Best Yoga Studios in New Orleans

2021

Ashtanga Yoga Room

• Pre Natal

Ashtanga Yoga Room is a yoga studio operating in New Orleans and the surrounding areas. The studio offers Ashtanga yoga classes in the Mysore style. It helps clients manage their movement, gaze, internal energy locks, and breath. It offers provides restorative yoga sessions to reduce pain and increase joint mobility. The studio hosts events focused on chakra immersion. Melanie Fawer formed Ashtanga Yoga Room in 2001 and has been practicing yoga for over 20 years.

Balance Yoga & Wellness

• Ashtanga

Balance Yoga & Wellness in mid-city New Orleans provides high-quality yoga instruction in a safe, inclusive, non-competitive environment where all types of students can learn and grow. Balance Yoga & Wellness offers introductory yoga classes, beginners Ashtanga yoga, Mysore style yoga, Vinyasa yoga, restorative classes, align and refine classes, and community classes. Services also include prenatal yoga and wellness, 200-hour yoga teacher training, private yoga instruction, and wellness services including nutrition coaching, Ayurveda, and acupuncture.

Bliss Body

Established in 2015, Bliss Body in New Orleans is a wellness boutique that offers a variety of health and wellness classes in a state-of-the-art facility with the latest equipment. Massage, facials, and assisted stretching complement yoga and Pilates classes. Yoga programs include classes for beginners as well as aerial, prenatal, weight management, and meditation. Instructors guide Pilates students on the Reformer, Pilates mat work, and Barre. Bliss Body is committed to creating a safe, warm, and friendly environment and offering transformative instruction.

Free To Be Power Yoga

• Power Yoga

Free To Be Power Yoga in New Orleans and Morgan City is a Baptiste Yoga Affiliate Studio. Classes are adaptable and accessible to all levels, emphasizing strength, flexibility, and balance. Free To Be Power Yoga offers Power Vinyasa Yoga, a heated power Vinyasa class, community classes, Power Yoga Basics, and Free To Be Kids Yoga classes for ages two to seven and eight to thirteen. Free To Be Power Yoga also provides teacher training and hosts special workshops and events.

Freret Street Yoga

Freret Street Yoga in New Orleans offers high-quality, down-to-earth yoga instruction in a friendly and serene environment. Freret Street Yoga helps students build strength, increase energy, reduce stress, relieve back pain, and experience calmness of mind. All levels of classes include Freret Street Flow, Core-Centric Yoga, Yoga After Dark, Prenatal Yoga, Yoga for Teens, Happy Hour Yoga, and Restorative Yoga. Freret Street Yoga also offers workshops and retreats, teacher training, and an online video class library for students to practice on their own time outside the studio.

Higherpower Cycle/Yoga

Higherpower Cycle/Yoga opened in 2014 in Mid-City New Orleans and also has a downtown location. Higherpower is the only combination cycle, yoga, TRX studio in New Orleans. Classes focus on physical health and mental well-being and include Bicycling Buddha, hp Power Yoga, hp Cycling, Candlelight Yin Yoga, and TRX E.P.I.C. Higherpower bikes are top-of-the-line machines equipped with a computer console that displays power, heart rate, cadence, and gearing. Higherpower Cycle/Yoga combines rigorous physical activity with yoga and meditation.

Love Light Sacred Space

• Private Lessons

Established in 2019, Love Light Sacred Space is a spiritual healing and yoga studio in New Orleans. It offers yoga and meditation training classes, specialized healing sessions with sound, andenergy healing. Its mind-body wellness program is available for small groups and private classes. Tara Engeran-Schroeder, the founder, began teaching yoga and meditation in 1997 and has spent the past three decades immersed in wellness, energy healing, yoga, and consciousness studies. She also holds a doctorate degree in Metaphysics and Holistic Healing.

Swan River Yoga

• Restorative Yoga

Swan River Yoga serves the New Orleans community from two studio locations in Mid-City Mandir and the Arabi Community Center. Classes include Swan River Yoga's fusion class, AcroYoga, Ageless Yoga, Align & Refine, Anusara Yoga, Ashtanga, Jivamukti Yoga, Kirtan, Kundalini, Prenatal Yoga, and Thai Yoga Therapeutics. Swan River Yoga also offers semi-private classes and yoga teacher training. Additional services include Massage Therapy, Dharma counseling, Cranial Sacral Work, and Energy Reiki Sessions. Swan River Yoga operates based on four principals: community, integrity, authenticity, and beauty.

Transform NOLA

• Teach Training
• Private Lessons

Transform NOLA is a yoga and functional movement studio in uptown New Orleans that opened in 2010. Ms. Oramous offers private and group sessions at the studio, in the client's home, or place of business. Transform NOLA is also available for movement, stress management, and motivational activities at company retreats and conventions. Services include Vinyasa yoga, TRX Suspension Training, Pilates, yoga teacher training, and life coaching. Transform NOLA is a Yoga Alliance certified school.

Yoga Bywater

• Teach Training

Opened in 2003 in the New Orleans Historic Bywater District, Yoga Bywater offers several yoga classes a week taught mainly in the Iyengar tradition. Classes include Iyengar Intensives and Iyengar All Levels, Level 1, and Level 2; Vinyasa Flow Yoga; Rehab Yoga; Slow Burn; Kundalini Yoga with Meditation; and Power Flow. Yoga Bywater prices classes on a sliding scale based on financial need, ranging from $5.00 to $15 an hour. Yoga Bywater also offers special classes, workshops, and intensives and invites traveling teachers into the yoga practice.