Bikram Hot Yoga Long Beach

Beautiful location right off the marina. I was welcomed warmly and Liliana was a great instructor – nicely paced and helpful when necessary. The location doesn’t have a shower or huge changing rooms (same as many other Bikram studios), so plan accordingly. I’m just glad there’s a Bikram studio in Long Beach!
I’ll be back.

Great service, nice facility, tranquil workout. I definitely recommend this place. They recently remodeled the area and did a great job. I’m an avid marathoner, I’ve ran 8 so far this year and my body craves the deep heat, stretching and healing that is the Bikram Yoga method. The teachers are very welcoming and knowledgable. The location is a little difficult to find but once you do it’s like you’ve found the hidden gem of long beach.

I love this studio! I live out of state and this studio is always the highlight of my travels to LA. It’s clean and run by very kind and generous people. I always get the best workout as well as stress relief from my sessions here. Try it out!!! You will love it!

This studio is an oasis for the mind body and soul. Amazing space. Dedicated teachers. Loving community. An amazing place to feel accepted, supported and dive into your practice. You’ll love it!

I felt so at home and comfortable at this studio. The moment I walked in the door I felt welcomed and loved. It is a beautiful and sacred gem in Long Beach.

What a great experience! I came here on classpass. Staff and students all super friendly and personable. I took a fusion class and got beautifully sweaty. Teacher was funny and made jokes which I loved. I love when a class isn’t taken too seriously, because afterall yoga can be fun right? (So different from traditional bikram where is often taught in a very militant way.) Can’t wait to come back. They have a great intro deal too that I will def take advantage of. Oh also was pleasantly surprised tho find this place neatly tucked behind and otherwise busy shopping plaza. Was very quiet & zen, overlooking the water.

Check out the new flooring! Goodbye & good riddance to carpet & to bad smells! Other renovations as well, but this is the best one!

Great class tonight! A 90-​minute torture chamber held in a room heated to 105 degrees with the same series of 26 postures.
Don’t attempt hot bikram yoga without a right state of mind… Meant to exercise your mental acuity as much as your physical stamina.

What can’t I say about this place!!!
I’ll be honest I was a little hesitant about trying Bikram hot yoga but a friend of mine expressed how great it was for back injuries and stress.
So I put my feelings aside and did the introduction package. And I don’t regret it! I was welcomed by Jesse on my first day and he was super sweet and explained to me what to expect and to do the best I could since it was my first time ever doing yoga and hot yoga! It was an amazing experience and as suggested I stayed in the classroom the whole 90 minutes of hot 105 degree heat and 40% humidity! It was tough but I managed to get through it.
There are other instructors like Francisco and Rebekah that are also amazing teaching the class… I’m sure the other instructors are just as great but I haven’t had the chance to meet them… The students were also very welcoming… The vibe put me at ease!
For all newbie customers… Do your homework and go on the Bikram hot yoga long beach website. It tells you what to expect and what you should and shouldn’t eat prior to class. Like anything we have never tried it can be a little intimidating and scary, but if you allow yourself to just be there and go into that state mind you will be very successful! Day 7 for me and I can already see a difference in my yoga postures, skin and mental state of mind… Stay positive and continue in it whether you have a good day or bad day…
I hope you get the opportunity to try it out… #namaste

All you need for a solid Bikram practice is a hot room and the right mind set. This place has it. Spacious and hot yoga room, I got nice and sweaty both times I practiced there this week. Changing room and bathrooms– yes. But no lockers or showers. Make sure you give yourself enough time to find the place your first visit. But definitely pleased with this studio! Teachers dialogue is excellent and pacing /​timing is spot on!

Ok, this place may lack some of the amenities of other hot yoga studios but Rosario makes up for it with the attention and care she shows her students. I have suffered with back pain for over TEN YEARS and can honestly feel an improvement after just a few classes. Thank you Rosario. You are AMAZING!

I’ve been practicing Bikram yoga for almost 10 years. I started practicing yoga to deal with severe low back pain, bad knees and overall poor health. I practice 3 times a week and my back pain is totally under control, my knees are strong and I rarely (if ever) get sick. I’m in the best shape of my life thanks to Bikram yoga.
I have practiced at many Bikram studios throughout LA/​OC and across the US, travelling for work, but the Long Beach studio is my home studio.
If you live in the area you should feel fortunate because this studio is a traditional, old school Bikram studio. No frills. No hype. Just yoga.
The owner, the teachers and all the regular students take a lot of pride in the studio.
Too often, Unilocalers reviewing this studio get hung up on the aesthetics. If you are that hung up on looks please just stick to your 24 Hour Fitness membership where everyone looks marvelous… but I digress.
Bikram is a unique style of yoga, meant to exercise your mental acuity as much as your physical stamina. The founder of this style of yoga, Bikram Choudhury, calls it a 90-​minute torture chamber.
A famous Bikram teacher wrote in the New York Times, «Bikram yoga is a challenge for anyone. It is a 90-​minute class, practiced in a room heated to 105 degrees, with the same series of 26 postures. The postures are accessible to anyone, in any shape, but challenging for everyone, in any shape. The front mirrors force you to face the truth and the reality of your life.»
I can say from personal experience that Bikram students don’t do this yoga to feel «At-​One with the Universe», to align their chakras or enjoy the healing scents of aromatherapy. We practice this yoga to face our fears, discomfort, personal drama, anger, poor health, etc. so that we can break them down and rebuild from the ground up.
Bikram Yoga is whatever you allow it to be. If you can’t let go of your hang-​ups when you walk in the room, then your hang-​ups have their way with you when you are at your most vulnerable… just like life.
Here are a few quotes from Bikram himself to give a little insight into this unique practice of yoga: «Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years?» /​«The right way is the hard way.» /​«Cheer up, things will get worse.» /​«Give me 30 days, I’ll change your body. Give me 60 days, I’ll change your life» /​«Yoga is the perfect vehicle for change. First by creating a strong and powerful body and mind. It is a starting point from which you can begin to realize your human spirit.» — Bikram Choudhury

BIKRAM YOGA
If you know me you would know I LOVE YOGA! So when I found myself in between my membership and about to go on vacay I didn’t want to renew my membership at my regular location and then go on vacay and basically be paying for something I was NOT using since I will not be here.
To Unilocal I went in search of a YOGA studio that had a decent New Student price for at least a week and was on my way home. I stumbled upon BIKRAM YOGA and was excited! I had done BIKRAM before so I knew what it consisted of. Why NOT sweat it out in a 90 minute class.
If you don’t know what BIKRAM YOGA is, in simple terms it is HOT YOGA created by BIKRAM Choudhury who is the hot yoga innovator. BIKRAM is a set series of 26 postures, including two pranayama exercises, each performed twice in a single 90-​minute class that is heated to about 105 degrees give or take. Hot YOGA is more of a vinyasa flow type of yoga where the room is heated between 90 – 100 degrees. Each studio is slightly different but that is the basics. You will sweat just standing or sitting which is good to rid the body of toxins.
So my first day I walk in and sign up! $ 20 for a week of classes that would take me to the day before I leave for vacay. I knew to bring my mat, and yoga mat towel for all the sweating I would be doing as well as something cool to drink and I chose tea to help replace some electrolytes. I forgot a towel so I rented one for a $ 1.00. And I decided to buy a Vitamin water they had for sale for after class because I knew I would need it!
I had read on Unilocal that the studio had a smell because they have carpet but I didn’t smell anything. It was a little stuffy but it’s BIKRAM and the room was China mid-​summer HOT and humid! Gimminy Cricket it was HOT and it was a HOT FRICKIN DAY outside as well! The carpet wasn’t wet which I thought it would be so that was a GOOD thing. I was a bit worried I would get some sort of fungus from having to walk on wet, sweaty carpet to get in and out of the studio and figured I would stay on the safety of my mat for class, but I was wrong.
I set up my mat and started to relax and stretch and prepare for class. The students were NOT SUPER WARM or FRIENDLY and neither was Nicole who was at the front desk and she was also the instructor. No one was rude but it just was NOT that WARM FUZZY FEELING I have come to LOVE about smaller YOGA studios! I guess the best way to describe the personality of this studio was STERILE, CUT and DRY, don’t even think about trying to be my friend, ALL BUSINESS, NO FUN, no one even makes eye contact. If you like that sort of thing then you’ll LOVE it here. I’m more of a WARM and FUZZY personality so I didn’t care for that. I was the new kid in class and both instructors and students made sure I felt it!
The class itself was GREAT! I sweated like a Hebrew slave in the desert! I got tired, hot, sweaty, wanted to quit, but I listened to my body and rested when I needed to! I found it odd that halfway through the standing poses you are on THE CARPET, which is SLIPPERY and instead of the instructors having the class turn to the right or left so that you’re still on your mat. It made it really difficult to do basic poses without thinking I was going to slip and fall, because my feet were sliding on the CARPET. Why have a mat and then not use it on poses where you need it most!
It wasn’t the core power or vinyasa yoga I am used to so I found it weird that I was so tired so quickly. I was worn out by the end of class, but I felt like a MILLION BUCKS! I was relaxed, and even with all the sweating I felt SQUEAKY CLEAN because my pores were UBER CLEAN and my skin was glowing like a 100 watt bulb! IT WAS GREAT! I slept like I was in a comma and woke up refreshed the next day! They don’t have showers like most places that offer BIKRAM, but they do have 2 changing rooms and a bathroom.
I took another class with Emily who was just as friendly as Nicole, but I didn’t care at that point. I was there to do YOGA and get a good workout and I knew this would NOT be my regular studio. The class was easier but I was DEHYDRATED (a big no-​no) and got a little dizzy so I just rested and continued when my head stopped spinning!
I wouldn’t choose this place as my regular yoga studio, but when I want to do some BIKRAM I would come here.

Let me preface by saying I have been practicing hot yoga for almost two years now and really enjoy it. At this studio… I did not.
I was given a five class package to this studio as a Christmas present from my Mom and went in a couple weeks later to try it.
The general vibe of the place is a nothing like what I have come to expect from a yoga studio. Not warm or welcoming at all.
Then there’s the facilities. Why carpeting? There are so many inexpensive alternatives. I really don’t understand it.
It is eight kinds of funky, and they make you do postures where your hands and feet touch the soiled carpet instead of staying on the sanitary sanctuary of your own mat.
The first two classes I took the instructor interrupted class to tell me to put a towel over my non-​slip mat. I have used the same mat for over a year at numerous studios and no teacher has ever done anything like that. I couldn’t believe that she was interrupting the entire class to demand that I cover my mat. It was very awkward.
I kept giving this place the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe everyone that works there was having a bad day… Maybe they have cleaned the carpet today… Maybe I’ll leave with a better feeling after the next class…
After three bad experiences I couldn’t make excuses for this place anymore. I forfeited my remaining to classes and sought hot yoga elsewhere.

I did Bikram yoga for the first time here. I thought that every bikram studio smelled terrible, were small, and had nasty instructors who would be snappy/​give attitude if you did a pose wrong and had a sip of water. Hello. I was a new student! I am not used to the heat and poses, give me a break. Not going to lie, some instructors weren’t that terrible and were actually very friendly.
Anyway, Ive gone to the Irvine Bikram studio, and it is beyond a better maintained studio. Better amenities, merchandise, cleaner, with showers and a lot more spacious. I also liked the vibes more.
After going to several locations, Long Beach is the dirtiest place Ive gone to. Go to the Huntington location instead.

I Love, Love this enlighting experience everytime, evertime I go! I started Jan 1^st & have notice that my inner being has been change to focus more on my body and what it’s sayin; All of the instructor are great and patient and informative. A special thanks to Altin :)

No showers and it smells. How can you not have a shower after sweating for 90 minutes? Very poor quality studio.

I’m going to have to agree with Bridgette A. She summed it up most excellent.
The Bikram experience is much more advanced then your conventional yoga. This practice is not for the living social /​Groupon gypsies. One has to be more focused and determined. Once you appreciate the effects it has both mentally and physically the sweat and the slight odor will be for the birds.
The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is because this location doesn’t have a locker room nor showers.

The instructors all repeat the same things verbatim! they might as well play a tape recorder for every class, it would be the same thing. I thought the classes were boring to death, the 90 minutes felt like forever and it’s not just me being fatigued from the poses. I had a month long membership and only went a few times.
The facility is quite small, there are two changing rooms and one restroom. As others have said, no showers.
I honestly don’t think it’s worth the full price membership and I’m glad i was able to find a deal online.

Suck it up! That smell is the scent of weakness leaving your body. I have been doing Bikram for years and it has improved my overall health incredibly. A lot of the other yoga out there is for people who are unable to bring themselves to the reality that they are completely out of shape.
Great studio, small with a good community. Awesome teacher too, she really knew how to push a class. Thank you!