Best Yoga Studios in Birmingham

2022

Birmingham Tree House

Birmingham Tree House is a "bed and yoga" place that offers a unique experience in hospitality and healing in the Birmingham area. It is a dog-friendly five-guestroom bed and breakfast with private baths designed with unique themes to provide a relaxing wellness retreat. Yoga and pilates classes are available weekly both in person and virtually. Its staff also offers private and group yoga classes, as well as open studios available for practice.

Birmingham Yoga

• Teach Training
• Ashtanga

Birmingham Yoga supports the local metro's yoga community through its classes, community partnerships, and teacher training. Its practice includes traditional ashtanga, mysore, kundalini, vinyasa flow, and yin yoga. Instructor Akasha Ellis, who has been a yoga instructor for over two decades, founded the studio in 2009. His co-owner, Heather Sullivan, began teaching in 2015. She helps individuals recovering from eating and substance use disorders through yoga, meditation, and mindfulness classes. Birmingham Yoga has partnered with Yoga Unbound and Trini Foundation.

Blissful Heights

Blissful Heights in Birmingham offers a yoga therapy program that aims to ease body aches and pains through targeted movements that also encourage flexibility. Blissful Heights owner Denise Ginsburg has professional certifications for yoga therapy, including yoga for depression and anxiety, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, and more than 2,000 hours of yoga certification training. Ginsburg uses a transformative approach to yoga therapy that encourages an emotional release, using it as a healing tool for many of her patients.

Body Shop Yoga

Body Shop Yoga is a yoga studio in Birmingham that offers ongoing yoga instruction for fitness and special topics series and workshops. Located in the old Ryan Automotive building, the facility has been transformed into a serene space for yoga practitioners by founder Beth Ryan and her collaborator, Julie Waters since 2015. It offers a variety of yoga classes and lessons for every skill level and purpose such as community yoga, vinyasa flow yoga, corrective yoga, and even belly dancing.

Conscious Body Healing Arts Center

Conscious Body Healing Arts Center is a business created by yoga instructors, counselors, and energy workers servicing the Birmingham community. It offers a wide range of bodywork sessions, including private yoga classes. Each personalized session is composed of different methods, like breathing techniques and alignment principles, depending on the customers' needs. Specialty classes are also offered, such as restorative yoga, yoga for stress relief, and spoiled rotten yoga. Additionally, the company has Thai yoga massage therapy services and Reiki sessions.

Core Strong

Core Strong is a yoga studio that serves in Birmingham and caters to clients wanting peace of mind, fitness, or corrective exercise for their bodies. It helps those suffering from movement or posture problems and uses specialized equipment like spine correctors and high ladder barrels. The studio's teachers handle classical Pilates and have over 800+ hours of instructional experience. Its previous and current clients come from all ages and backgrounds such as senior citizens, dancers, and those with eating disorders.

CoreVibes Studio

• Hot Yoga

Established in 2001, CoreVibes Studio is a fully equipped Pilates studio serving Birmingham and its surrounding areas. It offers group, private, and semi-private sessions of yoga, whole body vibrational training, halotherapy, and Pilates. Its team of instructors holds certifications from Asheville Yoga Center, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, and Z-Health Performance. Founder Lynne Ellen Kershaw is among Alabama's first Gyrotonic instructors. She earned her Stott Pilates certification and Pilates Method Alliance Gold certification in 2001 and 2005 respectively.

Earthkeeper Yoga

• Pre Natal

Earthkeeper Yoga provides classes to clients in Birmingham. It offers chair yoga for individuals with limited mobility who want to learn breathing techniques, meditation, and stretches to improve their minds and bodies. It also caters to kids between five to 12 years old who wish to join yoga classes. One of its teachers, Mary Ann Somers, specializes in trauma-sensitive yoga practice. Earthkeeper Yoga was founded in 2017 with the aim to combine the community and nature through yoga classes.

Embody Practice Center

Embody Practice Center offers a number of unique yoga classes and workshops to the communities of Birmingham, Alabama. Becca Impello, RYT200, is a certified yoga instructor and a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She has completed specific training in therapeutic yoga and pre-natal yoga, and works one-on-one with clients to address chronic and acute health concerns. She also leads yoga classes, therapeutic yoga workshops, and anatomy trainings, and offers Thai Yoga massage. Classes offered at Embody Practice Center include yoga for all levels, Gentle Yoga, Mindful Flow Yoga, Tai-ji Quan, Open Meditation, Flow and Reflect Yoga, Holistic Flow Yoga, Yoga Basics, Chair Yoga, and Yoga for Cancer Survivors.

Fly Yoga and Massage

• Private Lessons

Fly Yoga and Massage, located in Hayden, Alabama, specializes in yoga classes and massage therapies. R. Daniel Walker LMT, RYT, R-HYI, is a licensed massage therapist and certified yoga instructor. He believes in aligning mind, body, and soul, and giving his students tools to strengthen their body from the ground up. Daniel combines his understanding of CSV Yoga, kinesiology, and anatomy with a hands-on approach to help students work through challenging moments. Fly Yoga and Massage offers both Swedish massage and deep tissue massage, as well as Advanced Myofacial techniques. They also offer a variety of yoga classes for people of all skill levels, including Holy Yoga, which is designed for those seeking a deeper spiritual connection, and Core Strength Vinyasa (CSV).

Goat Yoga Bham

• Teach Training

Goat Yoga Bham is a yoga and fitness studio that serves clients in Birmingham and its surrounding areas. It provides its clients with an outdoor farm-style yoga training session along with the facility's goats. These animals are believed to be gentle in nature when surrounded by calm and focused individuals. Goat Yoga Bham also caters to various events and offers a tour of their facilities to families and home school groups. Goat Yoga Bham also carries a variety of merchandise courtesy of their online store. 

Kiva Hot Yoga

• Hot Yoga

Serving Birmingham, Kiva Hot Yoga is a Vestavia Hills-based business that offers a 26-postures class. Held in a 105-degree room, this class involves a sequence of 26 yoga poses that are modifiable according to one's needs, making it suitable for beginners and advanced students alike. Bikram and yin yoga classes are also offered at the studio. The business was named after a Native American gathering place called "Kiva" because its mission is to be a place where people come together to learn and support others.

pH Balanced Massage & Fitness Studio

pH Balanced Massage & Fitness Studio offers classes daily for a variety of yoga styles and personal fitness training. Located in Birmingham, Alabama, they offer both private and group sessions, all of which are hosted by certified and/or registered instructors. Founder Pam Hales specializes in a variety of disciplines, including yoga, Pilates, and personal training. Classes offered at pH Balanced Massage & Fitness Studio include Pilates, yoga, dance fitness, mellow yoga, chair yoga, Vibrant Vinyasa, and Buti yoga. In addition to believing wholeheartedly in the health benefits that yoga and fitness can provide, the instructors at pH Balanced Massage & Fitness Studio also believe in giving back to the community. They work closely with Sweet Om Alabama, an organization that brings yoga to underserved populations and promotes peace. Sweet Om Alabama, in conjunction with The Global Mala Project, represents the power a group of people can harness when “individual intentions unite for the same cause”. Sweet Om Alabama wishes to cultivate health and well-being by mobilizing the yoga community and providing easy access to the health benefits of yoga to those who otherwise lack such access.

Provision Studio

Located in Birmingham, Provision Studio is a yoga studio that offers small-impact exercises via its various fitness programs. It has classes for different needs, skills, and fitness levels, such as yoga and pilates, sculpt, bounce sculpt, and stretch. Provision Studio's goal is to provide its members with programs that can help them improve their balance and flexibility, cardiovascular health, and core strength; boost their immunity; tone their muscles; and refine their posture.

Pura Vida Healing Arts

Pura Vida Healing Arts is a yoga studio located in Birmingham, guided by yoga and meditation instructor Sunny Graydon. It offers a wide range of classes and services that aims to reintroduce the way of the healing arts. Some of these services include massage and bodywork, acutonics, sound therapy, energy healing, and chakra balancing. It also offers both weekly and monthly classes for Reiki and sound immersion, as well as Intuitive Living retreats. The studio has a YouTube channel of the same name.

The Yoga Circle

• Hot Yoga

The Yoga Circle provides classes to help improve the well-being of clients in Birmingham and the nearby areas. It specializes in helping beginners become aware of their bodies' movement, posture, and alignment by offering ashtanga, slow flow, a yin-vinyasa hybrid, and basic flow yoga classes. It also helps experienced yogis deepen their practice through sessions themed Intermediate Hot Soul and Yoga Circle Flow. One of its teachers, Stephen Fletcher, has been practicing yoga for nearly 20 years.

Thrive

Birmingham-based Thrive Pilates Studio, which opened in 2020, provides pilates, barre, and yoga classes. The studio houses five instructors, pilates equipment, and yoga mats which can also be used for barre mat exercises. Clients can choose between in-studio one-on-one lessons and group sessions. Additionally, those unable to visit the studio personally can choose to join virtual classes, which are done via Zoom and Youtube. Ally Leonard, one of its yoga instructors, attended yoga training in India during the summer of 2019.

Vestavia Yoga

• Private Lessons

Vestavia Yoga, based in Birmingham, is a studio that offers group classes and private sessions for practitioners of all levels. Vinyasa classes are facilitated by instructors who guide students to control their breathing while switching from one pose to another. Classes start with sun salutations followed by different posture techniques and more advanced steps like inversions and backbends. The studio also holds events and workshops where participants can practice selected yoga postures and meditation techniques. Vestavia Yoga's Sunday classes also help raise funds for local charities.