Winter has a tendency to keep us indoors below many layers of clothes and blankets. It also has a tendency to keep us away from exercise. In an attempt to keep warm and fit at the same time, we’ve been exploring Melbourne’s hot yoga studios. Here are some of our favourites. Trust us, you won’t be cold.
Tucked into the back streets of South Yarra, One Hot Yoga is one of the most beautifully sleek studios around. With one studio for Pilates and another next-door boasting two yoga studios, you can pick your class and your heat. Mat Pilates sits at 27 degrees, reformer at 21, while power flows and yin yoga are a comfortable 27 degrees and slow flows are a very warm 37 degrees. It’s a warm stunning oasis designed by Melbourne architect Rob Mills.
36-48 River Street, South Yarra
Power Living is the home for serious hot yoga in Melbourne. And we don’t mean serious in a stuffy annoying way, we mean serious in an epic workout backed up by tradition, kind of way. Found in both Fitzroy and South Melbourne, these airy, warehouse style studios will let you grow your practice while sweating it out on the mat. The teachers are experienced and all offer a really unique spin on the classes.
Level 1, 260 Nicholson St, Fitzroy &
4 Union St, South Melbourne
Found on the second level of Bridge Road in Richmond, Rise Yoga is a holistic space for health, wellbeing, and of course yoga. Along with their yoga timetable they offer running clubs, physiotherapy, and yoga focused towards aiding athletes in recovery and strength building. Rise is heated using FIR sustainable overhead heating. With chocolate and chats shared after classes, it’s more than a studio, it’s a community.
Level 1, 232 Bridge Road, Richmond
You’d think that having a yoga studio in the same building as a nightclub would be weird. In the case of Hot Box Yoga, it’s quite the opposite. As you head up the stairs and walk through the studio door, everything else falls away. The expansive studio is framed with windows and mirrors and all things white. It’s the perfect space to block out the rest of the world. Heated with FIR heating, the studio offers detoxification and recovering while you sweat.
105B Chapel Street, Windsor
One of the most beautiful buildings in the business, Happy Melon feels more like a home you’ve always wished was yours than a yoga studio. But it’s not just a yoga studio. This space, which focuses on mindfulness and happiness, offers yoga, meditation, Pilates, and general fitness classes.
1252 High St, Armadale
When you find the door to this studio in the back streets of South Yarra, you don’t expect the expansive space that lies within. As you make your way up the polished stairs, you’ll be greeted with a wall of affirmations and love from teachers and students and a beautiful lounge with couches, tea, coconut water, and teachers to chat with. The studio, which is injected with a unique vibration to help deepen your practice, is huge. With numbered mats perfectly lined up with props ready for you, space is something that is never lacking. The classes focus on mindful movement, chanting, and traditional yoga practice.
2/22 Cecil Place, Prahran
Move Yoga is located in the CBD, offering office workers a sanctuary away from the busy, loud, and dark city streets. The space is filled with white walls, windows, stunning hanging lights, and soft wooden details. Move offers a range of classes for all levels. They even label the classes from a 1-3 so people know more about what they’re signing up for. The teachers at Move are known across the yoga scene, so you’ll be in very safe hands.
1/335 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
