Eight Types of Classes...
What you need to know the first time you come...
What kind of yoga/pilates practice is right for you?
All of the yoga we teach and practice is helpful for strength, balance and flexibility. Many of our studio members mix and match the types of classes they attend. Why? Sometimes it is convenience, sometimes the need to do something new or different. Some love just one kind of class. We recommend that you try a couple of different class types and see what works best for you.
All of the yoga we teach and practice is helpful for strength, balance and flexibility. Many of our studio members mix and match the types of classes they attend. Why? Sometimes it is convenience, sometimes the need to do something new or different. Some love just one kind of class. We recommend that you try a couple of different class types and see what works best for you.
Here's the Details!
Hot Pilates + HIIT
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Benefits & what Happens: This class is based on Pilates and Tabata (High Intensity Interval Training.) The first half of class we focus on exercises to strengthen glutes, abs, side body, back body enhanced by Pilates principles. These exercises are a safe way to strengthen and identify small muscles that support our larger ones.
The 2nd half of class, we rev up the heart and metabolism with clinically proven High Intensity Interval training. This workout is also based on yoga principles where our breath is our fuel and focus as well as attention to alignment and body parts. Want to know why HIIT is such a hit with all age groups? Just check out this article in the New York Times! Benefits & what Happens: Everything you love about our Hot Pilates class without the High Intensity Interval Training. This class is core focused and core strengthening, accessible for students at any level, and fun! Lightly heated, music infused, core-busting fun! Heat: 90-100 degrees What Types of Students: All postures are perfect for beginning students. How Long are Classes: 60 minutes What to Wear; what to bring: Wear something comfortable & light. Bring a shower towel, a mat towel and a yoga mat or you can rent any of these from the studio. |
Bikram Yoga Classic 90's |
Benefits: A great all-round practice, builds core strength, trims the body and builds muscle mass in all the right places. This class is designed to stretch, strengthen and warm the muscles and tissues restoring the body to healthy range of motion, renewed vitality, and a sense of well being.
What Happens: A teacher walks you 26 postures and two breathing exercises allowing you to be meditative while you tone and tune your body. Some postures focus on breathing, some balancing, some stretching. In between active postures, there are resting postures, giving you the same benefits as interval training. Heat: 103-105 degrees What Types of Students: All postures are beginning hatha yoga postures, perfect for beginning students. How Long are Classes: 90 minutes What to Wear; what to bring: Wear something comfortable & light. Bring a shower towel, a mat towel and a yoga mat or you can rent any of these from the studio. |
Bikram Beats
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Benefits: A 75-minute teacher-guided Bikram method class with Music
What Happens: Students go through the same sequence of 26 postures and 2 breathing postures. And there's music! Heat: 103-105 degrees What Types of Students: Bikram Beats classes are for students who enjoy the full series and music! How Long are Classes: 75 minutes What to Wear; what to bring: Wear something comfortable & light. Bring a shower towel, a mat towel and a yoga mat or you can rent any of these from the studio. |
Bikram Yoga
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Benefits: For those days when time won’t allow a 90 minute practice, we’ve got you covered! Our second most popular class... a fast way to get in a dynamic all-round practice. Perfect for people who want a focused Bikram Yoga practice in a compressed period of time.
Like the Classic 90s classes, builds core strength, trims the body and builds muscle mass. Designed to stretch, strengthen and warm the muscles and tissues restoring the body to healthy range of motion, renewed vitality, and a sense of well being. What happens: The same 26 postures and two breathing exercises as a Classic 90 Bikram class, except some postures are only done once and some are done by flowing postures together. Some postures focus on breathing, some balancing, some stretching. In between active postures, there are resting postures, giving you the same benefits as interval training. Heat: 103-105 degrees What Types of Students: All postures are beginning hatha yoga postures, perfect for beginning students. How Long are Classes: 60 minutes What to Wear; what to bring: Wear something comfortable & light. Bring a shower towel, a mat towel and a yoga mat or you can rent any of these from the studio. |
Power Yoga
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Benefits & what Happens: Power Yoga is a well-balanced, lightly heated, powerful, Vinyasa-Baptiste style practice designed to stretch and strengthen the entire body. Power Flow is breath with movement, a fast paced moving meditation that is challenging, and suitable for all levels of practitioners.
Heat: 90-95 degrees What Types of Students: All postures are perfect for beginning students. How Long are Classes: 60 - 75 minutes What to Wear; what to bring: Wear something comfortable & light. Bring a shower towel, a mat towel and a yoga mat or you can rent any of these from the studio. |
Our Unique, warm
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Benefits: A great way to begin a solid and sustainable yoga practice that incorporates stretching, balance and strengthening poses. The room temperature is warm, not hot and gives your body the key benefits of warmth, especially muscles that are easier to stretch. With fewer standing postures than our other Bikram classes, regular practitioners develop with a solid yoga sequence that is good on its own and also builds the strength and flexibility that helps students who wish to prepare for Bikram-style classes.
What happens: Incorporates many of the same postures as Bikram Yoga, with fewer standing postures and the heat and humidity dialed down. Teachers lead the class and help with ways to make your poses work for you. Heat: 85-95 degrees What Types of Students: A great option for beginners and students concerned about heat. How Long are Classes: 60 minutes What to Wear; what to bring: Wear something comfortable & light. Bring a shower towel, a mat towel and a yoga mat or you can rent any of these from the studio. |
Yin Yoga
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Benefits: Yin Yoga increases mobility, allows deeper relaxation and reduces anxiety and stress by targeting the connective tissues of the hips, pelvis, and lower spine. It is a perfect complement to the dynamic and muscular (yang) styles of yoga that we teach which emphasize internal heat, and the lengthening and contracting of our muscles.
What Happens: A series of floor postures held for 3-5 minutes each, accessing deeper connective tissue and allowing you to work deeply into the body. Heat: practiced at about 80 degrees What Types of Students: Suitable for almost all levels of students. How Long are Classes: 75 minutes What to Wear; what to bring: Wear comfortable clothes, bring a mat (no towel necessary). We will provide some props, and feel free to bring blocks, straps and blankets from home. |