Best Yoga Studios in Durham

110 Yoga is a yoga studio that serves clients in the Durham area. It provides a range of yoga classes, which include fundamentals warm flow, strength and balance, hot core flow, and hot slow flow. It also offers a four-week inversion workshop, which helps students master their bodies and develop inversion strength. The studio focuses on core, functional poses, alignment, and transitions. Its owner, Cristina Max, is also a certified Pilates instructor and a neuromuscular massage therapist.

Arrichion Durham is a yoga studio serving individuals in the metro. It offers a wide variety of hot yoga classes, including fundamental hot yoga for balance and flexibility, vinyasa flow for endurance, and hot Pilates for core strengthening. The studio also conducts circuit training sessions, such as high-intensity circuit training, balanced circuit and yoga sequence, and high-intensity yoga with mixed martial arts techniques. Arrichion was founded by Clay and Jenna Reynolds, who have several years of experience.

Servicing Durham and nearby areas, Blue Point Yoga is a studio that aims to make yoga accessible for people of all ages and capabilities. Its professionals teach yin, vinyasa, gentle, and restorative yoga. The center also provides specialty classes such as yoga basics and prenatal yoga. Sara Doyle, one of the instructors at the studio, completed two 200-hour yoga training courses and focuses her workshops and classes on mindfulness and movement. Blue Point Yoga also offers a teacher training program for aspiring instructors.

Founded in 2007, Franklin St. Yoga Center offers yoga and meditation classes to clients in Durham and the neighboring communities. Its yoga sessions include vinyasa yoga, restorative yoga, and Hatha yoga. Its Hatha yoga sessions are available to beginners and students who are recovering from injuries. Founder Lori Hernandez has been practicing yoga since 1997 and started serving as a full-time teacher in 2005. She has been a presenter at the National Graves Disease Conference, Texas Yoga Conference, and Asheville Yoga Festival.

Established in 2003, InsideOut Body Therapies is an alternative health, wellness, and fitness studio located in Durham. It provides pilates, personal training, physical, somatic, and yoga therapies. Other services include acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. Deborah Matthews and Mischa Decker are the owners of InsideOut Body Therapies. Mischa is a nationally certified pilates instructor and holds a doctorate degree in Physical Therapy. Deborah is also a member of the Pilates Method Alliance and a PMA certified pilates instructor.

Kundalini Yoga Durham is a locally owned yoga studio that welcomes yoga practitioners of different levels. It offers community yoga classes and workshops led by KRI-certified instructors of Kundalini yoga. Classes are available both online and in-studio. The yoga studio also offers KRI Level One Aquarian Teacher Training Program, a 220-hour professional certification program in Kundalini yoga. Keval Kaur Khalsa, the studio's lead trainer, is the founding director of the Y.O.G.A. for Youth satellite program in North Carolina.

MyYoga is a sustainable and eco-friendly studio that practices the principle of AHIMSA. It caters to Durham residents who want to participate in yoga classes that incorporate a variety of styles, from the barkan method to hot vinyasa. Its team of instructors hosts 75- to 90-minute yoga sessions that are designed for both beginners and seasoned practitioners. MyYoga continues to maintain a connection with other businesses that share the same principles and values, such as Durham Co-Op Market, The Tranquility Company, and Thriveworks.

Pura Vida Studio offers yoga classes for all types of practitioners in Durham, from beginners to advanced enthusiasts. It offers traditional, mat-based yoga sessions in styles such as flow and vinyasa. It also offers special yoga classes that use slings, silks, and aerial rigs. Founder Alicia Jurado travelled to Costa Rica and learned the phrase "pura vida" or "simple life," which she attached to her studio as a guiding principle. She and her all-women staff were honored with the 2020 Best New Business award by Cary Magazine.

The Sweat Lab serves individuals and families from the Durham area. Its team provides outdoor, virtual, and in-studio classes including yoga, cardio workouts, Pilates, barre, HIIT (high-intensity interval training), and sculpting. Its instructors also provide indoor cycling and private classes. The studio is open for cardio parties for various celebrations like birthdays, client events, or any corporate occasions. For cardio parties, clients can select an instructor and play their music of choice. The Sweat Lab actively participates in community services by facilitating charity classes.

The Wellness Station is a health and wellness center serving clients in Durham. It offers therapeutic and aerial yoga classes that combine the principles of the Feldenkrais Method with the use of circus hammocks for posture improvement and the restoration of spinal and nervous system functions. The studio also offers audio recordings of its classes, which are available on its website. In addition, its co-director, Paul McAndrew, has been practicing as a physical therapist for 30 years.

Vyb Studio is a hot yoga center located in Durham. Its instructors teach Ashtanga-inspired power yoga and deep stretch classes for building strength and enhancing flexibility and mobility. The interior temperature comes from its infrared heating system and is aimed to enhance sweating during workout sessions. In addition to yoga, the studio also has body strength and circuit training classes. Vyb Studio is open to learners and members of all skill levels.

Wholistic Health Studio is a wellness center that serves clients in Durham. Its studio holds yoga classes, including gentle and Hatha yoga sessions. It also provides tai chi classes for experienced practitioners. The center likewise offers bodywork and chiropractic services that help clients with muscular-skeletal pain. Principal yoga instructor Gigi Lee has more than two decades of yoga teaching experience and founded yoga programs for the Croasdaile Retirement Village and the Duke Faculty Club.

Yoga Off East is a studio in Durham that offers around 20 weekly yoga classes. Yoga practitioners of all levels can choose from a wide variety of energizing and restorative classes, which include slow flow, power yoga lab, Vinyasa flow, Hatha Chakra, and Yin yoga. Kathryn Sell Smith, the studio's owner and founder, is an E-RYT RYT300 who is also the program director for the studio's 200-hour teacher training program for aspiring yoga instructors.