Best Yoga Studios in Santa Cruz

Bali Yoga is a yoga studio that caters to residents in Santa Cruz. The studio offers yoga classes in the Iyengar style, which are supervised by instructors through virtual and in-person settings. It offers Yoga in Bali, a retreat program providing daily yoga experiences in Indonesia. Ann Barros, the studio's owner, has more than four decades of experience teaching and managing yoga workshops. She has been mentioned in the book "Eat, Pray, Love" and holds a bachelor's degree in dance.

Breath+Oneness is a yoga studio that serves clients residing in Santa Cruz and its surrounding communities. It offers both in-studio and online classes, and teaches vinyasa yoga for all levels, gentle yoga, outdoor qi gong, chi kinetic Pilates, and hatha and yin yoga. Additionally, it provides various events and workshops. Breath+Oneness is composed of 25 teachers and has more than 49 weekly classes. Moreover, the establishment is a family-owned studio operated by the mother-and-daughter tandem of Leslie Warren and Carrie Arlah Burr.

Coastline Pilates is a studio operating in Santa Cruz. It offers a wide range of in-person and virtual classes including Pilates & yoga fusion, Qi Gong, Pilates mat, and Pilates circuit with group equipment. Customized private and duet sessions are also available. The instructors utilize the Yamuna body rolling for different fitness levels to stimulate the bones and reeducate the muscles. The studio's owner, Abigail Allen, took up dance classes and sports when she was young then began training Pilates, yoga, and group exercises.

Estrella Collective is a private studio that offers yoga classes for practitioners of all levels in the Santa Cruz metro. Its instructors teach Buti yoga, which combines plyometrics, yoga, and tribal dance. They use the spiral structure technique that facilitates toning of the body and breaking down of emotional barriers. Additionally, they have a Wu-Tang yoga class that utilizes a combination of classic Wu-Tang tracks and hip-hop playlists, making the session interactive and dynamic. Owner Tara Murphy has been practicing yoga for over 13 years.

Hot Elevation Studios is a yoga studio that offers more than 100 classes each week to the residents of Santa Cruz and the surrounding metro areas. It provides a number of different sessions, including yoga sculpt, hot Pilates, barre, TRX, and high-intensity interval training (HIIT). Teacher training programs are also available to those who wish to become yoga teachers. These programs are taught by experienced yogis who have been practicing for more than 30 years.

Hotsource Yoga is a fitness studio in Aptos that serves the metro and the surrounding communities, including Santa Cruz. Members can book individual sessions or attend group classes, such as hot yoga, hot Pilates sculpt, hot yoga fusion, and warm yin. Studio owner Nicole Duke has been practicing for more than 20 years. She has completed a number of teacher training programs, including a 9-week Bikram yoga teacher training in Palm Springs. She also trains thousands of new yoga instructors across the United States.

Pacific Edge is a fitness facility that serves Santa Cruz and the surrounding metro areas. It provides an avenue for clients to attend yoga classes and enjoy rock climbing sessions. Principal yoga instructor Sandy Thorpe has been practicing for more than 20 years. She has conducted over 4,000 classes in her career and has experience teaching yoga at corporate sites, such as Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Apple. Additionally, Pacific Edge hosts several meet-ups for LGBTQ+ climbers in the community.

Pleasure Point Yoga is open to clients located in Santa Cruz and its surrounding areas. It holds different types of yoga classes, such as vinyasa flow, pranayama, restorative yoga, and trapeze yoga. It also conducts different dance classes, including Zumba, cardio funk, tropical fusion, and urban dance cardio glow. In addition to its studio sessions, it also holds livestream and outdoor classes. Pleasure Point Yoga supports the healthy healing and growth of individuals, welcoming all bodies and all ages in its community.

Santa Cruz Yoga offers different types of classes, including restorative and gentle yoga, to cater to individuals coming from different lifestyles, conditions, and intentions. These include foundational vinyasa, yin and restorative yoga with gong meditation, yoga basics flow, slow flow, and candlelit yin restore. In addition, the studio has a Mysore program, which is a self-led, teacher-supported class that aids individuals who practice the Ashtanga method. Santa Cruz Yoga holds both in-studio and live-stream versions of its classes.

SPENGA is a yoga studio that serves clients in the Santa Cruz area. It offers a variety of yoga classes that are designed to address key health components such as balance, strength, relaxation, flexibility, and movement patterns. Sessions consist of 20 minutes of spinning, 20 minutes of strength training, and another 20 minutes of yoga. Customers can also purchase sweatshirts, accessories, performance-based beverages, and essential oils from its shop. Its owner, Cassia Bloom, has over 30 years of practice in the fitness industry.

The Center For Healing offers a wide array of yoga classes to learners and practitioners of all levels from Santa Cruz. Its yoga asana classes aim to bring alignment, balance, breath, and relaxation to students. It is available for those with special health considerations, such as pregnancy, illness, or injuries. Resident instructor, Makaya Roma, incorporates her years of experience as a chiropractor and yoga teacher to choose a sequence of yoga postures specific to the needs of her students.

Toadal Fitness is a club that has been serving Santa Cruz since 1996. With a family-friendly approach, the fitness studio offers indoor, outdoor, online live, and recorded yoga classes. It has an infrared sauna, bathrooms, and full locker rooms. Potential clients may also join other programs, such as high-intensity interval training, precision physical therapy, Pilates reformer, mixed martial arts, and Toadal cross-training. This club was established by husband and wife, Christophe and Cecile, under its first name Frog Fitness, which celebrates Christophe's native origin.

Village Yoga Santa Cruz is an independently owned and operated studio that has been serving local clients since 2001. The studio offers different variations of the hot yoga series and flow, restorative, and yin & zen classes. Nancy Norby's Norby YogaBARRE is a fusion of barre method exercises and yoga strength training. Studio co-owners Amy Mihal and Sally Adams have over 20 years of experience with yoga. Through yoga, Amy was able to get off daily asthma medications and Sally improved in her dance practice.

Yoga 9 Boulder Creek is a studio that has been offering yoga classes in Sta. Cruz since 2017. It provides heated and non-heated rooms, full-length mirrors, and padded floors. The sessions that need heated room temperature include hot yoga fusion, hot 26, high-intensity interval workout, and Vimana Fusion classes. The studio encourages increasing the temperature for sessions to allow the body to warm up, prevent injury, and have deeper asanas. The studio also offers yoga and mediation sessions to seniors and caregivers.

Yoga Center Santa Cruz brings over 33 years of experience. Its programs incorporate the Iyengar yoga technique, which focuses on alignment, strength, balance, and flexibility. It has a range of classes for beginners and seasoned adults, from restorative yoga to meditation sessions. It also holds Pranayama yoga-based workshops that teach breathwork techniques. One of its instructors, Kofi Busi, has been teaching Iyengar yoga for over 40 years and frequently travels to India to teach the yoga technique.