Best Yoga Studios in Charleston

2022

360 Yoga

• Restorative Yoga
• Hot Yoga

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

• Power Yoga

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

• Power Yoga
• Hot Yoga

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.

Community Yoga

Community Yoga offers yoga classes to students of various needs and experience levels. Clients who only want drop-in classes will find options available to them at CY. The studio also offers packages of five classes, 12 classes, and 24 classes as well as monthly unlimited options. Students who bring their student IDs receive a 15% discount on all class packages. Members of OrangeTheory Fitness also receive a 15% discount on packages. Community Yoga has a discount for active military and veterans as well. The studio's class offerings include power yoga, vinyasa, yin, Buti, stretch and release, beginner's classes, and community yoga.

Fit Culture

Fit Culture helps clients live their best lives by refreshing their bodies, focusing their minds, and lifting their spirits. Fit Culture is proud of the community of men and women it has built who inspire each other to get healthy together. Fit Culture offers group fitness programs in disciplines such as high-intensity interval training, Tabata, cardio conditioning, yoga, Pilates, strength training, barre, cardio kickboxing, cardio dance, circuit training, and TRX. Among the individual classes offered by Fit Culture is "Buns & Guns," a 45-minute class that is designed to sculpt chiseled arms and glutes quickly and efficiently for students of all levels.

Locomotion Fitness

• Hot Yoga

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.

Longevity Fitness Charleston

• Private Lessons

Longevity Fitness Charleston is an upscale boutique fitness location that offers online streaming and in-studio small group classes in HIIT, Pilates, TRX, and yoga. It also provides customized health and wellness programs, including nutritional coaching, massage therapy, and facials. The studio offers a personal training area, a recovery lounge, and a sauna space. One of its yoga instructors, Gail Corvette, has worked with cancer patients and survivors. Corvette is also a certified Anusara yoga teacher.

M Body Fitness

M Body Fitness is a Pilates and yoga studio founded by experienced instructor Meredith Williams. M Body's offers a variety of different class types, from small group classes down to options for private and semi-private sessions. Meredith makes use of the breadth of Pilates equipment, including Tower units, a whole body vibrational platform, bodyweight suspension training straps, and Balanced Body Pilates orbits. Every class at M Body is different yet stays true to the precise movements and core fundamentals of the practice as pioneered by Joseph Pilates. M Body focuses on teaching safe and effective movements that give clients healthy, long, lean, and sculpted bodies.

Mission Yoga

Mission Yoga is a yoga studio based in Charleston, South Carolina that is proud to offer instruction in yoga of various types to the residents of the surrounding communities. Vinyasa flow is a common thread among the classes offered at Mission Yoga, but instructors have experience in many different yoga techniques and modalities, including Shadow Yoga, Anusara, Iyengar, Kundalini, Bowspring, Vini Yoga, Jivamukti, Sarayana, and Yin Yoga. Classes at Mission Yoga meet students where they are regarding physical fitness levels and amount of yoga experience. Beginners and veteran practitioners alike can find environments in which to thrive at Mission Yoga.

Open Heart Yoga SC

• Restorative Yoga

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.

Reverb Charleston

Reverb Charleston is a fitness studio that uses yoga-inspired practices to stretch and strengthen clients bodies combined with stress-management techniques to calm the mind. Reverb strives to break down the barriers that prevent clients from accessing the tools they need to change their worlds and their bodies, whether those barriers are physical, philosophical, or socio-economic barriers. Reverb designs classes to meet the needs of students of all experience levels, and the studio offers a promotion specifically for locals who are new students. This special offer provides these clients with a discount on two weeks of sessions at Reverb.

Salt Spa & Yoga

• Restorative Yoga

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.

Satsang Yoga Charleston

Satsang Yoga Charleston is a Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina-based yoga studio that offers classes and private sessions to students with many different needs and at many different levels of experience and familiarity with yoga. Class offerings include Slow Flow, Prenatal Yoga, Meditation, and All Levels. Satsang also organizes special events and retreats such as vegan potlucks and open mics. Previous clients praise Satsang for helping to relieve their pain, after searching for years for solutions that never worked. They enjoy the inclusion of breath work, meditation, and asana in an open, comfortable, and safe space without judgment from instructors or other students.

Sun and Sol Yoga

• Private Lessons

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.

Suzanne Goldston

Suzanne Goldston is a yoga teacher serving the residents of Charleston, South Carolina, and beyond. Suzanne offers a variety of yoga services such as private lessons in Suzanne's studio or personalized instruction that takes place directly in clients' homes. Suzanne also offers options for clients to bundle packs of both of these session types in sessions of six. Suzanne also offers an experience-based, 200-hour yoga teacher certification program that focuses on traditional Vedic teachings and practices. The program includes a foundation in Ayurveda, yoga's sister science. The program emphasizes practice teaching to give instructors the experience they need to teach students competently. This certification is recognized by Yoga Alliance.

The Works

• Power Yoga

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

• Teach Training
• Private Lessons
• Pre Natal

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

• Teach Training

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.

Yoga Factory by Yoloha

• Power Yoga
• Hot Yoga

Yoga Factory by Yoloha helps Charleston clients who want to practice meditation. It offers yoga classes with the goal of helping individuals achieve body awareness, flexibility, and strength. It also strives to help in reducing stress through the use of vinyasa flow, invigoration, relaxation, and Katonah yoga. The studio also offers surf conditioning, a 45-minute workshop that assists surfers in improving cardiovascular strength through functional high-intensity interval training. Its team also facilitates retreats in a target destination, inclusive of reiki and private yoga.