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Experience the transformative power of yoga at the YMCA! Our yoga classes cater to all levels, promoting physical strength, flexibility, and mental clarity. Led by experienced instructors, our sessions offer a welcoming environment for relaxation and rejuvenation. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced practitioner, join us at the YMCA to enhance your well-being through the practice of yoga.
Our yoga classes will help you develop flexibility, strength and balance. By emphasizing symmetry of body and mind, classes will improve your body awareness, helping you live more comfortably.
YMCA Yoga Offerings
AOA Chair Yoga
AOA Chair Yoga at Carls Family YMCA
Move your whole body through a complete series of seated and standing yoga poses. Chair support is offered to safely perform postures to increase flexibility, balance, and range of movement. Restorative breathing exercises and a final relaxation will promote stress reduction and mental clarity.
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Chair Yoga
Chair Yoga at Birmingham Family YMCA
Chair yoga will offer an approachable and relaxed class setting for members. All poses and movements will be done in a seated position, and the instructor will focus on breathing, flexibility, and range of motion exercises. The class will encompass mind, body, and spirit and will leave you feeling refreshed for your day ahead!
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Chair Yoga at Macomb Family YMCA
This class is a unique Yoga style that adapts yoga positions and poses through creative use of a chair. The chair replaces the Yoga mat and becomes an extension of the body. Chair Yoga is suitable for all ages, fitness levels and physical conditions.
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Chair Yoga at South Oakland Family YMCA
Move your whole body through a complete series of seated and standing yoga poses. Chair support is offered to safely perform postures to increase flexibility, balance, and range of movement. Restorative breathing exercises and a final relaxation will promote stress reduction and mental clarity. Please bring your own towel and we encourage you to bring your own equipment.
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Core & Yoga
Core & Yoga at Birmingham Family YMCA
Class begins with 15 minutes of core exercises and transitions to 45 minutes of gentle mat yoga, with seated and standing stretches.
A strong core is the foundation to creating stability through our entire body and yoga helps to reduce stress and increases strength and flexibility.
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Gentle Yoga
Gentle Yoga at South Oakland Family YMCA
Over time poor movement, injury, and stationary positions cause our tissues to change & shorten, often resulting in decreased mobility. Mobility class combines movement therapy, soft tissue work with static stretching & stability work to unlock range of motion & improve positioning.
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Hatha Yoga
Hatha Yoga at Carls Family YMCA
An ancient spiritual practice that involves meditation and focused breathing while an individual moves through a series of stylized posture. In this class you will move with the rhythm of breath which will calm the mind.
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Power Yoga
Power Yoga at Birmingham Family YMCA
With a dynamic, fast paced, and energetic approach to yoga, this class focuses on building strength and balance. Prepare to work up a sweat while advancing your yoga practice. Light weights are used, but optional.
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Slow Flow Yoga
Slow Flow Yoga at Birmingham Family YMCA
Yoga with a strong emphasis on alignment, moving in a mindful manner with the breath at a slow to moderate pace. Poses are held long enough to adjust toward optimal alignment. Some poses are more challenging, but all are taught with modifications and props to make them more accessible to all levels of experience.
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Vinyasa Yoga
Vinyasa Yoga at Macomb Family YMCA
A Vinyasa class consists of breath-synchronized movements that connect to each other in order to create a flow. In contrast to the more athletic, intense style of Ashtanga, Vinyasa emphasizes the link between body movements, along with the powerful use of the breath.
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Vinyasa Yoga at South Oakland Family YMCA
(Intermediate-Advanced) A rhythmic, flowing, and dynamic practice that includes connecting the breath with movement and is structed around building mindfulness into one’s yoga practice.
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Vinyasa Yoga-Holiday
Vinyasa Yoga-Holiday at South Oakland Family YMCA
(Intermediate-Advanced) A rhythmic, flowing, and dynamic practice that includes connecting the breath with movement and is structed around building mindfulness into one’s yoga practice.
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Weekend Zen Yoga
Weekend Zen Yoga at Macomb Family YMCA
Functional Yoga
Functional Yoga is a fun, healthy, strengthening asana practice. It targets bone density and range of motion The class is all levels, working around injuries and special health considerations
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Yin Yoga
Yin Yoga at Carls Family YMCA
In a yin class, students open into the passive energy of the body by holding poses for several minutes. Yin often feels stress-relieving, meditative, and rejuvenating. It is great for anyone with stiffness in the shoulders, hips, or lower back, and is appropriate for all levels of students.
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Yin Yoga at South Oakland Family YMCA
Yin yoga is a deep, soft, yet challenging practice that focuses on deeper, longer stretching and holding postures to help open the lower back, hips and sacrum. This guided flowing class helps work with the posture to open and heal sciatica, lower back and hip muscles and joints.
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Yin Yoga Stretch and Balance
Yin Yoga Stretch and Balance at Farmington Family YMCA
Yin Yoga is a deep, restorative, yet challenging practice that focuses on deeper, longer stretching and holding postures to help open the lower back, hips and sacrum. With add stretch and balance to help restore the body.
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Yoga
Yoga at Birmingham Family YMCA
Gentle Yoga: Yoga with a strong emphasis on alignment, moving in a mindful manner with the breath at a slow to moderate pace. Poses are held long enough to adjust toward optimal alignment. Some poses are more challenging, but all are taught with modifications and props to make them more accessible to all levels of experience.
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Yoga at Downriver Family YMCA
An ancient spiritual practice that involves meditation and focused breathing while an individual moves through a series of stylized posture. In this class you will move with the rhythm of breath which will calm the mind.
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Yoga at South Oakland Family YMCA
Yoga – Please bring your own mat and towel. This class employs the most widely practiced form of yoga, Hatha. Hatha yoga refers to a set of physical exercises (known as asanas or postures), and sequences of asanas, designed to align your skin, muscles, and bones. Best for beginners, in this class students will perform poses one at a time with a “rest” in between. More experienced students will be equally challenged. Hatha yoga helps you to develop strength and flexibility, as you bring attention to breath, which helps to calm and to focus the mind.
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Yoga (Slow Flow)
Yoga (Slow Flow) at Boll Family YMCA
Yoga Slow Flow is an all-levels yoga focused on foundational poses that improves your mind body connection and breath awareness through fluid and intentional movements that strengthen and relax. (Equipment provided.)
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Yoga (Vinyasa)
Yoga (Vinyasa) at Boll Family YMCA
A fully guided morning class with a focus on support, alignment, flexibility, and strength. This class is generally slow – medium paced while still integrating the flow of a vinyasa-style class. (Blocks, mats, and props provided.)
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Yoga-Holiday
Yoga-Holiday at South Oakland Family YMCA
Yoga – Please bring your own mat and towel. This class employs the most widely practiced form of yoga, Hatha. Hatha yoga refers to a set of physical exercises (known as asanas or postures), and sequences of asanas, designed to align your skin, muscles, and bones. Best for beginners, in this class students will perform poses one at a time with a “rest” in between. More experienced students will be equally challenged. Hatha yoga helps you to develop strength and flexibility, as you bring attention to breath, which helps to calm and to focus the mind.
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Yoga Flow
Yoga Flow at Farmington Family YMCA
Move through the Asanas using breath, flowing in and out of the posture or lingering to savor the moment.
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Yoga Foundations II
Yoga Foundations II at Boll Family YMCA
Yoga Foundations II is a transformative yoga experience building on basic yoga principles for strength, balance, and flexibility with a focus on creating a sustainable intermediate practice. All levels welcome.
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