Wellness Hot Yoga
Making lives better every day
About Us
Our Story
At Wellness Hot Yoga (WHY), we’ve been serving the Merrimack Valley region and beyond since 2008.
Starting in North Andover as a yoga-focused studio, we’ve grown to our Haverhill location, offering yoga and wellness services to help students achieve lifelong health.
Our founder, Teri Almquist, brings over 20 years of experience guiding students worldwide in healing through yoga. Her own journey of overcoming pain inspired her mission to make yoga accessible to everyone, especially those who feel it’s out of reach.
Wellness Hot Yoga remains an independently owned and operated, women-owned small business, proudly supporting a diverse community of practitioners.
Thank you for being part of our story and supporting a local business committed to wellness and healing.
The goal of yoga is not to be better at yoga but to have a better quality of life because you come to yoga.
~ Teri Almquist, Owner of Wellness Hot Yoga
Our Approach and Philosophy
We are a community dedicated to unlocking our full potential through healing—physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Our practice fosters resilience, connection, and growth, while cultivating qualities like self-control, concentration, and patience.
We pride ourselves on being a safe, brave, welcoming, accessible, and open space for everyone, serving and supporting a diverse community of practitioners.
Through the shared journey of yoga, we uplift and transform lives. Walk through our doors, and we’ll guide you the rest of the way.
Meet The Team
Our team bring decades of experience in enhancing lives through yoga. Learn more about our yoga teachers, massage therapist, and wellness providers.
Teri Almquist
Teri is the owner and director of WHY, and one of the foremost yoga teachers in the Bikram tradition.
Michael Gu
Mike is a managing partner at WHY and a dedicated Hot Yoga teacher. With a background as a former...
Steven Haver
Steven is the studio manager and a yoga instructor at WHY. He excels in both teaching and managing...
Our Ambassador
Still need some inspiration?
Meet Elaine.
Elaine has been practicing yoga since 2008. When she started at 72 years old she had uncontrolled high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes.
She was convinced to come by her children who made her promise to take 3 classes and they would never talk about yoga to her again.
"Most people my age wake up and take pills, I wake up in the morning and take yoga"
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