Hot Yoga Redefined
For more than 25 years, Fire Shaper has been a hot yoga leader in Westwood and across New Jersey, building a reputation for powerful classes, expert instruction, and a results driven heated yoga experience. What began as a single studio has grown into a trusted destination for students seeking strength, flexibility, stress relief, and lasting transformation.
Today, Fire Shaper continues to redefine hot yoga in Northern New Jersey by combining intelligent sequencing, infrared heat, breathwork, and performance based movement. Our studios are designed to challenge beginners and experienced practitioners alike while creating a supportive, high energy community.
What Is Fire Shaper?
Hot yoga is a series of poses, or asana’s, carried out within a heated environment, typically 100 – 105°F, and a humidity of 40% – 50%. Bikram Choudhury had introduced his version of Hot Yoga in the 1970s called Bikram Yoga which, quickly became one of the most adopted yoga practices in the US.
The heat and humidity allows increased results and flexibility in the body, helping you gradually attain your personal best with the poses, whilst simultaneously expelling harmful toxins from your body. It will also assist you with a range of benefits, from losing fat, building core muscles, improving balance, increasing energy, assisting sleep, and decreasing stress.
The combination of the poses and the increased temperature helps stimulate and restore health to your joints, organs, muscles, and immune system whilst detoxifying your body.
With our new and much enhanced suite of yoga classes corresponding with all age and skill levels, Fire Shaper has evolved and redefined both the heated yoga and the traditional yoga experience. Our improved range of classes provides the benefits of the Hot Yoga core-strength and body-shaping practices, with traditional yoga programs, to bring you an entirely new perspective to our philosophy.
Also, when you come along, talk to one of our trainers about becoming a Fire Shaper teacher yourself at one of several Fire Shaper teacher training courses we run.
Our Origin
Fire Shaper is the vision and creation of Dr. John Surie, founder, teacher, and lifelong student of movement, healing, and human performance. With studios in both the United States and Australia, Fire Shaper has grown into an internationally recognised hot yoga community built on strength, integrity, and transformation.
Dr. John is a licensed chiropractor in the United States and Australia and currently practices in Australia. A life-long martial artist and certified hot yoga instructor, he began practicing heated yoga in 2000 and quickly recognised its powerful impact on strength, mobility, and overall wellbeing. His background in chiropractic care, biomechanics, and athletic training deeply influences the Fire Shaper method and teaching approach.
In 2002, Dr. John opened the first Fire Shaper hot yoga studio in Westwood, New Jersey. Since then, Fire Shaper has expanded into multiple purpose-built studio spaces, continuing its mission to help people move better, breathe deeper, and live stronger through intelligent heated movement practices.
Hot Yoga has been redefined as Fire Shaper – be part of the journey with us.