🔥 Sol Hot Yoga transforms your mat into more than a space for movement—it’s a mirror for truth, a crucible for transformation, and your sacred space for awakening. Rooted in the wisdom of the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali, we recognize that suffering is inherent in life as human beings.  Rather than accepting this as a curse, our awakening to the causes of suffering allows us to understand, learn from, and ultimately transcend.  The Sol Hot Yoga sequences and systems are intentionally designed to serve your path to reduce, release, and reverse suffering in your daily life.

🕉️ The Root Causes of Suffering

In the Yoga Sūtras, Patañjali outlines the five Kleśas—the root causes of suffering:

1. Avidyā (a state of ignoring) – Forgetting our true Self

2. Asmitā (a state of egoic self-preservation) – Misidentifying true Self with the mind or body

3. Rāga (Attachment) – Craving our expectations and clinging to the past

4. Dveṣa (Aversion) – Resisting what brings discomfort and anxiety of the future

5. Abhiniveśa (Fear of Change) – Clinging to physical life or fearing loss of identity

These mental afflictions bind us in cycles of reactivity, depression, tension, and anxiety. But what if these aren’t just obstacles? What can we learn from these experiences?

✨ Honoring the Space

Each Kleśa offers a lesson. When we feel aversion (Dveṣa), we’re being shown where we’re resisting growth. When attachment arises (Rāga), we can explore where we’re outsourcing our peace. Fear of change or loss (Abhiniveśa) can lead us to inquire into what we believe is permanent.

At Sol, every sequence, every breath, every moment of stillness is an opportunity to bring these unconscious patterns into the light. Not so we can judge them—but so we can choose.

We often reference this quote from Viktor Frankl: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.“

The Sufi poet Rumi said it another way in his poem:

Out beyond ideas
of wrong-doing and right-doing,
there is a field – I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase
“each other”
don’t make any sense.

Honoring this space for freedom is the heart of Svādhyāya (self-study)—a core pillar of yogic living.

🌊 Reduce Suffering

When we act from ignorance or ego, we seeds of past karma manifest and new seeds are planted— this is not about punishment, but momentum. Our perceptions shape our reality and our reactions to stimulus can reinforce our expectations. Sol Hot Yoga provides the tools to interrupt those patterns, soften the grip of conditioning, and creates the space to choose from clarity instead of compulsion.

• Ego – 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 is the equalizer, forcing the ego to dissolve with each drop of sweat

• Attachment – Hatha teaches us the impact of subtle differences through the repetition

• Aversion – Vinyasa teaches us to embrace variety with flowing grace

Together, the karma of suffering begins to unwind. What once felt like a burden becomes a pathway to freedom.

🧘 Release Suffering

Patañjali gives us a direct teaching in Yoga Sūtra 2.26:

“Uninterrupted discriminative awareness is the method for the removal of suffering.

This means: the more consistently we practice clarity and discernment—especially through meditation—the more we dissolve the roots of suffering at their source.

At Sol, meditation isn’t just something we do at the end of class. It’s a way of releasing tension again and again, until we begin to see clearly: I am not my thoughts. I am not my pain. I am the awareness that holds it all.

• 🔥 Tapas (heat) – Stoking the inner fire – intention – while releasing the physical toxins

• 🌬️ Prāṇāyāma (breath control) – Shifting the nervous system out of fight or flight, releasing the physical tension in our bodies

• 🧘 Dhyāna (meditation) – Building awareness of each unique moment without reacting, releasing the tension in our minds

Approaching Sol Hot Yoga classes as a moving meditation helps us reverse the cycle—not by pushing against life, but by seeing through the illusion. In this space, we can choose to respond with love, wisdom, and grace.

🛡️ Reverse Suffering

The Sol Hot Yoga practice is designed to reverse the inertia of suffering. At Sol, we honor the potential liberation from the cycle of suffering — a sacred choice, a freedom that no one can steal. We’re not here to bypass struggle. We’re here to guide you along a path that transcends suffering.

Modern teachers like Eckhart Tolle speak of the “pain body”—the accumulation of old emotional pain stored in the body and mind. When triggered, the ego’s self-preservation instinct rises up and pulls us backwards into reactive loops. But here’s the powerful truth: the pain body doesn’t need to be fought. It merely needs to be seen. In our practice, we create a safe space to sit with pain — to shine a light on it — not alone, but together.

When you arrive in that space — physically, mentally, and emotionally — the entire conversation changes.  This is the home of Peaceful Warriors.  Each time you notice discomfort, each breath that tugs at the heart, each time you feel doubts stirring in your mind; you are creating space for healing. You’re practicing abiding in the Four Divine Abodes — learning the lessons we’ve forgotten about grace and our inherent abundance.  Your voluntary vulnerability is the greatest demonstration of courage.

This is how we reverse the momentum of the pain body: through presence, not avoidance; through remembering, no longer in a state of ignoring.  This is a battle for freedom.

“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.” – Thucydides

🌞 The Sol Invitation

Sol Hot Yoga creates the space to immerse ourselves fully, without drowning in it – to witness tension, without being consumed by it. Moving, breathing, and connecting through mindful intention, we can witness our pain body without identifying with it, as it, nor by it. Each and every class provides countless opportunities to release it — without force — simply by seeing it, it loses power over us.  The illusions dissolve and we can be whole again, in union with our true Self.

The yoga we teach is not just about flexibility in the body; it’s about freedom in the soul.

• ❤️ Compassionate Self-Inquiry – We greet challenges with genuine loving-kindness, empathy, joy, and equanimity

Come sit with the Peaceful Warriors.  Come as you are. Bring your burdens, your questions, your ache to live more fully. Bring the parts of you that have been silenced or shamed. We will meet you there—with breath, with stillness, with love.

Let your mat be your mirror. Let your practice be your path.

We struggle well together & we invite you to practice with Sol.

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