Fire Shaper: Where Evolution Meets Transformation
At Fire Shaper, we’ve redefined hot yoga into an extraordinary, life-changing practice. Our innovative approach combines the perfect balance of heat, movement, and mindful breath, creating an environment that allows you to push your limits and achieve what you never thought possible. Step into our controlled heated room, where every class is an invitation to discover your strength, deepen your practice, and transform your body and mind like never before.
Hot Yoga Re-defined
With over 25 years of experience, Fire Shaper has been a leader in the hot yoga community, delivering transformative classes and teacher trainings that empower students worldwide. Operating internationally with studios in both the USA and Australia, Fire Shaper is a brand that combines tradition with innovation, offering a unique hot yoga experience that helps you achieve your fullest potential. Our state-of-the-art facilities and expertly designed classes ensure you receive the highest quality yoga practice, every time you step onto the mat.
Founded by Dr. John Surie, a highly respected figure in the health and wellness field, Fire Shaper is built on decades of expertise. Dr. Surie’s profound knowledge of the body, mind, and spirit has shaped Fire Shaper’s philosophy of transformation through movement, breath, and heat. His dedication to helping others reach their best selves is reflected in every class, every training, and every student’s journey. Join us and experience the Fire Shaper difference — a path to strength, clarity, and inner peace.
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What is Fire Shaper?
Hot yoga is a series of poses, or asana’s, carried out within a heated environment, typically 100 – 105°F, and a humidity of 40% – 50%. Bikram Choudhury had introduced his version of Hot Yoga in the 1970s called Bikram Yoga which, quickly became one of the most adopted yoga practices in the US.
The heat and humidity allows increased results and flexibility in the body, helping you gradually attain your personal best with the poses, whilst simultaneously expelling harmful toxins from your body. It will also assist you with a range of benefits, from losing fat, building core muscles, improving balance, increasing energy, assisting sleep, and decreasing stress.
The combination of the poses and the increased temperature helps stimulate and restore health to your joints, organs, muscles, and immune system whilst detoxifying your body.
With our new and much enhanced suite of yoga classes corresponding with all age and skill levels, Fire Shaper has evolved and redefined both the heated yoga and the traditional yoga experience. Our improved range of classes provides the benefits of the Hot Yoga core-strength and body-shaping practices, with traditional yoga programs, to bring you an entirely new perspective to our philosophy.
Also, when you come along, talk to one of our trainers about becoming a Fire Shaper teacher yourself at one of several Fire Shaper teacher training courses we run.
Our Origin
Fire Shaper is the brainchild of Dr. John Surie and his wife Natalie, both teachers and practitioners at their four studios.
Natalie comes from Australia’s Gold Coast and has practiced hot yoga across the globe, becoming a qualified teacher in 2001. Her husband Dr. John is a licensed chiropractor in the United States and Australia and is currently in active practice in Australia. A skilled martial artist and certified hot yoga instructor, Dr John began practicing heated yoga when he met Natalie in 2000.
In 2002 they opened their first hot yoga studio in Westwood NJ. Since then the company has evolved from one to four chic studio spaces. Natalie and Dr. John are passionate about bringing the Fire Shaper Hot Yoga experience to as many people as possible, and with the expansion of the Fire Shaper studio family worldwide, that dream has fast become a reality.