Best Yoga Studios in Grand Rapids

2022

AM

• Private Lessons

AM Yoga is a studio based in Grand Rapids that offers an array of workshops for practitioners of all ages and experience levels. Students may choose from more than 20 weekly in-studio and virtual classes, such as Power Flow, Slow Burn, and AMP. Kids' Yoga classes like Super Yogi, AM Kids: Elementary, and Girl Power: Series are also available for children aged two years and up. AM Yoga is open for private sessions for individuals and small or large groups.

Armentality Movement Arts Center

• Private Lessons

Armentality Movement Arts Center in Grand Rapids is a yoga and fitness studio that has been providing a variety of movement disciplines since 1998. It offers group classes, including adaptive yoga, mobility flow, belly dance, contemporary dance, global jam, and body conditioning. Each class at Armentality Movement Arts Center is tailored according to the clients' specific needs. Thai yoga therapy, bridal boot camps, and dance parties for girl’s night outs, birthdays, and anniversaries are also offered at the studio.

Bluebird Meadow Goat Yoga

• Private Lessons

Bluebird Meadow Goat Yoga is situated in a meadow and farm northeast of Grand Rapids. It holds regular outdoor yoga activities where individuals can enjoy yoga in a natural setting in its hobby farm, interacting with goats during the session. Its certified yoga practitioners specialize in goat yoga therapy, which helps in improving physical, mental, emotional, and social functioning. It can also host private sessions, which it calls Animal Happy Hour, for clients who want to feature yoga and goats during parties.

Body Mind Being

Serving the residents of Grand Rapids, Body Mind Being is a yoga studio that offers all aspects of yoga, mindfulness, and wellness services. Since 2015, the studio offers different yoga classes that help clients heal through meditation, yoga therapy, and workshops. Aside from its yoga services, the studio also offers a "Sacred Soul Sundays" gathering where they share ceremonies and stories about self-awareness. Raechel Morrow, the studio's founder, collaborated on a research study about creativity in mental health.

Cascade Yoga Studio

Cascade Yoga Studio is a Michigan-based yoga studio providing classes to residents of Grand Rapids. It has been in business for over 20 years and has a group of instructors experienced in guiding novice yogis. It specializes in contemporary yoga practices faithful to ancient tradition. It offers workshops such as the Chakra series and hip stability. Students may avail of access to the studio's online library, zoom class packages, and monthly unlimited memberships. Cascade Yoga Studio also provides the 200-hour yoga teacher training program for aspiring instructors.

Flip Dog Yoga

Flip Dog Yoga is a yoga studio located in Grand Rapids that dedicates itself to bringing yoga to all people. The studio focuses on helping students manage their worry, rest and actually relax, and grow in their confidence. Flip Dog Yoga offers six classes, namely Flow Yoga, Flow 45, Slow Flow, Power Yoga, Yoga for Dudes, and Yoga for Athletes. Flow Yoga is accessible to many practitioners, being an hour-long mixed levels class, while Flow 45 is the same but shorter.

From The Heart Yoga & Tai Chi Center

From the Heart Yoga & Tai Chi Center is a Grand Rapids studio that holds regular yoga, tai chi, and guided meditation sessions. The studio is a hatha yoga specialist that is run by a team of experienced instructors who can handle basic yoga and more advanced practices in pranayama, asana, and guided flow. It also holds special sessions for prenatal yoga. The studio is owned by Behnje Masson, a former member of the National Certification Board for Anusara Yoga.

Funky Buddha Yoga

Funky Buddha Yoga Hothouse is a contemporary yoga practice studio that has served students in the Grand Rapids area since 2010. The school is solely focused on hot yoga classes and offers sessions in slow and power variations. The studio runs a community power flow class with profits donated to local community organizations and offers events such as the 21-day yoga challenge. Classes are also available for on-line access.

Heart’s Journey Wellness Center

Heart’s Journey Wellness Center is a yoga studio located in Allendale that serves clients throughout the Grand Rapids region. It features a staff of highly-qualified instructors who have completed 200-, 300-, and 500-hour training programs with a variety of organizations such as Inner Peace Yoga Therapy and LifeForce Yoga Training Institute. Altogether the team has more than 2,000 hours of certified training, and they provide classes for all level of practitioners, including gentle flow vinyasa, beginning ashtanga, and meditative movement. Restorative and hot yoga sessions also are among client favorites. Heart's Journey works with insurance companies and accepts Health Savings Account payments as well.

Heights Yoga Project

Heights Yoga Project is a Grand Rapids-based yoga studio that provides classes to the metro's locals. Through alignment-based teaching and demonstration of poses, the team helps students of all levels feel comfortable practicing yoga, both in-studio and virtually. The studio specializes in different yoga types, including vinyasa, barre, slow burn, and yin and meditation. Additionally, the team at Heights Yoga Project is committed to community outreach and has expanded its class schedule to include specialty classes, such as prenatal yoga, adult/child yoga, and beginner yoga.

Hello Yoga

• Teach Training
• Restorative Yoga

Hello Yoga offers a diverse selection of yoga classes to Grand Rapids and its surrounding areas. The studio's yoga classes emphasize mindfulness, self-improvement, and building social connections. The studio holds yoga classes suitable for all levels of experience through in-studio and live stream instruction. It also offers designated beginner-friendly classes for first-timers. It teaches a variety of yoga styles, such as vinyasa, slow flow, restorative yoga, and yin yoga. It also conducts teacher training programs and hosts various events to further build the community of students and instructors.

Kula Yoga

• Restorative Yoga

Kula Yoga serves clients in the Grand Rapids area with a mix of classes that target different aspects of breathing and movement. Vinyasa classes connect movement with breath, while Yin brings balance to active and stressful lifestyles. Other courses assist with intentional breathing, mindful movements, and plyometrics/conditioning. Kula Yoga does ongoing events and workshops, and it also provides teacher training for aspiring instructors and individuals hoping to go deeper into the yoga lifestyle. The staff includes teachers who have attained certifications from RYT-200 as well as from the Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP) program, with thousands of hours in combined training.

Light on Yoga Institute

Light on Yoga Institute is a Colorado yoga studio offering classes to individuals in Grand Rapids and the surrounding areas. It offers weekly Iyengar yoga classes designed for students of all ages and fitness levels. Potential students may register for live online classes via the studio's website. The studio's founder, Jennifer Beaumont, is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher. She helps individuals develop optimal body alignment, strength, endurance, and flexibility and improve their intelligent evaluation, self-awareness, and inward reflection. Light on Yoga Institute also offers prenatal yoga classes for pregnant women.

Little Dipper

• Private Lessons

Little Dipper is a Grand Rapids yoga studio that serves practitioners in and around the city. It offers hour-long private sessions, as well as small group classes that last from 30 minutes to 75 minutes. The studio is run by Kate Block, an RYT-200 instructor that offers outdoor and off-site yoga practices. She is also a licensed massage therapist and a therapeutic bodywork practitioner. She specializes in diagnosing and treating those with lower body pains, such as lower back injuries and hip conditions.

Pure Hot Yoga GR

Pure Hot Yoga GR is a yoga studio in Grand Rapids that has been operating since 2018. The studio serves various customers, from beginners to regular practitioners. Packages offered range from starter memberships that last up to four months to unlimited packages that can be good for a whole year. Drop-in classes are also available, as well as a two-week class for new students. Aside from these classes, Pure Hot Yoga GR also offers massage therapy, such as deep tissue and aromatherapy massages.

Seva Yoga

Seva Yoga is a yoga school that is open to students in the Grand Rapids area. The studio specializes in private instruction sessions catering to students who have a physical condition that requires extra attention, are new to yoga, or who wish to deepen their practice through individual instruction. Seva Yoga also offers small in-studio group sessions in ashtanga yoga and online classes to all members via its Namastream service.

The Dailey Method Eastown

• Teach Training

The Dailey Method Eastown is a yoga and wellness studio that has been serving the residents of Grand Rapids and the surrounding areas since 2016. It offers full-body workout classes, which include a mix of yoga, Pilates, and ballet barre. It also provides 7-day core intensive programs, which include proper alignment training and core work exercises. In addition, the studio offers a Complete Musculoskeletal Anatomy Course for fitness instructors. The Dailey Method studio has 19 other locations in the United States.

The Yoga Studio

• Teach Training

The Yoga Studio is a Grand Rapids-based business established in 1979. Its team of certified iyengar yoga instructors is committed to making yoga accessible to students of different ages, sizes, and abilities by offering alternatives and modifications and providing instructions on how to practice in an encouraging environment. Each class consists of a small number of students, allowing the instructors to give each student personalized guidance. Company owner Denise Baker, who has been practicing yoga since 2007, is also a lawyer.

Twisted Hot Yoga

Twisted Hot Yoga is a yoga studio in the Grand Rapids area. The school focuses almost exclusively on hot yoga across a range of styles. Twisted Hot Yoga's contemporary offerings include a heated Flex class that utilizes hand weights, resistance bands, and cardio exercises and a Hip Hop Heat class incorporating dance and set to a hip hop soundtrack. The school also offers more traditional vinyasa and yin yoga styles.

Yoga Fever

• Teach Training
• Hot Yoga

Yoga Fever is a mindful movement studio in Grand Rapids that offers power and slow flow vinyasa sessions, which are held in its 99-degree hot yoga room. It also holds combination classes, including the Ride (30) + Flow (30) session, which fuses hot yoga with cardio. The 60-minute session, which increases students' heart rate, aims to help in improving range in motion and flexibility. Yoga Fever advocates for holistic wellness and in line with this, offers flexibility, cardio, strength, and recovery classes.

Yoga Zen

• Power Yoga

Yoga Zen is a studio that provides its services to individuals located in Grand Rapids and the surrounding areas. It offers a wide variety of programs for all ages, which include beginner-friendly, kids yoga, vinyasa, core-focused, zen, and reiki + restore classes. These are held in-studio, through virtual means, or even outside the studio. In addition, Yoga Zen offers massages for kids and adults. Catherine Schmidt, the establishment's lead teacher, has completed a 200-hour E-RYT training.