Getting Toasty at Mind the Mat
To celebrate its new hot yoga facility, Del Ray studio is hosting an open house on Saturday.
Things have been heating up this winter at Mind the Mat Pilates and Yoga. The Del Ray staple recently opened a third-floor studio with a state-of-the-art heating system that allows instructors to host sizzling hot yoga classes. “As soon as you walk in, you are engulfed in heat,” owner Megan Brown said of the new studio. Temperatures reach between 95 and 100 degrees for the studio’s Power Flow classes, while temps climb between 105 and 115 degrees for Hatha classes. “Heat allows the body to sweat more, which helps to release toxins,” Brown said. “It also helps to warm up muscles and connective tissues, which react better because they’re warmed up.” Brown said she had attempted to hold hot classes in the ground-floor studio in the past, but …
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Dana Damico
11:26 am on Thursday, January 31, 2013
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