Hot yoga Asheville NC blog cover photo, which shows two popular hot yoga studios in the city

Asheville NC is the perfect destination for healing, with all of its natural beauty, art and great options for wellness experiences and fitness including hot yoga. I’ve put together a list of all of the options for hot yoga Asheville NC below made for both travelers and locals wanting a regular practice. Using this list is the the easiest way to find the best studio for you. Enjoy!

Quick Summary of Hot Yoga Asheville NC

There is an abundance of great hot yoga studios in Asheville NC, so you can’t really go wrong when choosing a studio.

If you’re relatively new to yoga, Asheville Yoga Center or Asheville Community Yoga is your best bet, as both are dedicated to teaching the practice of yoga. Hot Yoga Asheville is another great option, which is a Bikram Yoga studio offering a standard vinyasa practice.

Other options for hot yoga Asheville NC include YogaSix, which offers faster paced, great yoga classes that are designed to stimulate your senses, and the new and smaller Foundry at Yoga studio. HOTWORX is a unique gym that allows you to practice hot yoga in small saunas that fit up to 3 people at a time. Finally, West Asheville Yoga is the best option for beginners and non-heated yoga classes

Where to Practice Bikram Yoga Asheville NC : Find the Studio That Is Best For You

Here’s a breakdown of each of the hot yoga options in Asheville, so you can find the studio that is best for you, or maybe decide to try them all!

  1. Hot Yoga Asheville NC
    1. Hot Yoga Asheville
    2. Asheville Community Yoga
    3. Asheville Yoga Center
    4. YogaSix Asheville
    5. HOTWORX Asheville
  2. Best Alternatives For Hot Yoga Asheville
    1. West Asheville Yoga
  3. Hot Yoga Asheville Map

Hot Yoga Asheville NC Studio

The Hot Yoga Asheville NC studio is a the best place for bikram yoga in Asheville. Built for hot yoga, hence the name, this studio has a variety of styles of hot yoga classes heated up to 105 degrees including both Hot 26, which is their bikram practice, and their new Inferno Core classes.

One cool option they have is their Sonic class, which includes fun music and color lights.

Hot yoga Asheville NC studio class and front desk
Class and welcome space at Hot Yoga Asheville

The best part about the Hot Yoga Asheville NC studio is that they use an infrared heat system, similar to how the sun feels, which helps your body heal and feels way more comfortable than other types of heating. I can attest to this, infrared heat is the best!

Asheville Community Yoga : Best Studio For Hot Yoga Asheville NC

Asheville Community Yoga is a special place. They are a non-profit, donation based yoga studio, offering yoga to the community at a sliding scale. This makes Asheville Community Yoga the best yoga studio in Asheville for those that are struggling to pay for their yoga practice.

What this means is that anyone who can’t afford it can still attend, with the hope that others who can pay more will compensate naturally. They have hot classes 95-105 degrees and also warm classes at 90 degrees, and the practice spaces are huge.

Asheville Community Yoga, which is a non-profit offering sliding scale yoga and meditation classes to the public
Hot yoga Asheville NC class about to start at the Community Yoga studio

It also feels very much like a community, and I was shocked at how many people were there on a week day night class! I found it super uplifting, but if you like classes that aren’t that crowded you probably won’t like Asheville Community Yoga.

Lastly, Asheville Community Yoga has a used clothing shop where people can buy clothes at a price they choose, and they offer sliding scale acupuncture monthly as well. Donate to Asheville Community Yoga to support the use of yoga in healing for Asheville residents who can’t afford it.

Asheville Yoga Center

Asheville Yoga Center is a staple in the Asheville community, which offers a variety of hot yoga classes including both warm classes heated to 80-89 degrees, and hot classes to 90 degrees and above, similar to Asheville Community Yoga. The warm classes are great for beginners who may not be ready for a hot class yet!

Hot yoga Asheville Yoga Center class with students raising arms
Asheville Yoga Center studio entrance and storefront

Asheville Yoga Center is more than just a yoga studio. The community at Asheville Yoga Center has the intention to provide an encouraging space to practice, and learn the power of the mind body connection.

They believe “it’s possible to foster fun, humor, and play with focus, dedication, and depth simultaneously” because “being human can be hard at times, and we want to share yoga as a way to move through life’s joys and challenges with greater presence, compassion, and grace.” Love this!!

YogaSix Asheville

YogaSix is another great option for hot yoga Asheville NC.

This boutique yoga studio offers a variety of hot power flow yoga classes, including a signature Y6 Hot class, each of which are designed to produce specific benefits in the body and either warm or hot.

YogaSix hot yoga studio in Asheville NC
Dimly lit room with blue lights at YogaSix offering a cool atmosphere for your yoga class

YogaSix is all about providing an experience that stimulates all of the senses through an energetic practice, which will ground you to the earth and connect you to your body.

HOTWORX Asheville

HOTWORX Asheville isn’t your typical yoga studio, but you can do hot yoga here along with lots of other hot fitness classes.

Instead of instructor-led classes, inside the HOTWORX studio space there are several 3-person infrared heat saunas, where you will complete short (15 or 30 minute) virtually instructed fitness classes including but not limited to hot yoga. Here are some photos of the yoga rooms / heated rooms below.

Hotworx Asheville hot yoga studio. Multiple photos showing the concept of a few people doing yoga inside an infrared sauna.

The idea is that because you’re completing your workout inside a sauna, your body is working harder, so you can workout for shorter periods of time while burning the same amount of calories. So this is THE place to practice hot yoga for anyone who is very busy, which is basically everyone.

Hotworx members can enjoy these classes any time they want!

Best Alternatives For Hot Yoga Asheville NC

While there are plenty options for hot yoga Asheville NC, not everyone is going to want to hop straight into a hot yoga class before trying out a few non-heated classes first. If you aren’t experienced with yoga I recommend starting with a few non-heated classes, to make sure you’ll be able to handle the heat.

Asheville Yoga Center and Asheville Community Yoga both have non-heated classes, which are the best choice for beginners since the instructors are great teachers and will lead you on your yoga journey.

West Asheville Yoga

Another great option for non-heated yoga classes in Asheville is West Asheville Yoga, which is a small boutique studio that gets glowing reviews.

Non heated yoga class at West Asheville Yoga studio

This studio supports the local community by providing a sliding scale pricing model, similar to Asheville Community Yoga, and a variety of classes from vinyasa to yin.

Hot Yoga Asheville Map

If you’re in the Asheville area, I highly recommend finding the Crow and Quill and/or Pink Moon Asheville speakeasies to reward yourself for your workout. These are two of my favorite cocktail bars ever. Enjoy Asheville!

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Lauren Kessel is the author of this blog post and the creator of the Inspired Backpacker travel blog. She is a passionate digital nomad, with the mission to make slow travel a more accessible way of life for everyone. Lauren believes travel is an important means of education and more importantly, a way for people of different cultures to come together and understand each other better. She has a BS in Tourism and has planned countless domestic and international trips for herself, her family and friends, having visited over 12 countries and 30 states so far.