Every business has grown from a story - the HYS brand is no different.
As a business owner already, I’ve spent years climbing up on roofs installing and maintaining solar panels. Clambering up and down ladders, bending and lifting did my back no favours and I found that I was in excruciating pain. Nothing conventional seemed to relieve the constant niggle in my back and it started to impact my lifestyle.
About seven years ago, I tried my very first hot yoga class at Bikram Yoga North Brisbane in an attempt to try and help my back. It was a whole new experience and one thing that struck me, was the huge variety of people in my class. From the young and super fit, to the older and those trying to alleviate pain, there was a place for everyone on the mat at hot yoga.
Quite quickly I was hooked - I started to notice that I had less pain in my back and could move easier, became more flexible and had more energy. The heat in the room helps the soft tissue in the body to become more relaxed and I was starting to feel more like my old self. One challenge I did encounter however, was that even placing a towel over my yoga mat, I was slipping and sliding around due to the heat and sweat. I noticed others were having the same challenges - it was harder without a mat which would absorb the sweat, and stop you from slipping. I realized that I was less stable without a mat which firmly gripped the ground and had nothing to support my legs and feet in holding yoga poses. I was unable to find a mat that met my needs.
That was my lightbulb moment.
To design and create a mat which would address all of the challenges I was facing and be able to share this mat with the awesome yogis I’d met along my hot yoga journey. Hot Yoga Solutions was born, with the goal of making yoga easier and safer for yoga communities all over the globe. We’re at the start of our journey but are excited with where our story will land, and how many people we can positively impact along the way.
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Steve