- December 4, 2025
Hot Yoga Lounge in Palm Coast has expanded to Ormond Beach — and a third studio in Flagler Beach is coming soon.
Studio owners Heather Doutrick and Stephaney Erdman celebrated the opening of their new Hot Yoga Lounge location in Ormond Beach in early September. Located at 400 S. Atlantic Ave. on the second floor of the Aliki Plaza, the studio offers group classes, private instruction and workshops.
Doutrick, an Ormond Beach resident, said they wanted to establish a new yoga community in her hometown. She opened Hot Yoga Lounge in Palm Coast 15 years ago, where she lived at the time, having moved to raise her family.
"I've always wanted to expand and my partner gave me the push, the fire to say, 'Let's do this,'" Doutrick said.
Yoga has been a part of her life for 18 years. Doutrick said it's not only benefitted her physical health, but her mental wellness too.
Before Erdman was her business partner, she was a student at the Palm Coast studio. Erdman started taking classes in 2012 and five years later, the two began running teacher training programs. They had talked about opening new studios in years past, but the COVID-19 pandemic put those plans on hold.
The Ormond Beach location was up and running on Sept. 5.
"It's been wonderful," Erdman said. "It's super exciting to see something come to fruition that we've dreamed about."
Shortly after getting started in Ormond, the chance to acquire One Love Yoga in Flagler Beach came about.
Doutrick and Erdman jumped at the opportunity.
"It was kind of a synchronicity moment," Erdman said. "We had one baby we were nurturing and then we were offered another."
They took ownership of the Flagler Beach studio on Oct. 1.
The location in Ormond Beach also presents opportunities for Hot Yoga Lounge to offer classes like sunrise yoga and beach yoga in the future, Doutrick said.
"Everybody's been very welcoming and very excited that we're here to give them a few other options in the community," she said. "Or, if they don't practice yoga, a new home, maybe, for them. Ideally, what we want is this will be their second home."
Expanding Hot Yoga Lounge has been a "dream come true," said Erdman. After putting in so much work to open the Ormond Beach studio, it meant a lot to her to see students and instructors celebrate their opening on Sept. 5.
"We tore it down from what it was," she said. "We built it up to what it is, and walking in and seeing everyone see it for the first time, it melted my heart because there was such a great reception."
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