115 degrees

Yes Amy is right – the heat gradient varies enormously so unless it’s a professional calibration, I wouldn’t put too much emphasis on the actual number – unless you believe it feels excessively high (which 116-116 certainly is IF the humidity is high).

The main thing to be tracking in a studio is “the heat index” which is essentially a combination of real temperature and humidity.

Check out Gabrielle’s long post and info about it here:

https://www.hotyogadoctor.com/index.php/site/forum/viewthread/37/

That should help!

Basically if you are in a well ventilated room and your humidity is under 30%, 115F can even feel cool!

By contrast, 98F when the humidity is over 85% will definitely feel hot.

So there are quite a few variables!

Hope that helps.

Of course if you feel the studio is over-heated – especially if you see a LOT of red faces during class; people taking a lot of breaks – I’d be raising that with the studio owner as it is simply unnecessary – and taken too far, can be dangerous.

Namaste

Robert

Ah yes – thanks Lee for clarifying what the thermostat is SET to and what the real temperature may be.

Many studios resort to setting the thermostat to an apparent high temperature to compensate for a variety of issues – wrong equipment; incorrectly calibrated thermostats and/or thermometers; lack of humidity calibration … it’s a long list!

One thing to watch out for – if you notice a teacher is constantly having to “adjust” a heat setting … you can be sure the system is poorly installed or calibrated. By way of a guide, we only EVER touch ours twice a year to make a slight adjustment to the temperature/humidity differences between winter and summer.

Thanks Lee!

Robert

Hi Paula

How are you coping these days with the heat etc now that the weather is warming up (for you!)?

BTW: Asking why the temp is set so high is not really accusative as much as it is inquisitive! Nothing wrong with that 😉

Namaste
Gabrielle 🙂