Day-to-day operating brief
What Hot Yoga Teacher (Bikram) work looks like in practice
A Hot Yoga Teacher leads yoga in a deliberately heated environment, including branded or fixed-sequence formats only where authorised. Terms should cover temperature and humidity controls, ventilation, hydration, room capacity, late entry, towels and mats, cleaning, class sequence, adaptations, participant screening, pregnancy or health queries, heat illness, emergency response, music and limits on therapeutic or medical claims. A heated yoga room changes the risk profile through temperature, humidity and dehydration. The teacher should know who monitors environmental conditions, what participants are told before entry and when heat, dizziness or nausea requires someone to leave and cool safely. If the class is marketed using a named method, any current permission or training must be described accurately. Contract terms can also cover door policy, ventilation, cleaning, water, towels, pregnancy or health disclosures, non-heated alternatives, emergency access and the prohibition on pressuring a participant to remain in the room. Cleaning and turnaround time should allow the room to be ventilated, wet floors addressed and environmental readings checked before the next group is admitted.
Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.