Best Yoga Studios in Rochester

Assisi Yoga is a branch of The Assisi Institute serving clients in Rochester. It offers online and in-person yoga classes for all levels and ages to help students improve their overall well-being. Ayurveda specialist Christianne Asper-Contant leads its team of RYT-200 and RYT-500 instructors. Founder Isha Das hosts spiritual meditations, retreats, and spiritual direction classes on a weekly basis. A yoga studio connected with the Assissi Institute, it practices both Kriya Yoga and Christian mysticism. Its practice is compatible with any spiritual tradition.

Breathe is a wellness studio that serves clients in Rochester. Since 2002, it has been providing yoga, meditation, and nutrition services to individuals and groups. It offers private yoga classes designed to help clients relax and learn modifications for injuries and posture problems. Breathe also provides a 200-hour teacher training program to clients who aspire to become yoga instructors. The studio has a bar and boutique where clients can get healthy breakfast items such as acai bowls, baked goods, teas, juices, and coffee.

Compass Cycle + Flow is a Rochester candle-lit studio that helps reach the fitness goals of individuals of all skill levels and abilities. Its instructors offer an amped-up yoga class that is a combination of vinyasa-style flows, intense exercise, and short periods of rest. This type of yoga session sculpts muscles and increases endurance. Additionally, they provide a 90-minute yoga session that involves 108 sun salutations. Cycle and cross-training classes are also available.

Hot Yoga Rochester provides classes around the Rochester metro. Its classes are designed to accommodate all levels and do not require students to have prior experience. It welcomes both first-time yoga practitioners and long-term clients to its classes. The studio specializes in Bikram yoga where clients enter a heated room to be able to work more into their muscles as their bodies get warm. It also offers training programs for aspiring yoga instructors.

Midtown Athletic Club Rochester is a family-owned sports resort that offers Yoga Alliance-approved classes for physical, spiritual, and mental wellbeing. What started as a single tennis club has expanded into other areas of fitness. It offers a variety of programs for children and adults, including group exercises and training sessions. Resort amenities include a spa, boutiques, and bistros. Midtown Athletic Club Rochester, which has received the IHRSA Outstanding Community Service Award, supports local charitable causes.

Serving the Rochester area, Now Yoga + Movement is a collective of four yoga teachers sharing the practice and movement of yoga to improve their students' personal well-being. It offers movement classes that include chair yoga, slow flow, morning strength and stretch, and gentle yoga. Its studio holds in-person classes and yoga special events while its outdoor classes are held on the lawn at I-square. Additionally, with its goal of making classes accessible to everyone, it also has lessons virtually and for kids and tweens.

Nu Movement is comprised of groups of artists, yogis, dancers, and holistic wellness promoters located in Rochester. It was established with the collective goal to support local businesses in the metro. The studio offers classes for contemporary dance, mat classes, Bollywood-inspired fitness programs, gentle yoga, boudoir yoga, and OM chanting. Apart from group classes in the studio, it also offers wellness services to corporate employees and private instructions for individuals who prefer one-on-one experience with the teacher.

Open Sky Yoga Center provides its services to individuals in Rochester and the surrounding communities. It handles all levels of yoga classes and offers virtual sessions, such as morning and gentle yoga, as well as back care foundations. François Raoult, its director, has been a yoga teacher since 1975. He is certified in gong yoga and also serves as the CEO of the Open Sky Yoga Therapy Training. In addition to being a yoga specialist, Raoult has a passion for music, including sacred Himalayan music.

Tru Yoga is a yoga and fitness center that serves clients in Rochester and its surrounding areas. It offers a variety of yoga classes, including yin and mindfulness, vinyasa flow, meditation, and restorative yoga. The facility is managed by a team of qualified yoga instructors able to demonstrate proper practice and technique and provide exercise adjustments and training recommendations. Tru Yoga also provides a variety of workshops and specialty training sessions, such as its 12-Step Recovery yoga class and yoga basics for beginners. 

Vault is a woman-owned fitness and yoga studio offering class-based boxing, boxing, and fitness experiences in Rochester. The studio provides Hatha flow and power vinyasa yoga classes and indoor rhythm, road ride, and power cycling, and fitness boxing, available for skills of all levels. The facility is equipped with modern lighting and sound systems, keyless lockers with charging stations, and locally sourced beverages. Vault was founded by Stephanie Green.

Yoga 170 is a fitness community near Rochester. Since opening in 2019, the studio has been offering a diverse range of yoga classes such as vinyasa flow, hatha yoga, and candlelight yoga. It accepts students of all ages and practice experience, including children as young as three years old. Children can participate in butterfly kids yoga to aid in their physical and mental development. The studio is spacious and styled with a modern farmhouse theme to help students feel relaxed.

Yoga DrishTi Community Wellness caters to clients in the Rochester metro and the surrounding communities. It offers all levels, ease-flow, intermediate, and restorative yoga classes. In addition, it provides therapeutic massage services, which can treat various conditions such as arthritis, frozen shoulder, golfer's elbow, knee pain, and scoliosis. Yoga DrishTi Community Wellness has been in the business since 2012. Its owner, Nicole deViere, holds a Registered Yoga Teacher certification. Her specialties include ayurvedic and treatment-based massage.