Power of Your Om Yoga Santa Barbara | Hot Yoga - All Levels Yoga ...

All Vinyasa Yoga classes are taught in our infrared heated studio (heated 90-100°) with passionate teachers who love guiding each student through their own journey of power and discovery. Our Santa Barbara Yoga Studio is located in beautiful downtown Santa Barbara, CA in Victoria Court.
All other classes are either not heated or led in a warm (not hot) environment.
VIsion: what we see for the future
We envision a world where all people explore the body’s physical and emotional needs
causing expansion within the self and a collective evolution with others.
mission: HOW WE lay the bricks each day to get there
Power of Your Om provides inviting and inclusive yoga programs where people can courageously, joyfully and safely explore their physical body and emotional states to expand their awareness into their daily lives.
values: The beliefs that help us find our way & fill us with purpose.
Courage
Choosing what is right over what is fun, fast or easy and a willingness and strength to do things that frighten us. It’s doing what we say we are going to do no matter what. It’s speaking, living, and loving truthfully. It’s making eye contact when you want to look down or away. It’s staying a moment longer when you want to run away and quit.
Joy
A positive attitude that comes from feeling and being connected to yourself. It’s being simultaneously vulnerable and trusting even if you are emotionally uncomfortable. It’s the embodiment and practice of gratitude in a moment. It’s smiles, tears, dancing, sunrises, a hand to hold, and a safe place to land.
WHY INFRARED HEATED YOGA?
While there are many styles of yoga, each discipline contributes to your overall health and well-being by calming your mind and strengthening your body. Whether you are new to yoga or a dedicated enthusiast, you may be quite intrigued to learn of the many surprising health and wellness benefits of infrared hot yoga.
The environment is tolerable and breathable which allows you to get the benefits of the heat without feeling like you are in a swamp.
The Benefits of Yoga Enhanced by the Benefits of Infrared Energy.
The Journal of the American College of Cardiology and the Mayo Clinic report that infrared therapy improves the functioning of blood vessels, reduces cholesterol, increases circulation and lowers blood sugar levels. Some of the additional health benefits of infrared hot yoga include:
Improved Immune System Function
Infrared rays are known to boost the immune system by increasing the number of white blood cells and T cells. This improved immune system function promotes healing throughout your body, reduces muscle tension, soreness and muscle spasms. Raising your body temperature also creates a sort of artificial fever, which is also a benefit to your immune system.
A Multitude of Skin Benefits
Skin problems can be eliminated with hot yoga due to the ability of hot yoga to increase blood flow and oxygenation to your skin. The improved circulation is due to the expansion of your capillaries. Infrared energy is also shown to Improve collagen production and skin elasticity, reduce the appearance of fine lines, reduce or prevent wrinkles, and minimize acne scars.
May Help Detoxify Your Body
Infrared yoga can help detoxify your body by increasing how much you sweat during your workout, potentially clearing heavy metals, toxins, and carcinogens from your body. Detoxification could be beneficial to those living with chronic fatigue or skin disorders. Infrared hot yoga also amplifies the amount of fat you will eliminate with exercise and eliminates retained fluids.
Accelerates Your Weight Loss Efforts
Infrared boosts the enzymatic activity in your digestive tract and boosts your metabolism. Just one hour of infrared hot yoga can burn up to 900 calories, break down trapped fat, cellulite, and cellular waste. One thirty minute infrared hot yoga session is equivalent to sweating the distance of a two to three-mile run.
Reduces Pain and Inflammation
The infrared light and heat penetrate deeply to soothe pain, inflammation, and ease muscle soreness. Infrared heat penetrates your body, improving your circulation, enhancing oxygenation and relaxing your muscles. This has proven beneficial for yoga enthusiasts who rely on their discipline to help alleviate the symptoms of chronic pain conditions, such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and fibromyalgia.
Increases Muscle Flexibility and Accelerates Strength Building
Your body moves better when your muscles are warm. You will find your muscles more limber; you may also find that you require less time to warm up. While your muscles will move easier, more freely with infrared hot yoga, it is still recommended not to push yourself too hard, at least not at first. Your tendons and ligaments are not as vascular as your muscles. While your muscles may stretch more deeply, your tendons and ligaments may not be ready; you need to gauge your efforts mindfully to reduce your risk of a pull or strain.
The Additional Benefits of Infrared Hot Yoga
Heat can make yoga more challenging. You will notice that hot yoga increases your heart rate. Even if you are used to pushing yourself in other yoga classes, during hot yoga, your body will typically need time to adjust to the temperature changes in your environment. Taking some time to adapt will be worth your efforts. Some of the other potential benefits of infrared energy include:
Increasing the flow of lymph fluids
Providing long-lasting pain relieve
Lowering blood pressure
Improving allergy symptoms
Speeding injury recovery
Benefits of heat without the humidity
Will not harm your eyes
Getting Started with Infrared Hot Yoga
It is important to remind yourself that yoga is not a competitive sport, rather a personal experience. While yoga poses can be adapted for anyone who is limited by illness or injury, hot yoga may not be ideal for everyone. If you have a medical condition, it is best to consult with your healthcare provider before engaging in any new fitness program. If you choose to experience the benefits of infrared hot yoga, here are a few suggestions to help you ease into the experience:
Allow for enough time to let your body to adapt to the heat. Arriving to class 10 minutes early will give you an opportunity to adjust to the temperature. This may be particularly important for your first few classes.
Dress lightly and consider a headband to keep your hair off of your face. Ladies may want to consider a sports bra and shorts; men may want to plan to wear a t-shirt and shorts, or possibly just shorts. Dress for comfort and to minimize the heat heavy clothing will trap to your body.
Drink plenty of fluids before, during, and after your yoga session. You may want to consider enhancing your water with an electrolyte solution or a pinch of salt to keep your fluids balanced.
Avoid an overly full or empty belly. Eat two to four hours before class. Try not to eat in the hour before class unless you keep it light. Exercise in the heat may cause you to feel nauseated.
Pace It's important not to overexert, so you will need to pay attention to your body. Rest if you need to and stay alert to the signs that you may have reached your level of heat tolerance.
Yoga will calm your overloaded mind and strengthen your body. The benefits of yoga can be enhanced with the benefits of infrared energy. Infrared hot yoga is therapeutic, safe and comfortable. Discover how yoga can have a positive impact on your health and wellbeing.
I can’t imagine my life without POYO, these classes are ingrained in my routine and essential for my health and wellbeing. I truly look forward to sweating and resetting after a long, tedious day, or setting my day on the right trajectory by doing a morning session.
Explore |Expand | Evolve
We offer meaningful, uncomplicated yoga classes in an upbeat and welcoming atmosphere that will give you opportunities to explore, expand and evolve so that you continuously have the tools to release, reset and repeatedly create a healthy mind-body connection. We specialize in heated vinyasa yoga classes where the room is heated with infrared heat 90-100°. All classes are open to beginners - if you are reading these words, you are ready. It’s time to start!