Hotpod Yoga

Who we are.

Hotpod Yoga is Europe’s largest yoga business. Founded in 2013 by two childhood friends, Max Henderson (a strategy consultant) and Nick Higgins (a teacher), we want to take yoga to more people and places than ever before by doing two things:

Creating a yoga experience like no other. We’ve set out to design an extraordinary yoga studio and build a strong brand - in a cocooning pod, with carefully engineered sound and scents and a consistent 37° warmth: the perfect conditions to stretch out and deeply relax a diverse audience - providing intense and immersive classes for the expert and novice alike.

Empowering Hotpod owners all over the world. The Hotpod Yoga experience was designed to be shared. Not just with a broad range of students but with aspiring teachers: franchise owners who could share all of the brand’s infrastructure, passion and innovation, and hit the ground running with their own Hotpod business.

In 2025, there are over 60 Hotpod Yoga studios, and counting. They host thousands of classes a week, each one dispelling the idea that you have to be bendy to enjoy yoga. Or yogic to love Hotpod Yoga.

We’re also a B Corp. Whether it’s inspiring people to step into their first yoga class or empowering a teacher to leap into the world of entrepreneurship, we’re proud of the positive impact we have. But, beyond that, we always want to ensure that the way we do business is something we’re proud of too. We look to maximise our positive social and environmental impact and reduce any negative impact in all we do, through every role.