Welcome back to part 2 of this 2-part special on the Rather Be Sweating Podcast. This week, we're flipping the script and I'm the one being interviewed! Let's backtrack: last week on Episode 11, we heard from Danny, one of our most...

In this episode on the Rather Be Sweating Podcast, I interview Danny, one of our members at Hometown Sweat.Danny began practicing Original Hot Yoga before the pandemic, and then took about an 18 month break from any yoga beginning in Ma...

In this episode, I interview one of Hometown Sweat's most consistent, hard-working, and committed students, Glenda.And it’s no coincidence that I’m releasing this episode rig...

Just over a week ago, we returned home from Casa Om in Puerto Morelos, Mexico where I spent a week  leading my first ever yoga retreat. The experience was so special and so incredibly soulful, and I wanted to publish a podcast episode abou...

In this episode, I'm interviewing my husband!That's right, Ben agreed to let me ask him all of the questions about how he got into yoga, why he got into yoga, and how it's helped him as a former college athlete who's still...

In this episode, I'm diving into the details of one of Hometown Sweat's most popular classes: Inferno Hot Pilates. We'll cover what makes this class unique, who can practice this class, my own personal experience taking IHP for the...

When it comes to trying hot yoga for the first time, it's really common to be nervous and even hesitant. Lots of times people want  to take a class, but a few hurdles stand in their way.And I get it. I was wicked intimidat...

Being the owner of a small business - a brick and mortar yoga studio - during the Covid-19 Pandemic was one of the most challenging things I have ever experienced. And even though 2020 and 2021 held a lot of stress and uncertainly, the pandemic...

Original Hot Yoga and Bikram Yoga are synonymous in describing the powerful, challenging, therapeutic hot yoga class. And up until 2019, I referred to the practice as "Bikram Yoga."However, I had been realizing for years that in order f...

It sucks to not like what you see when you look in the mirror. To measure who you are as an individual based on a physical appearance staring back at you.To feel like if you could only shrink this or add that or change over ...

In this episode, I'm giving a 5,000 foot overview of Original Hot Yoga. This style of yoga, also known as Bikram Yoga, Hot 90, or 26 & 2, is in incredibly healing and therapeutic yoga modality. It's also wicked intense, from the 90-minute d...

In the first episode of the Rather Be Sweating Podcast, Maria talks to fellow yoga mama Allysa about her experience practicing hot yoga, becoming trained as a yoga teacher, and ultimately finding her sobriety in the darkest days of the Covid-19...