Best Yoga Studios in Portland

Arcana is a yoga studio that serves the residents of Portland. It specializes in healing arts, local crafts, and soulful yoga. Its yoga classes are designed to empower students through movement, breath, meditation, and stillness. The instructors at Arcana also help clients through other holistic health modalities, such as massage, Reiki, meditation, Ayurveda, herbalism, and astrology. Arcana was founded by Jennie Joan in 2014 after giving up alcohol, discovering yoga, and having a community to help with her recovery.

Ashley Flowers Yoga offers a personalized yoga experience to practitioners in the Portland metro. The studio offers special classes like goat, paddleboard, fresh air, and private yoga. Ashley Flowers encourages beginner and seasoned practitioners alike to break free from normal expectations of yoga and to discover what works for them. Ashley Flowers provides online classes that students could access through any device with the Zoom app. She is a YACEP Yoga Alliance continuing education provider.

Breathing Room Yoga and Movement Studio offers Portland residents a selection of yoga classes to heal the mind and body. Opened in 2011, its main goal is to facilitate intimate classes with experienced teachers in a peaceful, unique, and non-competitive setting. It strives to make yoga accessible to all by providing class types for learners of different levels. Most of the Breathing Room Yoga and Movement Studio’s classes are vinyasa style, which is more commonly known as flow yoga.

Creating Space Yoga serves clients in Portland and neighboring areas. It offers virtual, in-studio, and outdoor yoga programs for individuals and groups. Its team provides a variety of heated and non-heated classes, which include vinyasa basic, vinyasa flow, restorative yoga, yin, mat Pilates, and yoga core fusion. It also conducts one-hour Yoga Nindra sessions that aim to release internal tension and stress through guided visualization and relaxation. One of its teachers, Kendra, has been practicing yoga for a decade.

Crisp is a fitness studio that serves clients in the Portland area. It provides heated vinyasa yoga sessions, which help students improve their flexibility, breathing, and posture. It also offers personal training, cycle, and boot camp classes. Its classes integrate different genres of fitness and typically last 90 minutes. Its co-owner, James Hollenkamp, previously worked in the business industry before discovering the fitness field. He has earned certification in NASM personal training and NASM weight loss.

Greener Postures Yoga provides services to clients in Portland and the neighboring areas. Classes are conducted in-studio, outdoor, and virtually, catering to students of varying skill and fitness levels. The sessions offered by the studio are heated vinyasa flow, deep stretch, yin yoga, and restorative yoga. Expectant mothers can attend prenatal yoga classes designed to prepare them physically, mentally, and emotionally for childbirth. These classes focus on breath awareness and restorative postures performed in a safe and supportive environment.

Jade Integrated Health is a family-owned wellness center that serves clients in Portland. For over 20 years, it has been providing a wide range of services such as acupuncture, physical therapy, massage, and traditional Chinese medicine. The center also offers yoga classes headed by its program coordinator, Sarra Maddocks. She has decades of experience teaching community yoga, including power flow, yin fusion, restorative, and full-body stretches. Jade Integrated Health also provides prenatal and postpartum treatments.

Leaping Waters Yoga is a yoga studio that caters to men and women in Portland. Its classes include aerial yoga Nidra, rope wall yoga, and chakra yoga. It also offers events and workshops, such as its full-moon floating yoga Nidra series and sound healing. It provides teacher training for aerial yoga and restorative yoga. One of its instructors, ‎Lily Dougher Hagerman, is a registered nurse and a master yoga teacher. She is also the director of the Maine Yoga School.

Maine Hatha Yoga is a studio that caters to Portland residents who can be as young as 11 years old. It offers classes such as Classic 26 and Express 26, both of which make use of hatha yoga postures. Depending on the students' preferences, these can last from 60 to 90 minutes. Maine Hatha Yoga's founder, Angela Weymouth, opened the establishment in 2002. She uses yoga as a tool to overcome post-partum depression and anxiety.

Nourish Yoga and Insight Center is a fitness studio in Portland that maintains a sacred space for re-sensitization. Its founder, Kelly Patterson, is a yoga instructor who developed Nourish Yoga, a yogic practice that incorporates flow yoga with individual chakra clearing, cranio-sacral balancing, and hands-on assists. It aims to reacquaint learners with their fully integrated, balanced human expression. The studio also offers yoga nidra and yogic sleep classes, which aim to invoke deep relaxation.

Portland Yoga Project was established to create a place that provides opportunities and value to teachers. The yoga conducts classes in yoga and barre. It also holds sessions on vinyasa, gentle flow, yin, functional flow, restorative, and prenatal yoga. Additionally, the studio offers Matte, a full body conditioning class. Students can attend classes in person or via live stream videos. To help new teachers gain experience, community classes are taught by newly trained teachers.

Soul Purpose Sanctuary is a yoga studio that serves the Portland area. The studio designs personalized hour-long sessions for students by using yoga therapy and mediation practices. Its founder and instructor, Diane Murphy, is a registered nurse and a yogi with over 20 years of practice. She helps her students gain a sense of calm and focus while strengthening their bodies. To further improve the students' wellbeing, Soul Purpose Sanctuary's other services include astrology readings, reiki, and aromatherapy.

Still Water Yoga provides yoga classes for clients in Portland. These classes focus on Hatha yoga and Iyengar yoga, with various levels such as the easy pace, continuing yoga, and two-hour continuing yoga. Vipassana meditation and macrobiotics are also practiced in the studio. This multi-generational studio is headed by yoga instructors Candace Satlak and Joseph Satlak. Both have been featured as models in "Yoga–Awakening the Inner Body," a book written by Donald Moyer.