Yoga Concepts

Bikram Hot Yoga is a 90-minute program featuring a scientifically designed 26-posture sequence practiced in a heated room at 105F. This method enhances flexibility, detoxifies the body, and improves mental focus. Ideal for all fitness levels, it addresses modern stressors and promotes overall wellness through structured physical and mental conditioning.

Our 26-posture sequence systematically works every part of the body, balancing strength, flexibility, and endurance. Each posture prepares the body for the next, creating cumulative benefits that improve circulation, joint health, and muscular efficiency. This methodical approach ensures measurable progress and long-term physical resilience for practitioners.

Our studio uses Far Infrared Heating technology to maintain 105F temperatures with 40% humidity, optimizing muscle relaxation and toxin elimination. This heating method penetrates deeper than conventional systems, enhancing blood flow while reducing injury risk during intense physical activity. It creates a therapeutic environment that supports both performance and recovery.

Designed for newcomers, our beginner classes teach foundational postures and breathing techniques in a supportive setting. Instructors provide personalized guidance to build confidence, correct alignment, and develop body awareness. These sessions emphasize gradual progression, ensuring new practitioners establish safe and effective yoga habits.

With over 40 years of Bikram Yoga expertise, Mary Ann Nassa pioneered hot yoga instruction in the Northeast after recovering from heart surgery through this practice. She has trained professional athletes and collaborated with Bikram Choudhury on national workshops.

Donna Nassa has co-led Yoga Concepts for over 40 years, maintaining strict adherence to Bikram's methodology. Her teaching emphasizes precise posture alignment and therapeutic applications for injury prevention and chronic condition management.

Bikram Hot Yoga consists of 26 specific postures practiced in a heated room at 105°F. This method improves flexibility, strength, and mental focus through a structured sequence designed for all fitness levels.

Each Bikram Yoga class lasts 90 minutes, following the standard 26-posture sequence developed by Bikram Choudhury for comprehensive physical and mental conditioning.

Bring a yoga mat, large towel, water bottle, and wear moisture-wicking clothing. We recommend avoiding eating 3 hours before class to ensure comfort during physical activity.

Yes, our classes accommodate all experience levels. Instructors provide modifications for beginners while offering advanced variations for experienced practitioners in the same session.

The 105°F heat with 40% humidity increases muscle elasticity, enhances detoxification through sweating, and improves cardiovascular efficiency while reducing injury risk during deep stretching.

By far the best instruction I have ever had in 13 years of practice. Mary Ann and Donna are the best of the best. I wish I could practice with them every day. If you are new to yoga or a pro, this is the best studio in Rhode Island. Authentic and true Bikram yoga!

You will learn more in a single class here than you may get anywhere else. This studio is state of the art and super clean. It encompasses the discipline and expertise of an authentic lineage with the comfort and hygiene of a modern spa. It's worth going out of your way for this place. Especially if you're looking for the real deal Bikram Yoga.

Great yoga instruction in a first class studio. I've been practicing yoga under the direction of Mary Ann and Donna for several years and it has truly paid off. It doesn't get any better with their dedication, clean studio, the benefits of far Infrared heat and always great energy throughout each class with motivated fellow students. For those that may be experiencing physical impairments Mary Ann and Donna have introduced adjustments to yoga positions. From my experience, like any form of exercise it takes effort and "great things never come from comfort zones" and the mind and body benefits of this practice pay off!

As an experienced yoga practitioner of 15 years, I was recommended this studio to help with my post-surgical knee. Mary Ann is absolutely the best teacher and mentor. She taught me modifications to ease in my recovery and offered me further recommendations upon further recovery. She is phenomenal! I would pay any price for her expertise! She knows yoga to a level I haven't seen since Bikram.

Yoga Concepts is super clean. The studio doesn't smell and the locker rooms and showers are clean. The heat at this studio is just amazing, it's a hot and sweaty Bikram class, yet my lungs don't feel like they are going to explode. I've been practicing Bikram yoga for over 5 years and the far infrared heat allows me to work harder while Donna and Mary Ann, the owners, give specific corrections that help me improve.

Since I started coming here in May, I can stretch about 4 inches more in the half moon, and can hold the standing head to knee pose w/ leg extended. I've also lost 10 lbs and a dress size. I feel great. This isn't a place where a bored instructor recites the dialogue with the canned corrections. Mary Ann and Donna TEACH, and correct everyone by name. The other students are friendly and polite--people will offer to move over a couple of inches to let you squeeze in and not have to practice in the crack of a mirror, for instance. People of all ages, sizes and shapes practice here--not just the super flexible people in trendy yoga clothes--it's a great place to develop a solid foundation and life long practice.

I have been practicing Bikram yoga for years and have visited number of studios around the country and outside of the US. This is one of the few studios that gets the temperature and humidity perfect nearly every time. Just warm and humid enough so that you are not sweating until you start doing the poses. Mary Ann and Donna are great teachers that have a lot of experience and will help you improve.

They will also notice if you are subtly out of position and give you corrections to get you back in place. If you have not tried hot yoga this would be a great place to do so as you will get personalized instruction. Also if you are a little tight or have an old injury you may get some modifications to the standard poses that will get you straightened back out.

MaryAnn and Donna have been teaching Bikram's yoga method for decades. They know their stuff, unlike many newer "teachers" who just recite a memorized script. MaryAnn and Donna know how to adapt Bikram yoga for all fitness levels, so there is no need to fear if you are not a human pretzel. If you are interested in learning proper form in a beautiful studio, come to Yoga Concepts.