by HYAMT | Jun 22, 2020 | Hot Yoga News
At last, the doors to our hot yoga studio are open! We are ready to continue giving our students a radiant life with healing far-infrared heat. After the past couple of months, it’s so refreshing to practice again in the studio. For those who are not comfortable with in-studio classes, we are pleased to still offer virtual online yoga classes through our private Facebook page.
In-studio yoga classes have resumed with Enrollment limitations. We follow all CDC recommendations and state issued guidelines with classes limited to TEN participants and you must register online. The classes do not involve contact of any kind, including adjustments in postures. You must bring your own mat, blocks and blankets. No studio props will be used.
If you are more comfortable wearing a mask during yoga class please bring your own. If you sign up for a yoga class and do not attend, you will not be refunded. You may, however, remove your name via your on-line account from class prior to class time. Additional private classes may soon be available for small groups. We are excited to have you back!
For anyone who is not comfortable with in-studio classes, you can still connect with the Hot Yoga Om and Dragonfly Yoga instructors through our virtual yoga classes. You can sign up for our virtual online yoga classes here by making a donation and being added to the private Facebook page where you have unlimited access to online classes from our instructors. We have been overwhelmed by the response and positive feedback and are so grateful for this virtual opportunity to connect with existing and new yoga friends!
Welcome to HYO Studio B
It’s been months in the making and now Hot Yoga Om is sooooo excited to announce the opening of its new room, Studio B. This refreshing fitness space is a natural extension of the Hot Yoga Om Studio, transformed into the perfect atmosphere for new classes and events. Studio B is a non-heated environment for those wanting to try something a little different to strengthen and expand their yoga practice.
Our yoga instructors will offer non-heated classes in Studio B that feature a fusion of yoga and other exercises such as HiiT classes that focus on strength and intensity. Laura Tyree and our energetic yoga teachers have been stirring up their creative thinking and are thrilled to launch this new space. Studio B is located right next door to Hot Yoga Om, right in downtown Fort Walton Beach.
New HiiT Cardio and HiiT Yoga Classes
Hot Yoga Om is now offering HIIT classes. HIIT stands for High Intensity Interval Training. Best described as a cardiovascular workout, it is arranged in short bursts of vigorous movement with periods of rest. Our oh-mazing yoga instructors are excited to combine HIIT with yoga to offer non-heated classes in our new Studio B room.
Join us for HIIT Classes at Studio B. HIIT Yoga is a 60 minute non-heated practice that combines yoga with HIIT. Expect to focus on strength and intensity that will help you expand both your yoga practice and cardiovascular fitness. This class will be more challenging than your typical yoga class. Make sure to bring your yoga mat, water, sneakers and a towel. HIIT Yoga Classes are offered Tuesdays at 7:30 am with Paris Hollnagel, Tuesdays at 5:30 pm with Lori Hupp, Wednesdays at 6 pm with Lori Hupp or Thursdays at 8:30 am with Paris Hollnagel.
Nicole Markle is teaching our new HIIT Cardio class at Studio B as well. HIIT Cardio is a 30 minute, non-heated class designed to build your cardiovascular fitness. This is not a yoga class; however, HIIT Cardio will help you strengthen your yoga practice, particularly in a heated environment. Please bring a yoga mat, water, sneakers and a towel. HIIT Cardio is offered by Nicole Markle on Wednesdays at 7:30 am or Fridays at 7:30 am.
You must register online ahead of time for our new HIIT fitness classes. We hope to see you soon at Studio B!
June Summer Yoga Class Specials
Our June yoga class specials make it easy for new and existing Hot Yoga Om students to return to our yoga studio. New yoga students can enjoy two weeks of unlimited hot yoga classes for $20. Hot Yoga Om’s schedule includes hot yoga classes for all fitness levels, for beginners to experts. Our yoga instructors have the experience and passion to help you enjoy and enhance your practice. The hypoallergenic heating panels at Hot Yoga Om offer dry, sauna-like air without any air movements, noise, dust or temperature fluctuations. We invite you to experience the difference at our hot yoga studio.
Current students can also take advantage of our June yoga class specials. Current students can purchase a five yoga class package for $45 or two months of unlimited hot yoga classes for $155. You can sign up online for our June yoga class packages and specials here.
New Launch Date for AYTT
If you have your 200 RYT certification and are considering the next step, here is your chance. Our sister yoga studio, Dragonfly Yoga Studio, has announced a new July 2020 launch date for its AYTT, Advanced Yoga Teacher Training program. Your current 200RYT + this 300-hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training program = your 500-hour certification
Master your skills and complete your 500-hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Certification at Dragonfly Yoga Studies in downtown Fort Walton Beach. This 300-hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training program is tailored to the 200RYT student and offers an unparalleled group of yoga teacher training instructors. Join Laura Tyree, Moira Anderson, Melissa Shalongo and Doug Keller as they help you advance your yoga practice and profession with a life-changing experience that will broaden and deepen your insight and skills.
The 300-hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training (AYTT) Program launches in July 2020 and will meet one weekend each month. Click here for more information on signing up.
Inspirational Last Thoughts by Laura Tyree
How to Heal
Step One: After work, soul connection with a friend. Direct eye contact. Laughter. Humility. Sisterhood. Truth.
Step Two: Fire Pit, additional sisters. Stories, strength, generosity. Giggles. Questions. Answers. Mysteries. Faith.
Step Three: I’m alone with The Cure, Switchfoot, Coldplay, Pink Floyd.
Ice Bath. ICE BATH…..
I am comfortably numb.
Step Four: Private Fire Puja. Release of Things no longer needed.
I am Burning with Faith.
No words can complete this.
Step Five: MUSIC. VOICE. CLARITY. FREEDOM.
Step Six: Deep Unimaginable SLEEP. Angel dreams. Finally, Finally…… yes…..Peace.
by HYAMT | May 18, 2020 | Hot Yoga News
Yoga Classes are Good for the Mind, Body and Soul
Whether it’s a home-based or teacher-guided practice, yoga classes benefit the immune system in multiple ways:
Mindful attention works biochemically to reduce stress.
Movement for body-brain connection activates the lymph system to remove toxins.
Rest enhances regeneration through cellular repair and removal.
Sounds simple, right? It is, once you learn a few keys to success. This blog by Laura Tyree will zero in on how mindful attention helps the brain and immune system.
Understanding Your Body and How Yoga Helps
Several systems keep the body operating, like the CNS (central nervous system), the PNS (peripheral nervous system), the ENS (enteric nervous system) . . . I could go on, but let’s just say we are extremely complex organisms.
So let’s skip straight to the autonomic nervous system and its two components: the sympathetic (fight-flight-freeze) and the parasympathetic (rest-restore-digest). Reducing stress via the parasympathetic nervous system also reduces tension from the sympathetic system. In other words, we start relaxing, which improves our sleep, digestion, and cardiovascular function.
Think of it this way: When something startles a person with a healthy brain-body response, their heart will beat faster and blood will rush to their lungs, arms, legs and brain, preparing them to fight or run. When the brain determines that the threat is gone, homeostasis returns. That is a positive response of the sympathetic nervous system to a stressor.
Now, if the stressor were a wild animal attack, the person would feel a tremendous rush of energy, and then expend that energy to fight or run. If they survived, the experience would actually increase their overall vital strength. Crisis over—back to the business of being.
But what about chronic low-grade stressors? Perpetual worries and fears, the constant pace of go-go-go? These aren’t quick experiences with definite outcomes. They wear the overall system by keeping it stuck in an elevated fight-flight-freeze state, reducing the renewing qualities of the rest-restore-digest system. In this case the body doesn’t get that burst and singular outcome that returns it to homeostasis. Add in unnatural foods and unnatural environments, and it’s a recipe for disaster — a negative stress response.
When sympathetic tension is prolonged and pervasive, our body cannot metabolize food, restore damaged cells or renew other vital mechanisms. We never drop into that deeply nourishing parasympathetic state.
How Yoga Helps Your Mind and Body
Here’s where mindful yoga practices and classes make the difference. Consciously connecting to the body, in movement, frees the CNS, PNS and ENS to reset. Yoga and other mindful exercises help unwind the tangle of chemical chaos and restore equilibrium. And the more you practice, the stronger the rest-restore-digest response becomes.
Yoga isn’t the only physical practice that benefits the immune system this way. But yoga is extremely popular for this purpose, for several subtle reasons.
First, along with the physical practice, yoga teachers often discuss universal philosophies—like peaceful action, truthfulness, discipline and acceptance—that help us recognize negative thought patterns affecting our behavior. With this awareness, change is possible.
Also, being led through a yoga class allows our take-charge pre-frontal cortex to chill out so it can fully focus on the present and body postures.
Finally, simply standing on one foot causes millions of neurons to fire off. Far more effective than crossword puzzles or Sudoku, this complex interaction of brain and body part is brings mindful attention to parasympathetic healing.
Plus it’s never too late to benefit from yoga classes. Science has proven that regardless of age, the brain continues to be molded by new experience. We all have the power to rewrite our own neural story, our own immune story, our own health story, and reclaim the natural flexibility of our body and mind.
Two Ways to Connect to Our Yoga Classes and Teachers
Starting today, both yoga studios are offering in-studio classes limited to ten students per class. Yoga students must register on-line. The yoga classes will not involve contact of any kind, including adjustments in postures. You must bring your own mat, blocks and blankets. No studio props will be used. If you are experiencing fever, malaise, cough, shortness of breath, or have been exposed to others whom are COVID+ or have symptoms, we ask you please refrain from attending.
Additional private yoga classes may soon be available for small groups. We are excited to have you back!
Nāmāsté
Laura Tyree is owner of Dragonfly Yoga Studies and Hot Yoga Om. Both yoga studios are located at 184 Brooks St. SE, Building 2, Fort Walton Beach, FL.
by HYAMT | Mar 12, 2020 | Far Infrared Hot Yoga
A new month, a new season, a new beginning in your life. This month, we welcome spring with open arms at the Hot Yoga Om studio! There’s no better time than now to evoke a new sense of renewal and rejuvenation into our lives. Embrace the warm sunshine and temps as well as the radiant heat inside our hot yoga studio that will help you detoxify and shed the winter blues away. The heating splendor from our hot yoga classes feels clean, soothing and invigorating – the perfect way to celebrate a new season.
There are also never-ending health benefits of our hot yoga classes using safe and hypo-allergenic heating panels. Our Far-Infrared panels safely heat people, not the air, to offer a safe, clean, quiet, heated environment that can improve your flexibility, circulation, detoxification, stress levels and more. Relax in knowing that you can practice yoga and find an inner peace in a non-allergenic, safe environment. Radiant Heat = Radiant Life!
 
Hypo-Allergenic Hot Yoga Classes
Our far-infrared heating panels make our yoga classes hypo-allergenic and safe. The radiant heating panels at the Hot Yoga Om Studio do not push heated air through a room; therefore, you enjoy a quiet environment with no circulation of germs and airborne disease. The heating panels use a dry, sauna-like heat that resembles the heat from the sun, minus the ultraviolet rays. Hot Yoga Om panels provide safe, non-allergenic heat without any noise, dust, air movements or temperature fluctuations.
The health benefits of far-infrared heat to our bodies is astounding. Studies show that our body defense mechanisms are strengthened for enhanced function of the immune system. You will also experience increased detoxification as toxins are excreted with sweat. In addition, hot yoga classes and infrared heat reduces stress, offers a better night’s sleep, alleviates pain, improves heart health and more.
Learn more about our healing, far-infrared heating panels for our hot yoga classes here.
Hot Yoga Class Specials for March 2020
Wanting to try hot yoga for the first time or looking to reboot your spring fitness plan after a dreary winter season? Whether you are new to hot yoga or our studio, we have a great special for new students to Hot Yoga Om. New students can purchase a two-week, unlimited hot yoga classes package for $20. This is a perfect opportunity to experience for yourself the healing magic of our hot yoga classes and the oh-mazing teachers that will lead you through your practice. Our hot yoga studio is centrally located in downtown Fort Walton Beach.
We’re also spreading the love to our current yogis. Current students to our hot yoga student can enjoy their choice of two different hot yoga class specials; either a 10 yoga class package for $75 or a two-month unlimited yoga class package for $155.
All hot yoga class packages for March can be conveniently purchased online.
Also, make sure to reserve your class spot ahead of time online to beat the crowds and ensure a spot is ready for you. View our hot yoga class schedule here and reserve your class today.
Inspirations by Laura Tyree
“This sanctuary is not a place.
It is alive.
It breathes with you.
It waits for you.
It comforts you.
It’s not walls.
and doors.
and mat space.
It is electric and vital and it longs to
transform you.
She is an infinite, healting
Sanctuary of Life.
~ ltyree”
by HYAMT | Feb 28, 2020 | Hot Yoga News
News to Warm You Up from the Hot Yoga Om Studio
Hot New Yoga Classes and Great Instructors
Hot Yoga Om is excited to add to its already impressive list of oh-amazing yoga teachers. We are so honored to welcome Rich Pascalli as a yoga instructor to Hot Yoga Om. Rich began his hot yoga practice in 2015 as a way to get healthier and deal with the daily stresses of life. He immediately felt the positive benefits of hot yoga as he felt more productive, focused and energized. Rich met Laura Tyree in 2017, who introduced him to the Dragonfly Yoga Teacher Training program. He graduated in 2018 and is now passing his passion on to his students.
Join Rich on Saturdays from 8 – 9:30 am for Hot26, an exciting hot yoga class to kick off your weekends. In a room that is heated 101-107°, Hot 26 is a “Vinyasa Flow Yoga” class with a dynamic sequence of poses that smoothly run together. Rich will lead you in this energizing type of practice that involves synchronizing the breath with a continuous flow of postures.
Experience many different types of yoga, including Ashtanga and Power Yoga. The flowing sequences through Sun Salutations bring heat and circulation to the the inner body aiding in detoxification, purification, toning, alignment and balance while working every muscle, ligament, tendon, organ, gland, cell, and joint inside the body.
Advanced registration is suggested for all the hot yoga classes to ensure your spot is saved. Register online for all our hot yoga classes here.
Yoga Teacher Training News
Did you know that our sister yoga studio, Dragonfly Yoga Studio, is offering two exciting Yoga Teacher Training programs this year? Just like Rich, you can deepen your practice and help others with the benefits of yoga through our Yoga Teacher Training programs.
For beginners, Dragonfly Yoga Studies offers the Register Yoga Teacher (RYT) 200 Hour Certification program that meets one weekend a month beginning in February. Led by Laura Tyree, students will be immersed in the study, practice and lifestyle of yoga. After the 10 month yoga teacher training program, you will receive your 200 hour RYT certification to teach, but it is not required.
For experienced yoga teachers who already have their RYT 200 hour certification, you are invited to join Dragonfly Yoga Studies for a new 300 hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training program. Get more information on AYTT 300hr here.
Inner Reflections by Laura Tyree
Laura Tyree is the owner and inspiration behind both Dragonfly Yoga Studies and Hot Yoga Om.
“Today I feel like it is enough
for my mind to relax,
my heart to be present,
my body to be vital,
and Freedom to rein in my soul.”
– Laura Tyree.
by HYAMT | Aug 13, 2019 | Hot Yoga Class Specials
August Hot Yoga Class Specials
Looking for hot yoga class specials and packages for our studio? We have some Oh-amazing hot yoga class specials and packages at the Hot Yoga Om Studio in downtown Fort Walton Beach, Fl. Whether you are a loyal yogi to our studio or a new student, we have hot yoga class specials and packages tailored just for you. August is the perfect month to improve flexibility, strength, and balance at any of our hot yoga classes that are great for all fitness levels.
Hot Yoga Class Specials for New and Existing Students
New and existing hot yoga students can enjoy affordable, flexible yoga class rates for August 2019. New students can purchase a 10 yoga class package for $75. There are many beginner, non-intimidating hot yoga classes for new students to our hot yoga studio. Experience the difference with our far infrared, uv-free heating panels that give you a hypoallergenic, purifying practice unlike any other.
Our current yogis can enjoy great August hot yoga class specials as well. Existing students can purchase an unlimited yoga class package for one month for $85, that’s a $35 savings. Come as often as you want with your unlimited month yoga class package so you can enjoy all the different classes and instructors that make the Hot Yoga Studio so unique and oh-mazing.
Click here to purchase class specials and packages from the Hot Yoga Om studio.
Exciting Hot Yoga Class Changes
Check out the new times and classes offered at the Hot Yoga Om Studio. Join us Mondays at 5:30 pm with Paris for HOT Vinyasa. With the room heated to temps of 101-105°, this practice brings vital balance and helps restore systems to optimal health. You can also join us for other HOT Vinyasa classes on Wednesdays at 7 pm with Morea, Thursdays at 5:30 pm with Morea or Fridays at 5 pm with Jen.
We’re so excited to offer a new hot yoga class style on Wednesdays at 5:30 pm with Ann. Join us for Hot 26 Fusion with temps of 101-105°. Experience an energizing hot yoga practice with a sequence of 26 postures & 2 breathing exercises practiced in a heated room.
Our Saturday Radical Flow hot yoga classes have a new time at 10 am. Be ready to do some fun balance poses, inversions, and ab work as you move, sweat and challenge your body. The perfect way to jump start your weekend.
Click here to sign up for a hot yoga class – remember that classes fill up, so advance registration is recommended to save your spot.
Om-azing Yoga Workshops
We are more than just a hot yoga studio – we have so many different ways to enhance your practice and mindset. Our sister studio, Dragonfly Yoga Studies in downtown Fort Walton Beach, has a fall line-up of yoga workshops that everyone is invited to.
The fun begins with our Doug Keller Weekend Immersion for Yoga Teachers from September 6-8. Doug Keller is one of the most exceptional yoga teachers of our time. Space is limited to 24 people and is a perfect opportunity for yoga teacher training. Qualifications include 100 hours of teaching experience, 200YA – 500YA yoga certification and full participation. Click here for more info and tickets: https://dragonflyyoga.com/workshops/.
This Fall will mark the 23rd year of yoga, laughter, fabulous food, relaxation and nature! Come practice, rest and rejuvenate at the Gray Bear Yoga Retreat in the western hills of Tennessee with Laura Tyree and Diann. Restoration is the focus with optional yoga. Silent walks in the forest, murmured conversations on the rustic front porch, a beautiful moon to celebrate, and the fullness of a yoga posture all combine to create a memorable retreat. Many who have been a part of this weekend say they leave with a new sense of self-appreciation and a feeling of true community. Click here for more info and tickets: https://dragonflyyoga.com/workshops/.
Have an oh-mazing August – we hope to see you soon!
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