Yoga studios are more than just an open space with an area for students to place their mats. Yoga studios are evolving to include special rooms for different types of yoga, special lighting, and even temperature changes for practices like hot yoga.
With this in mind, you can have several additions put in by a professional electrician to enhance the overall feel of your new yoga studio. The following are five of those electrical additions for you to consider and how they can benefit your studio.
A key factor in many yoga styles is to keep the temperature of the room stable. LED lights offer the benefit of putting off less heat than most traditional lighting methods, allowing you to maintain the room temperature during yoga sessions without overworking your AC.
LED lights also offer the benefit of strip LED lighting to help evenly distribute the light throughout the studio, giving each student the right amount of light and darkness without ultra-bright or dark spots that can be distracting during a yoga session.
You may have a yoga class, such as hot yoga, where lighting is minimal. One way to keep the lighting minimal during these classes while still keeping the ambiance of the class setting is to use well washing.
Well washing illuminates the walls rather than the room. The lighting can come from above, below, or both and is usually run across or inside the baseboards and trim. The lights can be set to a switch in the room that will turn off the overhead lighting and switch on the well lighting. The lighting can also be set on a dimmer switch to make setting the lighting mood easier for each class and each teacher’s personality.
Cove lighting is ideal for yoga classes that mix a meditative element into the asanas of a specific yoga form. Cove lighting is used primarily on ceiling areas and can illuminate the outline of the room. It can also be done in strips, design patterns, or to give a specific effect the instructor may be looking for.
For example, you can use LED lighting strips to create a pattern on the ceiling that gives the impression of an ocean or night sky. Once the lighting is turned on, the pattern appears and can even adjust in color or in a fading effect for the duration of the class. This helps with the meditative portion of the class by giving a soothing lighting point for the students to focus on.
Your studio design may not allow for things like flowing water and other ambient sounds. You can still have these soothing noises in your studio or in specific rooms of your studio while connecting them to the lighting.
Your electrician can connect the lighting and sound effects on a panel that is easily accessible and easy to use. The panel will allow you to choose the sounds, the duration of the sounds, lighting changes, and the lighting duration. You can make changes to these lighting and sound integrations and store certain patterns in the device to use later.
One way to give your studio a unique feel is to create an ocean or galaxy effect throughout the room. With this in mind, projector lighting may be ideal. You can have your electrician install a projector in the main study or in each room of the studio building. When you are ready to use the projector, simply put in the film that fits the mood and set the projector timer.
If any of these additions sound like something that would work in your new yoga studio, contact
Palmer Electric Inc. We can assist you with questions, design implementation, and with scheduling the installation of the additions you want for your studio.
