhaustion.

Is Infrared Heat Yoga actually better than Hot Yoga?

For many reasons, yes, it is. Infrared heat is radiant heat, a form of energy that heats objects directly without having to heat the surrounding air.

Your body feels pleasantly warm without you feeling the exhaustion in a hot room. The heat in infrared heat yoga is therapeutic, not oppressive.

Infrared heat yoga helps increase circulation, alleviate aches, and revitalize your body with a sense of wellness and warmth from within.

To top it all, infrared heat is completely healthy and safe.

Who will benefit most from Infrared Heat Yoga?

Just about anyone can benefit from Infrared Heat Yoga, especially if you need to be more flexible, have stronger muscles, or if you desire to detoxify, have healthy looking skin, and achieve an overall sense of wellness.

With Infrared Heat Yoga, you are like soaking up the warm goodness of sunshine, without having to stay outdoors and squint your eyes because of the bright sun. Experience warm healing from within!

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