Rebekah Santiago has been working her way through Seattle’s neighborhoods her entire life. Born and raised in Capitol Hill, her family moved to Ballard when she was in high school. She started working at Red Mill Burger, eventually becoming a manager of the Interbay restaurant.
While doing that, Santiago started practicing yoga when she got pregnant with her first daughter at the Seattle Holistic Center and hasn’t stopped since. Eleven years later, she’s combining her business management experience and her love for yoga to start her very own studio, Sweat Hot Yoga, here in Fremont.
“I love the Hatha and Vinyasa Flows and that is what I want to bring to Fremont,” says Santiago. How she ended up in Fremont is a matter of friends and her longtime love for the area.
“When I started to look for a spot to lease I was all over the map in Seattle. Nothing seemed right. I knew that I wanted to be in Ballard or Fremont but no place was what I wanted. My best friends Jeff and April Cornell, owners of Hidden Hand Tattoo, told me that I should look at the space right next to them in the Dubliner building. I have always loved the feel of Fremont. It has been tradition for my family to walk the Sunday Fair since my little one was born. I love the feel, love and community Fremont has.”
And so Santiago is setting up shop at 3516D Fremont Ave North, next to Hidden Hand. The studio is expected to open sometime in May and will feature Vinyasa and Hatha Flow in a hot, sweaty environment. Rebekah also wants it to be a family-friendly place, for your family and hers.
“I expect to have a large family at my studio. I want it to be laid back and easy going. Yoga for everyone, shape, age, size. I want it to be fun, not like a gym. I am going to have one massage room for clients. My sister is a massage therapist who would rent that. My mother, a seven time breast cancer survivor, has been getting involved with Reiki and is now becoming a Reiki Master. I would like to add that to the mix. In the future I would like to have a day where the room isn’t hot and teach prenatal and yoga to cancer survivors.”
For now, she invites you to sign up for email updates at her website. She will be raffling off five Free Month Unlimited Memberships during our opening day classes, so you’ll want to be aware of those. She has a good idea of how the studio will kick things off but hope for the community to help her in making the studio the best it can be.
“I will start with one morning class and 4 evening classes but I want the community to help with letting me know when they want classes. I want to be a studio that listens to the community with the services I have. I strongly feel that Fremont will let me know and will be pleased with what I can offer.”
15 responses so far ↓
1 D // Apr 4, 2011 at 1:21 pm
“While doing that, Santiago started practicing yoga when she got pregnant with her first daughter at the Seattle Holistic Center and hasn’t stopped since.”
That sentence structure makes me worry how people are getting pregnant at the holistic center.
2 Josh // Apr 4, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Really, they are using Papyrus as their font? Just like every other Yoga/Holistic/Naturopathy place on this planet. So lazy…
3 Leo // Apr 4, 2011 at 5:16 pm
Way to go Bekah! Fremont will be a perfect home for you.
4 G // Apr 4, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Really Josh, you make a comment about font? What are you the font police? So d-baggy….. Welcome to the neighbor hood Rebekah! Not all of us are like “Josh.”
5 jose // Apr 4, 2011 at 7:57 pm
Yo, Josh Why dont you open your own buisness with your own font. Welcome Sweat Hot Yoga.
6 Jake // Apr 5, 2011 at 9:11 am
Josh weighs in at about 450 sitting in his parents basement complaining about font, in between star trek episodes. I however think it looks sweet and cant wait to sweat out friday nights beers.
7 Fremonster // Apr 5, 2011 at 9:57 am
I’m Comic Sans, Asshole!
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues/15comicsans.html
8 Josh // Apr 5, 2011 at 11:33 am
Hey, I hope any new business in our hood does well. I just happen to enjoy good design (as I am sure many other Fremonster/Seattlites do). I hope they do so well that they can eventually hire someone or crowd source for a new font/logo to adorn their studio.
Friends don’t let friends use Papyrus. Even if those friends are other 500-pounders living in their parents’ basements watching Star Trek. Also, tsk tsk on the poor stereotyping. If I cared about fonts wouldn’t I be a malnourished hipster in skinny jeans with a wool cap and a ironic beard lurched over my MacBook Pro?
9 G // Apr 5, 2011 at 3:57 pm
Go font yourself. Have fun riding around Fremont on your Vespa.
10 Mom // Apr 5, 2011 at 4:45 pm
I’m so proud of you Bekah!
11 Fremontster // Apr 5, 2011 at 9:50 pm
Good luck Rebekah, I plan on checking out your studio.
12 happypants // Apr 8, 2011 at 8:17 pm
I agree with Josh!
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14 shasta // Apr 19, 2011 at 1:46 pm
welcome rebekah and sweat hot yoga! i’m so excited for your arrival as i’ve been looking for another studio to practice at in addition to the bikram studio in fremont. i hope you plan on offering a 6am class for those of us who have day jobs and don’t want to deal with the crowded evening classes! also, let me know if you need any design/marketing help… i love to work for trade!!
15 cathy // Apr 27, 2011 at 6:03 am
We are waiting for the studio to open.
I hope you also have early morning classes like 6 am.
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