the mission
HEAVY METAL YOGA TO TORTURE YOUR MIND, BODY, AND FORSAKEN SOUL.
From the bowels of hellfire…
Yoga is welcoming to all (even hippies), but the primary audience is young teens and adults between the ages of 14-30. Gen Z has had unique challenges connected with being chronically online. The negative impacts of social media (loneliness, depression, and anxiety) are heartbreaking to witness. We all know someone affected, and we can’t rely on large companies whose profits depend on engagement or government whose outdated regulatory framework provides little to no accountability for the misinformation, disinformation, and cyber bullying that a young, developing mind absorbs at an unsustainable rate. We need spaces and experiences that us out of our daily doom scrolling, to build self-esteem through playful exercise and peer engagement.
Hellfire Yoga provides a space to disconnect from devices and connect with community. We have an over-abundance of rage and anger in the world—and not enough healthy outlets for releasing it. Hellfire Yoga opens the release valve on the rage pipes, freeing the fiery flow of pain, anger, and resentment, all in an environment designed for fitness and fun, without judgement…well, Lord Yogaroth has been known to judge sometimes in jest. You might see him disembowel a life-sized manosphere celebrity for example. However, the underlying mission is one of building community, creating connection, having fun and purging rage in a controlled environment. Think of it as a rage room, but less wasteful.
DESIGN BY TAYLOR JACOBS
To achieve this goal, Hellfire Yoga LLC is embarking on a new journey in the summer of 2026. Lord Yogaroth is selling merch, doing performances and classes to generate revenue, build a larger brand to one day stand on its own as a nonprofit.
On a personal level, heavy music was there for me as an angsty lad, and yoga was there for me as a burned-out adult. In 2014, I experimented with merging heavy metal with Yoga, drawing from my experience as a musician and yoga practitioner. In 2015, Hellfire Yoga was born, with a series of wild classes in Joshua Tree at the BEquinox festival. Since 2015, Hellfire Yoga has been on the backburner, but now I’m back in black! Let’s connect, stretch, suffer, rock out with our cock out, jam out with our clam out. What doesn’t kill you, makes you limber…and Metal!
Headbangingly yours, Lord Yogaroth
