The Class
Suitable for Beginners & Advanced students
Leave it to the professionals! The classic 26-n-2 (aka Bikram Method) is all we do! The 26-n-2 sequence has been our specialty for over 2 Decades! This is the place to learn Authentic Hot Yoga (aka Bikram Method). This is The Source! We are Northern Michigan's First and Only Original Hot Yoga Studio!
Make true progress in your practice with Master Instructors leading the school with over 23 years of non-stop teaching experience and practice with beginners to world class yoga teachers and champions. Learn More
One will learn & progress more in 90 minutes with an experienced teacher then they will in 10 years with a novice teacher.
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CELEBRATING 20 YEARS!
26/2 TOUGH!
None of this would be possible if not for the love and support from you all, from the bottom of our hearts we genuinely THANK YOU!
We also offer The Original 84 Advanced Class, Yoga Shape Shifting, Ghosh's Original Prescription, Private Instruction, & Private/Public Meditation Sessions.
As the Pioneers of the Original Hot Yoga in the North & West of MI, we have never offered anything except the authentic 26/2 class (aka Bikram Yoga). As such we have always stood on our own 2 feet, and throughout our 2 decades of continued success we never imitated a neighboring studio's class offerings or ideas to fill our classes and therby take an entrepreneurial shortcut, due to uncreative laziness. Instead, we operate with integrity and honor. By grace, our own path to success was forged! Be Original!
The founder began teaching Hatha Yoga early in 2000 and certifications from Bikram's Yoga College of India followed as early as 2002. He has been a student of this yoga for over 26 years.
Additionally, the owners hold the distinction of belonging to the Dynastic Hatha Yoga Lineage of Bishnu Ghosh (Elder brother of Paramahansa Yogananda) via continuous study with his Grand daughter Muktamala Mitra nee Ghosh and several Rare Certifications from "Ghosh's Yoga College" - Calcutta, India. Consequently, they are certified to offer Yoga Therapy and The Original Ghosh "Yoga Prescriptions" in the dynastic tradition.
"Ghosh's Yoga College" is the oldest yoga school in the world, and is where this yoga originates. (See Yoga Cure booklet by BC Ghosh)
He is also a coach for the International Yoga Federation and enjoys coaching the Traverse City Yoga Team annually to compete in the USA Yoga National Yoga Competition. She has been an active athlete on the local team since 2024.
We are the place that originally introduced Yoga Shapeshifting to the TC community by hosting Mary Jarvis several times since 2009. The Founder continued teaching Shape Shifting after that for a couple years per her request. Currently, he much more value investing time practicing and teaching the Classic 26/2 Class Full Body Workout and Advanced Class. Learn More
Welcome to The Original Hot Yoga - Everyone has a Home Here!
This practice was introduced to the West in 1965. The same poses are taught in each class so every class is appropriate for beginners. Every session is open to new students and you may drop in to any class. Each class has students of varying levels of experience and proficiency.
Come to class with a sense of humor and self compassion. For many, it takes a while to feel fully competent in the poses. Just know that everyone there remembers what it was like to be new to Original Hot Yoga. You will love the comraderie and support from the yoga family.
Occasionally, there is a masculine misconception that yoga is something only for the feminine, and that feminine is not tough, however that is all simply inaccurate. The Original Hot Yoga is the toughest yoga class available in the world, and it attracts the feminine along with the masculine! For instance, the Seattle Seahawks trained with this yoga prior to winning the Superbowl, Tony Parrish of the San Francisco 49ers practices this yoga class, and Kareem Abdul Jamar said he didn't have any injuries in his career due to this yoga class in particular.
This class is a demanding series of 26 specific postures (asanas), practiced in an exact sequence, and 2 breathing exercises (pranayamas), which are suitable for all ages and levels of ability. Each posture stretches and strengthens specific muscles, ligaments and joints needed for the next posture. Original Hot Yoga also stimulates the organs, glands and nerves, moving fresh oxygenated blood to 100 percent of the body, restoring all systems to a healthy working order. This scientifically designed, 90 minute program delivers total health through the balancing and strengthening of every system in the body in order to prevent illness, injury and limit the effects of aging. In addition, the series of postures combines skills of concentration, patience, determination and self-control, which leads to increased mental clarity and reduced stress. Original Hot Yoga is practiced in a heated room (approximatley 105-110 Degrees & 50-100% humidity) to warm your muscles, prevent injury, allow a deeper workout, and cleanse the body by flushing toxins.
Remember: “Never too late, never too old, never too bad, never too sick, to start from scratch and begin again.”
Why The Heat?
Yoga changes the construction of the body from the inside out, from bones to skin and from fingertips to toes. So before you change it, you have to heat it up to soften it, because a warm body is a flexible body. Then you can reshape the body any way you want.
Hatha Yoga flushes away the waste products, the toxins of all the glands and organs of your body. It provides a natural irrigation of the body through the circulatory system, with the help of the respiratory system. It brings nourishment to every cell of your body so that each one can perform its function and keep your body healthy. Original Hot Yoga also utilizes heat to further that cleaning process—when you sweat, impurities are flushed out of the body through the skin.