Best Yoga Studios in Redwood City

Ananda Temple Teaching Center Yoga Center has been providing spiritual support for clients in Redwood City and nearby communities for over 50 years. The center offers in-person and online classes for chair yoga flow, gentle yoga, and yoga postures. It also provides a raja yoga immersion and a Kriya yoga initiation. Known as the "father of the intentional communities movement," founder Swami Kriyananda established the first of the nine Ananda communities in 1968, providing a supportive environment where people live, work, and worship together.

California Yoga Center has been serving customers in the metro area of Redwood City since 1980. The studio provides workshops and yoga classes, such as pranayama, good sleep yoga, and restorative and Nidra yoga. It also offers back care yoga classes for clients with back conditions, including scoliosis, sciatica, upper back and neck tightness, and disc disease. Its team of instructors teaches asana classes for advanced, continuing, beginners, and intermediate students. The founding director, Elise Miller, has been teaching yoga since 1973.

Serving Redwood City and the surrounding areas, Hot Yoga Plus offers a Bikram yoga series of 26-posture exercises—a practice that targets every area of the body to maintain optimum health and function. Some of these exercises include standing deep breathing, eagle pose, standing separate leg head to knee pose, triangle pose, and full locust pose. All teachers at Hot Yoga Plus are encouraged to continue their education and maintain their own yoga practice.

Located in Redwood City, Peacebank is a yoga studio that offers indoor, outdoor, and virtual classes. Its instructors guide students through different types of practices, such as barreYoga, coreFlow, vinyasa flow, and Yin yoga. They also offer prenatal and postnatal classes for both experienced yogis and first-timers. Peacebank is a Certified California Green Business, and it hosts charity events for numerous organizations. It received the Climate Magazine Best Fitness Studio award in 2018 and 2019.

Saal Wellness Project offers Redwood City a medically guided yoga program developed by Dr. Jeff Saal and his daughter, Nicole Saal Miller. This program attempts to link the gap between physicians and yoga instructors. The classes can be individualized or customized based upon a medical diagnosis, including MRI results and limitations caused by musculoskeletal or medical conditions. Nicole combines her 10 years of experience as a yoga instructor with her master's degree in Education.

Established in the fall of 2018, Spiritual Alignment is a yoga studio serving clients in Redwood City. It is an open community that offers in-person and online yoga classes. Its classes include Hatha, yin, restorative, and vinyasa flow. Its yin yoga practice aims to develop increased mental focus and provide muscle tension release. President and CEO Shakti Sharma is a meditation teacher and a breathwork facilitator. Sharma handles private yoga sessions, helping individuals understand alignment and gain confidence.

StretchWorks is a wellness center that serves clients in Redwood City. It offers private sessions and group yoga classes for beginners and athletes who want to improve their flexibility and physical fitness. The center also specializes in teaching resistance stretching to students looking to relieve stress and achieve a better sense of well-being. Founder Tom Longo has been teaching resistance flexibility for more than 25 years. He underwent training under the guidance of resistance flexibility creator Bob Cooley.

Studio Rincon is a yoga studio that caters to clients in Redwood City. Its goal consists of helping people maximize their benefits at the center. In line with its commitment to wellness, the studio offers workshops to everyone regardless of age. It teaches meditation, inversions, yin yoga, arm balancing, Chinese medicine, and nutrition. Its classes are designed to encourage love of wellness, fitness, fun, and music. Instructor Kathy Petrin has 500 hours of yoga training certification.

Yoga Health Center is a family-owned fitness studio that serves clients in Redwood City. It offers in-studio, outdoor, and live-streaming yoga classes that include Vinyasa flow, Iyengar, and prenatal yoga. Yoga Health Center accommodates all clients regardless of their age and abilities. The CJW Architecture-designed boutique studio has open wood beam ceilings with windows, lobby reception areas, and a climate-controlled area for hot yoga. It has been helping clients in achieving strength, flexibility, and balance since 1996.

Yoga is Youthfulness, also known as YIY, is a yoga studio that offers services to the residents of Redwood City and the neighboring areas. Some of the classes it conducts are ashtanga, vinyasa, Iyengar, and pranayama yoga, as well as meditation. Co-founder Joseph Hentz has been practicing yoga for more than 20 years. He opened the studio in 1999 after he personally achieved greater self-awareness, resilience, and a healthier mind and body because of yoga.

Established in 2003, Yoga of Los Altos is a yoga studio that serves the residents of Redwood City and nearby communities. Its instructors offer multiple yoga styles, such as Hatha, Vinyasa, restorative, Pilates, and introductory yoga classes. They also host classes for pregnant mothers and corporate employees. Through the studio's website, clients can reserve a slot for indoor, outdoor, and virtual yoga classes. For four consecutive years, YOLA has won The People's Choice Award for Best Yoga Studio from the Daily News.

YogaSource serves Redwood City and caters to students at any level. It teaches a variety of yoga styles, including vinyasa, yin, restorative, power, and heated yoga. It also provides yoga sculpt, Pilates, barre, and core-based classes. YogaSource was inducted into the Palo Alto Hall of Fame in 2017 for topping in the yoga studio category for five consecutive years. Since its founding in 1994, the facility's team has grown into 42 instructors offering over 70 classes weekly.