ABOUT
Hot Yoga Microstudio
Prana House of Hot Yoga is led by Padma Dharmata, and is a Hot Yoga microstudio located within the BonaFide Wellness Collective in Clarksville, TN.
Prana House of Hot Yoga was built on the belief that true yoga is for EVERY BODY. The classes are challenging and you WILL sweat, but all classes are also adaptable to each person's individual needs. In one single class, you may see athletes and flexible students, next to those who can barely bend or use chairs for assistance. This yoga is a fully encompassing mind-body practice. For those who are searching and need a little healing or self-reflection, for those who are looking for low-impact high-challenge physical fitness, for those looking for healing, a spiritual journey, or for an activity complimentary to working through PTSD/TBI's, physical injuries, and SO MUCH MORE.
Prana House of Hot Yoga is led by Padma Dharmata, a hot yoga local powerhouse who has been teaching and studying for 13 years, and practicing for 20 years. She embodies yoga as her life and personally has utilized yoga for deep inner healing, as well as a modality for chronic physical pain. Read more about Padma here.
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Padma Dharmata
Padma Dharmata is an ERYT-500 yoga instructor, and has been teaching this unique style of yoga since 2012 in Clarksville, Hopkinsville, and Ft Campbell, with over 12,000 teaching hours of experience. Her specialty over the years has been teaching motivational large group hot yoga classes adapted to each person present. Her core belief is in utilizing the full and proper heat and humidity (which is a method and a science, rather than just throwing heaters into a room) along with her signature yoga series (which incorporates breath along with very balanced and scientific movement for the external and internal body) in order to achieve maximum potential, pain relief, and even healing in the body.
She believes and teaches that yoga should and can be challenging, but yoga can be as gentle or as complex as needed. It can be physical movement, breath, thought, laughter, a hike in the sun, an afternoon on the lake, or an evening with a friend. Yoga is a very broad term that is meant to point to whatever path you choose that connects you to your truest self.
Padma spent years utilizing hot yoga to manage chronic pain and to heal deep trauma, then during 2020, she began to study ayurveda and was able to begin treating her pain through movement and diet alone---severe pain that if left untreated is debilitating and keeps her from being able to walk after some time. It has inspired her to continue studying the science of herbs and spices, and holistic health and wellness, and she currently is studying to become a Naturopathic Practitioner and an Ayurvedic Practitioner. Ayurveda is essentially the belief and practice that everything in our life can either be our poison or our medicine.
Padma is also an author, and a spiritual guide. After a near-death experience during childbirth in 2023 and crossing over to the other side, the experience impacted her in such a way that it leaves her placing heavy importance on her work and teaching, her children, and connecting with people in the most authentic way possible.
