Hot Yoga Sutra West Philly

Hot Yoga Sutra bingo is back! ❤️🌹 Here’s your chance to win a free guest pass:

🍓Pick up your card at the studio.
✍️ Have an instructor sign each square as you complete each challenge.
✅ All 8 challenges must be complete by 5/31.

Your completed bingo card serves as your guest pass and expires on 12/31/26. Happy Bingo 🔴🐶

Hot Yoga Sutra is looking for a social media intern/assistant to help create reels for our social media! For 4 reels a month, you can have a free monthly membership. 🔥 This is a great opportunity if you’re looking for hands-on content creation experience and to be a part of an inclusive community. Course credit and professional references available upon completion of a 3 month commitment. Email [email protected] with your resume and samples of your work to apply. 💙🦋

In the spirit of Spring cleaning, we’re having a clothing swap at the studio this Sunday 4/12 from 1:30 - 3:30 PM. Stop by, bring lightly used clothing and leave with a wardrobe refresh, whether it’s from downsizing or finding something new. All leftover items, including unclaimed from the lost and found will be donated. 👗👚👕

Looking to “get into running”? 🏃‍♂️ Want a chance to get to know your fellow studio mates? 💗 Or maybe you want to kickoff your weekends with an endorphin boost? ⚡️

If you answered yes to any of these questions, come check out Hot Yoga Sutra Run Club! 👟☁️ Join Liem and co for light stretching and morning miles before the 10 AM Saturday Pilates class. See flyer for details and join the Run Club WhatsApp chat for weekly updates 🔗 💜

🚨New class time alert 🚨 Join Angela and Liem on Mondays at 12 PM Noon for 45 minutes of Hot Pilates-Core Strength starting April 6! 🔥💪

This past Sunday, Romana and sound alchemist Kassamira Carter-Howard joined forces and hosted a sound healing and reiki workshop for International Women’s Day. 💜💐 Swipe for some photos and footage from a magical, healing workshop. ✨

Missed the workshop? Don’t fret - there will be more to come! 🙏

You are invited to join us on International Women’s Day (Sunday 3/8) at 2:30 PM for a sound bath and reiki workshop hosted by our very own and sound alchemist Kassandra Carter-Howard. Learn about and experience reiki as a way to clear and align your energy centers, and activate your own natural healing capacity. 💜

All you need is your yoga mat and self. 🧘‍♀️ Sound bath and reiki will follow a brief yoga sequence. Mats also are available for rent. You can register at the link in our bio! 🔗

Join us next Sunday, Feb. 15 at 8 PM to celebrate the fourth birthday of Hot Yoga Sutra! Featuring music from , karaoke, and groovy vibes only. 🪩🌈 🍄🎶 RSVP at the link in bio 🔗

The man who made Bikram, Bikram, was his beloved and respected Guru, Sri Bishnu Charan Ghosh. Bikram does not get tired of mentioning his Guru when he is explaining something. He says I’m only forwarding his message. From the way he talks about his Guru one can feel the love and respect Bikram had for his teacher. Bikram says, “My Guru saved my life.”

"In the early 1930's, Yogananda and his youngest brother, Bishnu Ghosh, traveled together throughout the United States giving lectures and demonstrations of physical culture including bodybuilding and Hatha Yoga. At Yogananda's request my guru also started teaching Hatha Yoga at the Self-Realization fellowship. Ghosh inspired both children and adults to strengthen their bodies and minds. My guru also originated bodybuilding contests in America, founding the Mr. Universe contest and acting as it's chief judge in 1948. He was an Olympic judge, a member of the International Olympic Committee, and founder of the International Weightlifting and Body Building Federation. He also became a visiting professor at Columbia University, though he continued to return to India often in order to train yogis at his own school, Ghosh's College of Physical Education, in Calcutta."

Bikram Choudhury.
Book: Bikram Yoga (the orange book)
page 63

Bikram says his Guru, Bishnu Ghosh saved his life by saving his knee. Bikram had weights fall on his knee in a contest which destroyed his knee. His guru rehabilitated and reconstructed his knee back to new with the healing practice of Hatha Yoga postures and breathing techniques. Whatever we have learned from Bikram, he says, they are all teachings of my guru.

Thank You Guru Ji for teaching Bikram who did a miraculous job in spreading your word and your work to the whole world. Humans of Bikram Yoga all over the world are grateful to you for your contributions in the way we are using yoga as a self-care tool today.

Thank you Bikram for teaching us your Guru’s way, the right way and the hard way. We will keep on keeping on.

Namaskaram 🙏🏽❤️✨