Had all the Sweatin' to the Oldies you can take? When outside temps freeze your nose hairs, step inside
The Funky Buddha Yoga Hothouse in Grand Rapids' Eastown and generate your own heat with Hot Power Yoga.
The yoga style is a "hot vinyasa," which means "flowing with breath." It links movement to breathing and keeps practitioners moving, says Hothouse owner Kerri Reinbold. "It stokes your metabolism and you become a fat-burning machine."
The yoga studio is the latest business to set up shop at 1331 Lake Dr. SE. Warm, bright colors, funky upbeat music and room temperatures of 90 degrees and up create an energetic fun atmosphere for beginning and experienced yoga students.
"Imagine trying to bend a piece of glass without breaking it," Reinbold says. "If you heat the glass, you can mold it. The human body is the same; we heat the room to 90 degrees, which makes you more pliable so you can stretch more deeply without injury. You sweat like crazy and it feels amazing; you feel lighter and detoxified."
Reinbold had the HVAC system designed to heat the 850-square-foot practice room to the higher temperatures without overheating the entire studio.
An in-house store will have hot yoga accessories, electrolyte-replacement drinks and energy snacks for purchase.
Reinbold and Amber Kilpatrick, community organizer with the
Eastown Community Association, will lead the yoga classes. A variety of payment packages and options are available.
"This kind of yoga I find incredibly relevant to how we live in the west," Reinbold says. "The yoga has an incredibly rich history, but we live today. We take the yoga seriously, but not ourselves. Any student that comes in will have a blast sweating their butt off."
The Funky Buddha Yoga Hothouse opens December 1, 2010.
Source: Kerri Reinbold, The Funky Buddha Yoga Hothouse
Writer: Deborah Johnson Wood, Development News Editor
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