There’s a trendy new exercise out there called hot yoga – but is it safe?

Most of us think of yoga as pretty mellow and harmless – but there’s a new yoga trend that could be dangerous... 

It’s called hot yoga. Diana Zotos, yoga instructor and physical therapist, says people need to be warned about hot yoga. It’s definitely not for beginners – and could lead to dehydration, fainting, heatstroke, cramping and muscle injury. 

Hot yoga is performed in a room heated to between 90 and 105 degrees. Diana says the potential problem with hot yoga isn’t the poses themselves—which often are the same ones that you would perform in any other yoga class—it’s that the heat adds a new dimension, in that it puts more strain on your cardiovascular system.