Welcome to Energize Hot Yoga Santa Rosa!
Energize has been open and offering wonderful classes to the community since 2001.
We offer 50+ yoga and Pilates classes per week for beginner and intermediate students of all ages, and all levels of strength, fitness and flexibility. Energize is a safe, positive, fun, motivating yoga and Pilates studio for ALL students to challenge themselves and reach their highest fitness goals. Our community of students, teachers and staff is very welcoming, positive, encouraging, kind, friendly and inclusive.
With a regular, 4+ classes per week, yoga/Pilates routine your body will get stronger, and more flexible. You will experience improved posture, endurance, coordination, joint strength, balance, and mental clarity. You will see your muscle tone greatly improve as you make it through each challenging workout. Many students experience reduced aches and pains, better sleep, reduced anxiety and greater overall happiness.
Many of our instructors have been teaching at Energize for more than 10 years, and some even more than 18 years. All our instructors are well trained, knowledgeable and enjoy teaching yoga/fitness/Pilates.
All Energize yoga instructors have completed a 200–500+ hour YTT Certification Course.
All Energize Pilates instructors have completed the Inferno Hot Pilates Certification Course.
We hope that you join us for a wonderful class soon!
Meet the owner: Rebecca Pennington
Rebecca was born in 1978 and grew up in Sebastopol, California. She graduated from Sonoma State University. She worked as a wilderness adventure guide for eight years taking teenagers and adults on outdoor adventure trips. She has also worked as a fitness coach and a physical education teacher. Her passion is fitness, nutrition, and health.
She enjoys mountain biking, skiing, snowboarding, rock climbing, kiteboarding, etc.…sports of all kinds. She backpacked about 1700 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from Canada to Mt Whitney, CA.
After injuring her left knee joint from overuse, a friend introduced her to Bikram Yoga. She was amazed at what practicing Bikram Yoga did for her body. Her knee joint slowly became stronger and stopped throbbing with pain. Her body’s alignment, posture, balance, and strength improved incredibly. Her athletic abilities greatly increased in all the sports she plays. Her stress level began to decrease, and she was able to sleep better at night. Rebecca has practiced Bikram Yoga since 2003. She has seen how much Bikram Yoga has helped not only herself, but everyone who practices around her. She has seen those of all ages, sizes, and abilities benefit greatly from a regular Bikram Yoga practice. She has seen so many students transform their bodies and reduce aches and pains. Rebecca went to teacher training in April 2010 and became the new owner of Energize Hot Yoga (formerly Bikram Yoga of Santa Rosa) in May 2011.
Rebecca has twins, one boy and one girl, born in 2014. She practiced Bikram Yoga throughout most of her pregnancy using modifications. In 2016 Rebecca went to Inferno Hot Pilates teacher training in San Francisco and brought this very popular, challenging, strengthening, toning, fun class to Energize Hot Yoga Santa Rosa.
Rebecca loves her incredible staff and wonderful students at Energize. She believes in creating a safe, positive, encouraging, uplifting, inclusive environment for all people to challenge themselves physically and become stronger, healthier, happier and stress-free.