Best Yoga Studios in Columbia

Ashtanga Yoga Howard County is a studio that offers its services to clients in and around Columbia. Its community welcomes students of different abilities and levels. It offers Ashtanga and Mysore yoga classes, which feature an experiential and progressive yoga learning process. Its instructors provide students with suggestions to refine their practice and alignment in a contemplative environment. Its co-founder, Romy Phillips, is a yoga therapist. She has been teaching yoga since 2001. Phillips is also a clinical technician at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Coreworks Fitness Studio is a yoga fitness center that offers private and group training sessions to yoga practitioners and enthusiasts in Columbia. The facility is composed of 11 trainers that facilitate yoga, pilates, and fusion exercise sessions for both male and female clients. Some of the classes include Pilates yoga fusion, Barre class, flow yoga, tower Pilates, and foam roller pilates. Coreworks Fitness Studio also offers virtual class options for yoga, mediation, and stretching exercises.

IO Workshop in Columbia is a non-profit organization that provides children and adults with yoga and learning programs. These programs range from Tibetan yoga courses to nighttime yoga classes. Its yoga programs follow the concept of the Three Jewels, focusing on motion, mindfulness, and meditation. Additionally, its staff guides clients in practices that help improve their mindfulness about their body, speech, and the world around them. Co-founder Joseph Murray is a member of The Independent Yoga Educators of America.

Rolling Brook Yoga is a yoga studio that serves clients in Columbia. It offers in-studio, outdoor, and virtual yoga classes for all levels, including prenatal yoga. The studio also provides a Koru mindfulness class with Cara McNamara for teens and young adults, emphasizing self-compassion and an experiential comparative anatomy course with Machelle Lee. Rolling Brook Yoga offers an inclusive, safe, and friendly place for yoga practitioners. Studio owner Lynne Olsen is a corrective exercise specialist with the Biomechanics Method.

Sankofa Yoga is a private studio that offers tools to achieve optimal wellness for clients residing in Columbia and the surrounding areas. It was started by Tamisha and Marcus Ponder in July 2019 with a mission to provide healing and wellness through yoga. This vinyasa-hatha-based studio delivers a mixed level of yoga classes that fit the specific goal of students. It conducts meditation + mindfulness, stretched focused, workout focused, gentle, and Vinyasa yoga classes. Yoga sessions for pregnant women and addiction recovery are likewise available.

Shift Yoga is a studio that offers in-person and live streaming virtual classes to students in Howard County, including the Columbia metro. It guides practitioners in achieving deep self-care through yoga, meditation, and mindfulness sessions. Committed to enhancing clients' physical, mental, and spiritual well-being, instructors provide chill restorative, flow, community meditation, and myofascial release classes. The studio also offers yin yoga immersion and pranayama. Resident instructor Felicia Ho uses her background in teaching Asian healing arts to change people's lives for the better.

The Yoga Center of Columbia provides in-studio and live-streamed classes for individuals in the metro. The team of instructors offers over a hundred classes for students of all levels, including yoga core, gentle yoga, morning meditation, and mindfulness meditation. In addition, it also has specific sessions for pregnant women and postpartum moms. TThe Yoga Center was established in 1992. It supports various non-profit organizations like the Howard County Food Bank and provides donation-based workshops for Village of Resistance.

Yoga Love is a Columbia health and fitness center that provides yoga training solutions for practitioners and teachers in the metro. Some of the studio's programs include recovery flow, power vinyasa, strength flow, gentle flow, and all-level flow. Yoga Love started its operations in 2014 and was founded by Ali Dietrich Violand, a certified yoga instructor, nutrition coach, and personal trainer. Ali has also completed the 500-hour Yoga Teacher Training and the Experienced Yoga Teacher Training.

Yoga Revelation is a locally owned studio open to students throughout Columbia. It offers in-person indoor and outdoor classes and online sessions. The studio allows practitioners to explore various practices through its classes, including Hatha and Vinyasa yoga, qigong, and meditation. Its lessons are designed to balance effort and ease and align physical movement with breathing. One of its instructors, Anne Marie Pamukcoglu, has been practicing yoga for more than 10 years. The studio has a second location in Ellicott City.