Building Fitness Through Yoga
Yoga, which means “union” or “harmony,” is an ancient philosophy originating in India more than 5,000 years ago. The practice of yoga integrates physical and mental exercises including postures, breathing techniques, mantra, yogic relaxation, and meditation, all of which stabilize, condition, and reward the mind and body. Though an ancient discipline, yoga’s continuing popularity today is a testament to its effectiveness at engaging the mind and the body, building self-awareness, and creating a strong, flexible body.At Club One, our comprehensive yoga program includes extensive group fitness classes that span the range of yoga styles, from gentle and meditative to fast paced and vigorous—from Yoga Basics to the more challenging practices of Vinyasa and Power Flow. We also offer customized one-on-one or semi-private personal training. All of our classes are taught by yoga instructors who bring to their practice extensive training, years of practical experience, and a passion for yoga. While yoga offers a great way to get fit, its benefits extend beyond exercise. It encourages mind-body awareness and promotes a sense of balance, equilibrium, and tranquility. It’s a philosophy of well-being that helps you become stronger, healthier, and more confident, both inside and outside Club One’s doors.
Whether you’re an exercise novice, a beginning yogi or yogini, a fitness enthusiast looking to try something new, or an elite athlete seeking a new physical challenge, we encourage you to try yoga—a physical challenge that unites the body, mind, and spirit. Enjoy!
Yoga Classes and Personal Training Options
Club One offers more than 30 weekly group fitness yoga classes per location geared to all levels of intensity and fitness. We also offer small group training sessions and workshops dedicated to specific areas of practice, allowing you to further develop your yoga skills.For those seeking more customized training, we offer one-on-one personal training or semi-private, “buddy” training with a dedicated yoga instructor geared specifically to your needs. Personal training is ideal for pregnant women or those with injuries, seasoned athletes wanting to incorporate yoga into their programs, or advanced yoga practitioners who want to delve deeper into a specific yoga style.
Club One Yoga Studios and Class Locations
All Club One locations offer comfortable, spacious, and well-lit group
fitness studios. Our dedicated yoga studio at Club One at Santana Row
is custom-heated.Club One offers yoga instruction at all locations. Contact the Club One near you for specific information on classes and schedules.
Why Choose Yoga?
Yoga offers a comprehensive physical workout that also engages the mind and the spirit. Consistent yoga practitioners develop greater body awareness, build strength, stamina, and flexibility, and become more mindful of the body-mind connection by linking breathing to physical movements.If you’re looking for an exercise program that also offers tools for spiritual growth and self-transformation, yoga may be the practice for you.
Among its many benefits, yoga:
- Strengthens and tones muscles
- Increases flexibility, agility, and range of motion
- Improves balance and coordination
- Increases core strength and stability
- Increases aerobic capacity and endurance
- Increases metabolism and energy
- Reduces stress and anxiety
- Increases circulation
- Brings balance and harmony to the body, mind, and spirit
- Instills physical confidence
Yoga Basics
An introductory yoga class designed with the novice in mind. It is also ideal for more advanced practitioners who prefer a basic approach to yoga. This class offers clear, direct instruction about postures, breathing, and meditation techniques. Yoga is taught as a system of health and fitness.
Power Yoga
Power Yoga is a rigorous workout that develops strength and flexibility through constant movement. This class is a Western interpretation of Ashtanga Yoga.
Gentle Yoga
This “intro to flow” class uses guided breathing with movement to stretch, strengthen, and relax the body and mind. The selected postures allow you to gain a deeper sense of mental focus, clarity, and relaxation.
Ashtanga Yoga
Ashtanga Yoga is a dynamic, vigorous practice that synchronizes movement and breath in a continuous flow of poses beginning with Sun Salutations. Intense internal heat creates a cleansing and purifying sweat. Ashtanga increases strength, stamina, flexibility, and mental focus. “Power Yoga” and most “Flow” styles are based on Ashtanga Yoga.
Power Flow Yoga
Power Flow Yoga has its roots in Ashtanga Yoga. It tends to be less structured than Ashtanga and allows the instructor to alter sequences and assign poses in response to students’ needs. Power Flow Yoga is a fast-paced class with poses that encourage alignment, flexibility, balance, strength, and cardiovascular endurance.
Flow Yoga
This class teaches sequences of flowing postures linked by the breath to detoxify, strengthen, and stretch the body. The selected yoga postures are carefully balanced to build strength and flexibility while releasing accumulated tension.
Iyengar Yoga
This practice focuses on the precise alignment of muscles, bones, and joints. Rather than moving quickly through the postures, poses are held longer, helping to develop mental focus while fostering deep relaxation. Iyengar incorporates the use of props and increases strength, endurance, and flexibility.
Hatha Yoga
Hatha Yoga is based on physical postures, deep breathing, mindfulness, and listening to the body. Traditional asana (postures) are held in accurate alignment. Emphasis is placed on core strength, flexibility, balance, concentration, and breath control.
Vinyasa Yoga
Vinyasa Yoga is a dynamic system of practicing asana. Asanas flow in a progressive series synchronized to the breath. Vinyasa is a strong practice that builds heat, endurance, flexibility, strength, and mental focus.
Yoga Challenge
Yoga Challenge explores classical Hatha postures in a heated room, which warms the muscles to allow for maximum stretching and helps detoxify the body through sweating. This, coupled with an emphasis on breathing, allows the body to move more deeply into the practice. Instructors create their own sequences with an emphasis on the rhythm of the class instead of the details of each posture.
Restorative Yoga
This class focuses on supportive poses that are restful and rejuvenating even for those who can’t perform many physical movements. Nourishing postures and simple meditation are used to renew body, mind, and spirit.
Open Yoga
Pre-class studio time reserved for yoga practice.
