What Style Is Right For You?

There are many styles of yoga and each will challenge your mind and body in unique ways. Having a disciplined yoga practice at Sanctuary Yoga will increase your strength, flexibility, stability and improve mental clarity as well as induce calmness.

We understand the importance of balance both in lifestyle and in yoga practice. We infuse our classes with our knowledge of the ancient healing system of Ayurveda.

Ayurveda is a Sanskrit word that means the ‘science of life’ (ayu= life and veda= knowledge). It is the sister science of Yoga and although both are entirely different Vedic healing systems, they cross over and complement each other in many ways. The practice of Ayurveda and Yoga together provides one with a complete system of wellbeing for the body, mind and spirit.

Explore the options you’ll find here with us and find the right classes for You.

Restorative Yoga

Restorative yoga is a gentle, slow, still style of yoga that involves long, passive holds in a series of 4-6 restful poses. Yogis are often supported by props to enhance or deepen their experience and achieve a state of total relaxation and release.

The use of props enhance alignment and allow for the accessibility of yoga for everybody. Restorative yoga is appropriate for all beginners as well as advanced yogis and yoginis.

Most restorative yoga classes include a combination of therapeutic elements like essential oils, touch assistance, guided meditation and soothing music. Choosing a restorative class or workshop may be the perfect supplement to more active classes like hot power yoga or a vinyasa flow yoga class. If you are recovering from an illness or injury, restorative yoga will aid in your recovery.

Discovering restorative yoga as well as the different instructors who teach it at Sanctuary Yoga, will help to expand your practice. Taking a step back and discovering the longer, slower format and different ways to get into the poses may be just the element you need to achieve more flexibility, mobility, balance and calmness.

Yin Yoga

Yin yoga is a slow-paced, passive type of yoga that incorporates long holds and deep breaths for a super deep stretch. Designed to prepare the body for comfort in seated meditation, Yin yoga is the perfect complement to more vigorous Yang-based practices like Vinyasa and Power Yoga.

Yin yoga involves a series of seated and postures laying on your back, typically held for 3-5 minutes at a time. During these periods of stillness, there is a surrendering sensory experienced that melts residual tension and stress. Incorporating Yin yoga into your practice will leave you feeling lighter, clearer and completely relaxed as it helps to unblock any stagnant emotions or blocked energy within your Chakra centers.

Yin yoga is an excellent practice for beginners. It allows the student the time to uncover the unique benefits of the individual poses without worrying about keeping up with a flow-based class.

Similar to our Restorative yoga offerings, Yin yoga is excellent for beginners who want to spend some time exploring the fundamentals of each pose and those recovering from illness or injury and for those looking to ELONGATE their muscles. Suitable for all levels and experience.

Vinyasa Yoga

Vinyasa yoga is one of the most popular styles of yoga practiced in Western yoga studios today. A Vinyasa yoga practice connects individual poses or “asanas” with deep breaths or “pranayama” in a series of flowing sequences of movement with beautiful transitions from one pose to the next.

Designed to progressively open the body, each sequence in a Vinyasa yoga class builds upon the previous, evolving into deeper, more advanced postures as the practice unfolds. Resetting “vinyasas,” are a standard series of poses that transition the yogi back to their home base pose: Downward Facing Dog.

Typical components of a Vinyasa yoga class include a combination of standing, seated poses, twists, balancing postures, forward folds, inversions, back bends and core strengthening. Some classes might offer themes, guided meditation, chanting, or breathwork, and all classes end in a relaxing Corpse Pose or “Savasana.”

Vinyasa yoga can be practiced at any level, tempo or temperature. Yogis can expect to experience increased flexibility, strength, stability, and overall calmness and clarity.

Hatha Yoga

Traditionally, Hatha yoga is yoga that pairs poses ("asanas") with breathing techniques ("pranayama"). Essentially, many of the yoga styles that are popular in the U.S.—like Ashtanga, Restorative, Vinyasa, etc.—fall under the umbrella of Hatha.

Hatha yoga focuses on poses and breathing at a slower, more deliberate pace than power yoga or Vinyasa. The slower speed of Hatha yoga, provides a benefit to both beginner and advanced students, allowing muscles to loosen and allowing the student to get deeper into the poses.

Hatha classes may include some transitions, guiding the student from one pose to the next like in Vinyasa or students may be quided to transition out of the pose to a resting pose, such as Child's Pose, before being guided into the next pose.

Most Hatha classes will include relaxing music and may include meditation before resting in Savasana.

Our Classes

Beginner Yoga

When we say "Beginner", we mean "BEGINNER"! This class is guided in a way that a new yogi/yogini can unroll their mat and feel comfortable to start their yoga journey and practice. This class will include some standing poses and lots of sitting poses and modifications.

Sanctuary Vinyasa All Levels

You will flow in this class from posture to posture with appropriate cues and guidance to take the full expression or to modify as you listen to your own body.

Sanctuary Vinyasa All Levels-HEATED

Expect to sweat in this class, as breath-to- movement takes you from one posture to the next in a balanced and blissful practice.