Roody was born in the small village of Port Margot in the north of Haiti and emigrated to the US at the tender age of twelve. Upon exiting the airport building at JFK into cold February weather, his first thought was “why would so many people choose to live in an ice-box?”. He has been seeking the hot-box ever since. Roody first trained as an engineer and software developer, working for companies such as Karp Associates and Estee Lauder. He later purchased a manufacturing company and worked as a manufacturing consultant. He was introduced to yoga by his wife Jessica on their second date. It wasn’t hot enough (the yoga that is, you’ll have to ask Jessica about the date.) But then he discovered Bikram and with this method the heat he had been missing since he landed at JFK all those years ago. He and Jessica opened their first Bikram yoga studio after the birth of their second child. And they still have hot dates.