yoga classes

We believe everyone should have access to yoga, and have priced it accordingly.

We offer:
• $10 classes.
    This covers most classes on the schedule.
• $5 Community Classes
    Marked on the schedule with ©.
• Pay What You Can
    Marked on the schedule with ¢.
• $95: 10-class card
    $5 off for students & seniors (with ID).
• $95: One month of unlimited classes
    $5 off for students & seniors.
• Workshops & multi-class series
    Price varies; see schedule below.

You're welcome to join any drop-in class anytime — no need to pre-register. Please arrive five to 10 minutes early. Bring a yoga mat; we also have a few to lend. Wear comfortable loose-fitting or stretchy clothing. For Forrest Yoga classes, we heat the room to 80 degrees, so we suggest you bring a towel and water.

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Workshops and Multi-week Series

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Drop-in Class Schedule

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Types of Classes

• Community Class (©): is a class offered at a $5 reduced rate, to support our community.
• Pay What You Can (¢): In recognition of the challenges of many in our community, these classes are an attempt to remove the financial barrier between students and their yoga practice. We trust that everyone will recognize the intention of this offering and pay to their ability.


• Ashtanga vinyasa yoga: is a system of yoga incorporating asana (postures), pranayama (breath work) and drishti (gaze). Ashtanga Basics will explore the postures in the ashtanga primary series sequence as well as the other aspects of the practice: breath, gaze, and vinyasa krama.
• African Dance with live African Drumming: will include traditional and contemporary dance styles (Bijagos, Balanta, Fula, and Manjaco) from Guinea Bissau. African Dance is a great way for people to enjoy themselves while having an amazing workout and learning a facet of culture from Guinea Bissau.
• Beginning Belly Dancing: In this delightful class, we will practice the basic vocabulary of Middle Eastern movement: isolations, shimmies, traveling, turns, beautiful arms, and finger cymbals. Includes improvisation and a simple choreography that we build upon each week.
• Break Dancing: If you have ever been curious about breaking (breakdance), this is your chance to get down! Come learn the truth about this complex, energetic dance form while sweating it out to funk and soul music. In this fun, invigorating class, you'll learn the pillars of breaking: toprock, drops, footwork, and freezes. No experience required; everyone is welcome. Each class will build on the previous one, so come to all four if you can.
• Forrest Yoga Basics: A slow-paced class with detailed alignment instruction and demonstration. Forrest yoga is intense, mindful yoga that builds flexibility and strength. This class is essential for beginners, while advanced students can use it to deepen their practice.
• Forrest Yoga Basics Series: Forrest Yoga is an intense, mindful practice that does not require strength or flexibility, but will build both. This four-class series is great for those new to yoga but is also an excellent opportunity for the experienced yogi to revisit and reinforce the basics. These slower paced classes include instruction and demonstration of Basic Moves that are vital to Forrest Yoga and will emphasize asana (posture) alignment, breath, and mindfulness. You will leave the series feeling strong, centered, and ready to move forward with your yoga practice.
• Forrest Yoga I: A moderately paced class with detailed alignment instruction and demonstration. Students should be familiar with Forrest Basics classes or have experience with another yoga style.
• Forrest Yoga II: Through asanas and breath work, this class tests limits and cultivates physical and emotional transformations. Students should be familiar with Forrest Basics classes or have experience with another yoga style.
• Forrest Yoga All Levels: .
• Gentle Vinyasa: Gentle Vinyasa yoga is an intuitive group class that features personal modifications and emphasizes integrating mind, body, spirit, and breath--all within a playful, safe environment. Students are encouraged to just "be," whether they are pushing their limits physically or allowing themselves to honor their current level of practice. Gentle Vinyasa yoga is a great way to transition from the weekend into the work-week. An integral part of this gentle Vinyasa yoga class is the practice of self-compassion. Students are encouraged to accept the beauty of their practice without needing to achieve anything other than coming into the present moment and truly experiencing it.
• Hatha Yoga: Explores the foundation postures of yoga through clear directions. Hatha classes promote strength, flexibility and balance without strain.
• Hoop Dancing: Spin your way to improved health and happiness with hoop dance! This adult series will teach you the fundamentals of hoop dance and plenty of mesmerizing tricks that you can incorporate into your own dance style. Strengthen your body as you learn to spin the hoop around your waist, chest, neck, hands, and legs. Improve your balance and coordination with off body moves, tosses, and isolations. This low impact exercise will have you burning calories and seriously strengthening your core. Let go, meditate and relieve stress as you discover your inner rhythm. Hoop dance is the perfect mind/body exercise for those who want to get fit and have fun!
• Kundalini Yoga: as taught by Yogi Bhajan is known as The Yoga of Awareness. It is the path of awakening our teacher within. This practice is based on yogic anatomy, being our 8 chakras, and our 10 energetic bodies. The space is opened and overseen by chanting the Adi Mantra (Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo) 3x, at the beginning of each class. This mantra summons the teacher within as well as the Masters of the lineage, and also provides protection to both the facilitator and student. This style of yoga is composed of precise series of movements called Kriyas, each one working on different aspects of our yogic anatomy and consciousness. Within, and in addition to the Kriya, a variety of pranayam (breath meditations and techniques), mudras (hand postures), and mantras (the repetition of sacred sounds) are included in the practice. Working with our energy in this way awakens and unlocks our (often dormant or stagnated) kundalini energy, which is based in our lower spine, and causes it to rise and circulate throughout the body, mind and spirit. KundaliniEnergy is our most potent form of creative energy, and working with it develops divine consciousness, enhances prosperity, and facilitates vast and profound transformation to all areas of one's life.
• Pilates: Focuses on the core muscles that balance the body, awareness of breath and alignment of the spine. Can help ease or prevent back pain. Studio 34 also offers private and semi-private sessions, with an array of specialized equipment. More information...
• Qi Gong: This Qi Gong class will be based on the seven animals and will help stretch and exercise tendons, muscles and the internal organs. Students will learn proper breathing and stances with some moving sets, some soft sets, and some hard Qi Gong. Qi Gong is great for stress relief and building mental focus.
• Tai Chi: Yang style tai chi, as brought to America by Professor Cheng Man Ch'ing is described as an internal, soft martial art. The form, consists of 37 postures that are performed at a slow, flowing pace. The movements are said to promote circulation, lung function, flexibility and strength. The regular practice of tai chi has benefits for many different facets of physical and mental health and general well-being. A beginners' class consists of simple warm up movements and then direct instruction of the progression of postures that make up the form. Instruction on the principles of tai chi is incorporated into the class, as tai chi is as much a philosophy as it is an exercise. The principles practiced in the form have applications throughout daily life. Although the form has only 37 postures, it is not something that can be learned in six or eight short weeks. But progress can be made from the first few weeks, and the benefits accrue with time.
• Teen Yoga Donation Class: A yoga class designed for teens ages thirteen to eighteen. This class provides an introduction to yoga poses that will help increase overall strength and flexibility. Mediation and breathwork techniques are also incorporated to de-stress the body and calm the mind. The informationis delivered in a fun, upbeat way for teenagers and class includes a short question and answer at the end. Suggested $3 donation.
• Very Beginner Yoga: This Community Class is for the tentative student with limited mobility due to physical, medical or lifestyle circumstances. You don't need to be able to touch your toes; you just have to be willing to try.
• Vinyasa Yoga: Uses the flow between poses to cultivate physical and emotional openings.

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Work Exchange

Want to trade work for yoga and Pilates classes? Send us an email. Our work-exchange students pick their time slots using our online scheduler.

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Further reading

• The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is one of yoga's foundation texts. This collection of aphorisms, philosophy, and methods, dating to the second century B.C., helped give rise to the yoga practice we know today. This public-domain translation was provided by Project Gutenberg.