Why Hot Yoga?
Therapeutic Far-Infrared Heat
Our studio uses far-infrared heat, a therapeutic warming technology that heats the body from the cellular level outward. Instead of just blasting hot air, far-infrared waves gently penetrate muscles and tissues, helping your body open, release, and ease into each posture. This creates a safer, more comfortable, and deeply restorative hot yoga experience.
Hatha Yoga: Sun + Moon Balance
“Hatha” comes from the Sanskrit Ha (sun) and Tha (moon), representing energetic balance within the body. Our classes blend activation (poses) with release (rest and savasana), including moments of intentional stillness that slow blood flow to targeted areas before refreshing them with renewed circulation. This rhythm of effort and ease supports nervous system regulation and deep internal harmony.
Maine’s Original Hot Yoga Studio
We opened our doors in 2002 as Maine’s first Hot Yoga studio. For more than 20 years, we’ve stayed committed to what works: tradition, consistency, and results. We don’t follow trends—we honor the lineage of Hatha Yoga and offer a practice that strengthens the body, focuses the mind, and transforms lives with the humility to meet everyone where they are at.
Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.
Angela Weymouth, founder and owner
A Maine native and lifelong seeker of consciousness, Angela Weymouth has spent decades transforming fear and hardship into pathways for growth, healing, and evolution. Her own early struggles led her to yoga and spiritual exploration in her twenties, and from that practice she found the strength to transform her life.
At 28, driven by a vision much larger than herself, Angela opened Maine Hatha Yoga in South Portland — Maine’s original hot yoga studio — where for more than 23 years she has guided students through therapeutic, deeply healing practices.
Over time, Angela saw firsthand how yoga can do more than build flexibility or strength — it can help people reclaim their lives. As one profile puts it, many students said this practice “pretty much saved their lives” as they worked to recover from severe addiction and trauma.
Believing in yoga’s power to heal body and spirit, Angela blends far-infrared heat, traditional Hatha sequencing, and mindful breath work to create a practice of balance, release, and renewal. Her teachings don’t chase trends — they follow tradition, results, and heart. Even while facing her own health challenges in recent years, Angela remained committed to healing. In a moment of intuition, she incorporated Circular Breathing, deepening her practice of transformation and offering new tools for restoring balance, clarity, and hope.
Angela’s work — and the impact of Maine Hatha Yoga — has resonated beyond the studio walls, contributing to conversations on yoga’s meaningful role in recovery, healing, and lifelong change.