Hard Yoga started with a feeling — that something was missing. Zach Sobel, a yoga teacher working across NYC studios, was searching for a class that moved with real power, made you sweat, didn't take itself too seriously, and actually sparked joy. He couldn't find it.
At the same time, as a longtime fan of bass music, he was finding it harder and harder to keep going to shows. The late start times, the toll on sleep, the way it wore on his body over time — even when he knew, deep down, that something on that dancefloor was genuinely helping him. The community, the release, the collective energy. He just couldn't keep paying the physical price for it.
Then, scrolling r/avesnyc, he came across a stranger's post — someone asking if there were any fitness or yoga classes in the city with harder music. Bass, trap, dub. The post went nowhere. No answers. No traction. Just a question hanging in the air that felt oddly personal.
So Zach decided to take it into his own hands — and Hard Yoga was born in Brooklyn in 2025.
