We know that HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning) might seem like a boring technical thing that happens to the innards of your home or office to guarantee your house stays warm or cold depending upon the season. Definitely not sexy, and something to deal with only on occasion when it goes wonky.

But we’ve come to understand that HVAC, true Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning, is one of the most vital elements of your workout and is actually super sexy!

True HVAC provides not only the amazing heat at HYR, but also is essential to your health, oxygen uptake and cardiovascular system’s overall function. (Which of course ties into your brain and heart health.)

So here’s a quick AP HVAC lesson and what makes HYR’s HVAC truly sexy, and why HVAC is so completely critical to your workout environment.

Here’s the history of how hot yoga studios get hot…

For many years, many hot yoga studios simply affixed superficial heaters to the ceiling or walls of the yoga studio, or placed space heaters around the perimeter of the room, those metal box thingy’s that smell funky and that heat the air already within a room.

Another option that is popular right now is placing radiant heaters on the ceiling to heat clients from the inside out. Seal up the room to keep the heat in and, Bob’s Your Uncle, the class is hot and people sweat.

There’s no shame in this game, it’s just the most cost-effective way to get a room hot based on the criteria of temperature alone.

The dilemma with the above scenarios however, is that these are not true HVAC systems, that is to say, there is no ventilation…there is no CFM, which is critical to YOUR health.

CFM, or cubic-feet-per-minute, is an important measurement of the volume of air moving through a space in a minute.

So without robust CFM, you dear friend, are working out in a sealed-up room, with other attendees breathing each other’s expelled carbon dioxide, during rigorous physical activity.

Ew.

For more than a decade, HYR Co-founder Jessica Smith studied the HVAC system of not only yoga studios, but any business she came across. From saunas and steam rooms, to hospitals, to the homes she flipped. Working with a team of mechanical engineers from some of the most prestigious HVAC companies in California (whose other clients include stadiums and hospitals), Jessica envisioned a now patent-pending HVAC system for Hot Yoga Republic that is like no other hot yoga studio’s HVAC system in the country.

Here’s the HYR HVAC difference:

• When you step into HYR’s studio you can feel a velvet tidal wave of quiet, heated, humidified air flood into the length of the right side of the room.

• This air is pulled in from the outside through massive tubes. It is then heated to high temperatures and infused with sanitized steam humidity.

• That heated, sanitized, humidified fresh air is then gently pulled across the HYR studio and vacuumed out through 10 vents on the opposite side of the studio.

• Meanwhile, fresh air is continuously being pulled in, repeating this process over and over and over, so you are never breathing other members expelled carbon dioxide for any measurable period of time.

• At approximately 3-5 minutes after class, you’ll hear our powerful fans kick on and evacuate the room completely, so that the room is totally fresh and clean ready for the next class, when the process begins all over again.

This computerized process repeats every single HYR class, 365 days a year.

Is this process complex and and does it require extensive (aka expensive) monthly service from a team of techs to keep it running smoothly?

Yes.

But we think your health is worth it.