Calgary Hot Yoga

Calgary Hot Yoga owner and instructor Craig Esau was no fan of yoga until friends dragged him to his first hot yoga class. “Now it’s like a second home,” says Esau of his own yoga studio. Opened in 2001 under a different owner, it was the first hot yoga facility in Calgary and the first Canadian hot yoga studio outside Toronto. Today, it is one of about 10 Calgary businesses featuring yoga classes in rooms heated to 40 degrees Celsius and juiced up with 40 per cent humidity. The dual purpose of this is both to duplicate the atmosphere of a yoga studio in India — the birthplace of yoga — and to increase the flexibility of participants.