Best Yoga Studios in Charleston

360 Yoga is a locally owned community studio that serves Charleston. Its classes are founded on the Bikram series of traditional postures and breathing exercises that encourage strength and flexibility. It offers yin, Bikram, and Nidra yoga and flow classes that are doable for beginners. The studio is equipped with locker rooms and heated rooms. One of its instructors, Wendy Wilson, has certifications in yin yoga and prenatal yoga. She organizes fundraisers for the Charleston Waterkeepers.

Aerial Fit is a climate-controlled facility that caters to clients in Charleston and the surrounding areas. It provides aerial training which includes aerial yoga, aerial hoop, aerial silks, and static trapeze. Aerial yoga uses an aerial sling to release chronic tension while hanging upside down. Focusing on upper body strengthening and deep relaxation, sessions are led by experienced yoga instructors. The studio is equipped with apparatuses rigged like the double-point trapeze.

Charleston Power Yoga, also known as CPY, is a hot power yoga studio that serves residents of the metro and surrounding communities. It offers a variety of workshops and classes that include vinyasa, deep stretching, and power core sessions, each designed to help improve flexibility and physical fitness and alleviate chronic pain and sore muscles. CPY was founded more than 11 years ago by Beth Plante, whose approach is to meet yoga students where they are in their physical fitness journey and help them make a recognizable difference.

Locomotion Fitness is a veteran-owned training facility that serves clients in Charleston and the surrounding areas. It offers clients personalized fitness programs and nutrition coaching to help them achieve their fitness goals, feel good about themselves, and look their best. It provides personal and group training, such as CrossFit, boot camps, spin cycling, and yoga. Students can drop in or register in classes through the Healthie app. Locomotion Fitness uses the InBody Test, which provides a comprehensive and non-invasive view of body composition balance.

Open Heart Yoga SC is a residential wellness studio that serves clients in Charleston. It offers private, online, and group yoga sessions that include basic and restorative yoga. Students are categorized into different levels, such as beginners, a mixed level class that introduces new postures to students, and a level that is comprised of students with consistent yoga practice. Owner Kim Donaldson practices a Bhakti-style of devotional yoga. She also considers her studio as a Christ-centered haven for yoga practitioners and enthusiasts.

Salt Spa & Yoga is a massage spa and yoga studio that serves Charleston residents. Several classes are available for couples, individuals, and groups, including vinyasa, power flow, restorative yoga, and vinyasa yin yoga. The studio also offers massage services, such as cupping, deep tissue, hot stone, and Swedish relaxation massage. Owner Ashley Veach is a Reiki master and evidential psychic medium. She offers a healing reading that reunites clients with departed loved ones.

Sun & Sol Yoga offers both group classes and private sessions for residents of Charleston and surrounding communities. It caters to practitioners of all levels, from first-time and drop-in clients to experts. The studio holds daily outdoor classes for vinyasa yoga. It also hosts reserved classes for families and corporate gatherings. Sun & Sol Yoga is owned and operated by Emily Anne, a 200-hour certified YTT instructor who studied in Bali. She is helped by Lauren Linton, who has been teaching yoga for three years.

The Works is a yoga studio that serves clients in Charleston and its surrounding areas. The business offers a wide range of yoga classes, including cardio, vinyasa yoga, plyometrics, and meditation. These classes have varying levels that focus on a person's breath and strength. The yoga studio founder is Sarah Frick, who describes the business as a place where clients can practice movement therapy and be free to be the best versions of themselves.

Yoga Daily is a physical center near Charleston that offers in-studio and virtual yoga classes. These include mindful vinyasa, Hatha yoga, yin yoga, and prenatal yoga. It also conducts sessions in Pilates, sound immersion, and quick yoga. Yoga Daily is a registered yoga school of the Yoga Alliance. Its studio is conveniently located less than 10 miles from downtown Charleston. It conducts outdoor classes in a wooded, grassy area off of Long Grove Drive.

Yoga Den has been offering yoga and barre classes since 2011. The studio is co-owned by friends Janin Desir-Spann and Jaclyn Vanderhoof. The pair have more than 30 years of combined experience in yoga and massage therapy. They started working as a team when Jaclyn met Janin while looking for a massage therapist for Yoga Den. Jaclyn and the studio's other instructors teach students with varying skill levels. The classes available at the studio are focused on flow, stretches, detox, or restoration.