Please Do…
Hydrate, before, during and after class. Come to class fully hydrated and drink lots of water after class to replenish lost fluids from your yoga practice. Did we mention HYDRATE? We can’t emphasize this enough. In hot yoga, you can sweat up to a liter and a half of water (that’s a couple of pounds of water weight) in a class and it needs replacement. So drink lots of water BEFORE you come to class and as needed during class. Then go ahead and drink some more.
Bring your water bottles (at least one liter) to class. (You can bring your own or purchase water at the reception). The teacher will tell you when water breaks are during the class. Try to refrain from drinking water in between the water breaks.
Be quiet and respectful of others in the yoga room. Our lobby and locker areas are meant to be places of social interaction, please stay as long as you want. However the yoga room is intended to be a quiet place, so please enter and leave quietly.
Wear comfortable clothing. Shorts, leggings, t-shirts, tank tops, sport bras, bathing suits, etc. Men usually wear shorts and t-shirts or go shirtless. Remember it is quite warm in the room and cotton clothing tends to absorb sweat.
Bring your own mat and towel (yoga rug) or you can rent a yoga mat and a towel at the reception. The yoga carpet/towel goes over the sticky yoga mat. Some people bring a beach towel to use in place of a yoga rug. We also sell mats and rugs.
If there are mirrors, focus on your own reflection in the mirror and direct your mind within. Leave the outside world thoughts outside the yoga room and rest your mind (i.e., focus it on your yoga practice and your breathing). Try to learn to live with your sweat instead of constantly wiping. Wiping just causes you to sweat more. Your sweat is your body working to keep you cool. Embrace it.
Try to stay in the room for the duration of the entire class. Come down into child’s pose or savasana if you need to rest, but please try not to leave the room except in cases of illness or other emergency. This isn’t to torture you, this is keep everyone focused and in the present.
Be on time out of respect for your fellow students and their yoga experience. It is disruptive to have students entering after the start of class. Due to the fact that we are a small yoga studio and for security purposes, we lock the doors to the studio at the start of class. Ideally, you will come 10 minutes early. If this is your first class, please come 15 minutes early. Please sign in at the reception.
Talk to your fellow yogis/yoginis. This is your community. You can pop in an just do a yoga class, sure, but yoga is about connection. Smile, introduce yourself, say hello to others. You will be surprised how this will change your perspective on class and enhance your community by participating in it.
Please don’t…
Bring your cell phone, PDA or pager into class. If you are an emergency medical personnel, put your pager or phone on vibrate and place them under the corner of your yoga mat. Otherwise, please try to keep yoga as a time just for you.
Wear shoes or socks in the yoga room. Yoga is done barefoot. We have lockers and cubbyholes to store your socks and shoes until after class.
Wear perfume or scented lotions or oils. Some of your fellow yogis may be sensitive to these smells.
Ask questions during class. We will be more than happy to answer all your questions before or after class.
Come to class late or leave early. A yoga class is like a bubble. People coming in and out disrupts that energy. If you know you are going to leave early, please tell the teacher in advance. If you are tired or out of breath, lay down on your mat, the whole class if necessary. Just being in the room and breathing allows you to experience the energy. Bit by bit, you will get stronger.
Talk in the yoga room. Our lobby, reception, hallways, and locker rooms are social areas to meet and talk with the YogaOne instructors and your fellow yogis, and we encourage you to do so. The yoga room on the other hand is a place for focus and meditation, so please be quiet and respect the space of your fellow yogis. The yoga room is a quiet space. If you arrive early, rather than sitting around, picking your toes and staring at the ceiling, consider closing your eyes and breathing (and in flow/forrest classes adding wrist stretches). Your practice begins when you walk in the door to the room.
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More Classes Our Featured Classes
Hot (90 minutes)
This is the core hot yoga class at YogaOne. This class forms the building blocks for a yogi’s/yogini’s practice of yoga. It is YogaOne's hatha yoga sequence practiced in a hot room in order to allow the body to warm up quickly to deepen the practice and to maximize the detoxifying, cleansing nature of the postures in the series.
This sequence was created taking what our instructors learned from a diversed range of yoga styles and is designed to provide a full workout for the entire body and leaves the student exhausted but invigorated. There are brief resting postures between the active poses. This class is for beginners through advanced students. Hot, 102-105 degrees F, 50-60% humidity. (BEGINNER FRIENDLY)
Flow aka Vinyasa Flow (60 or 90 minutes)
This is a more active class inspired by Ashtanga, Power and Forrest Yoga (and other yoga styles depending upon the instructor) with continuous movement where one flows from one posture to the next without rest in-between. Vinyasa literally means "to link"; movements are linked one to the next and breath is linked to movement.
This style of yoga is a great compliment to our Hot classes. Some previous yoga experience is generally recommended for these classes, but other than Flow 2 classes (which is for intermediate to advanced students), all flow classes are all levels. Warm, but not hot, 85-90 degrees F. (BEGINNERS TO FLOW ARE ENCOURAGED TO START IN OUR WEEKLY FLOW 101 CLASS).
