From the article: Yoga Style Guide
Give a shout out to your favorite yoga style and tell us why it works so well for you. Readers Respond
Kundalini
- I am legally blind-nearing total blindness. Kundalini has helped me with inner sight as well as insight. My breathing, balance, and strength have improved, I have lost weight and at age 50 have better tone and definition than I have had in many years. It's saving my body and sanity
- —Guest Connie Sorensen
Hatha and Kundalini
- I do both of these yoga classes every week and have done for years. I get different things from them at different times-depending on what's going on in my life. I am a psychotherapist and, while it may look sometimes like, easy work, it can be demanding and stress inducing. At the moment, I am finding the Hatha Yoga to be quite helpful with stress reduction. But, who the teacher is has a lot to do with the quality of the class.
- —Guest Paula Young LMFT
Bikram all the way!
- Bikram yoga is by far the most challenging...both mentally and physically! Unlike other forms of exercise, you GAIN energy! Everyone needs to try it at least once!
- —Guest Raes104
Iyengar all the way
- I love the way you learn to go deeply into poses, learning all the subtle ways to achieve the best alignment, and then do a recovery pose before launching into the next one. Iyengar makes me break into a sweat while holding still. Iyengar also seems to have one of the more rigorous and longest certification programs for teachers, so they tend to be better about helping students work appropriately around injuries, while still challenging them.
- —Guest Rina
Integral Yoga
- I discovered Yoga while training for the NY marathon. The Road Runners gave a class for runners which was actually Power Yoga. I immediately loved the practice and I believe it's what enabled me to complete the marathon. It was a few years later I wandererd in to Integral Yoga to take a meditation class. The feeling on just entering the building was very hard to describe. A feeling of peace just washed over me. Like someone pulled a plug and all the tension just ran out. I knew right away I had to follow this path. Integral has taught me to accept my limitations and honor my body. I no longer have the need to push and push until exhaustion. I found that while elusive, the feeling of working hard while staying steady and relaxed is an attainable goal and now I try to pass that on to my students. As i open my own studio this month Swami Satchidananda is my guide and inspiration.
- —Guest Bobby Balarama
Vinyasa Power Yoga
- I love Vinyasa Power Yoga - it has changed my life immensely. I do a session every night and think about it when I am not doing yoga. Makes me feel calm, happy, strong and powerful with a clear and clean mind. Would recommend it to the whole world!!
- —Guest Kim Hutton
Iyengar
- Love it! The focus on each pose is meditative and allows me to shed the day completely. I come out of a session in a calm, joyful state, and I still feel that I have worked my body.
- —Guest bumblebat
Triyoga
- I enjoy most styles I have tried including Yin, Kripalu and Forrest yoga, but Triyoga is by far my favorite. I love the flowing sequences which are both strengthening and very meditative. After practising this style for three years I have been inspired to become a teacher.
- —Guest.Serenity
Bikram Does NOT Equal Hot Yoga
- My favorite style is hot yoga by far! As a hot yoga instructor and studio owner I think we need to be careful in saying that Bikram is hot yoga, invented hot yoga, or that hot yoga is based on what Bikram has done. Hot yoga has been around since the beginning of the yoga tradition- 5,000 years ago and should not be defined as invented by one person. There are many hot yoga instructors out there and to attribute hot yoga to one person, who considers himself a celebrity as well as his trainees, is a bad idea. Namaste!
- —drkellih
YogaFit
- I love YogaFit! YogaFit training is an eclectic blend of traditional hatha yoga poses drawn from Iyengar, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, and Viniyoga practices. It has really evolved over the years. It is an RYT School and is definitely not just 'physical' as some wrongly state. There is a spiritual component to this style, just as any other style. As others have mentioned, it's more about the instructor than the style. If you get a teacher who has only been to a weekend certification, well..., but if you get a YogaFit RYT teacher, you'll probably have a great experience. I know I love it!
- —tnyoga
YogaFit
- A demistified style of yoga founded by Beth Shaw. This style incorporates flowing movements, salutations, strengthening poses, balancing poses, deep stretching poses and a final relaxation!
- —Guest Katie A. Campbell
I love Dru
- I live in the French countryside and was so happy to find that a neighbour is a teacher of Dru Yoga. I had never heard of it before but after 3 years practice I am a dedicated follower. It's gentle flowing style and use of music is a wonderful way to inner peace. I hope it becomes more well known and can be shared by many more people
- —Guest lesley
Vinyasa Power Yoga
- My favorite style of yoga is vinyasa power yoga. Being a runner I like anything physical and the way it makes me feel like I've had a great cardio workout.
- —Guest Valencia
Iyengar
- Finding yoga in my twenties was a blessing. I was diagnosised with scoliosis, curvature of the spine, when I was 11. In the early 90s I was in the military and my back would just ache after the runs I was doing for physical training (PT). A friend, a physical therapist, suggested yoga. I was fortunately in San Antonio TX at the time and had a lot of variety in styles to chose from-Iyengar with utilizing props to help meet physical challenges (my hips were so tight that frog pose was impossible at the time) was welcome. The teachers made all the difference as well and that holds true of any style. I think we look for different styles at different times in our lives-"hot" yoga was the best for me a few years ago and now I have gravitated back to Iyengar.
- —knittolive
Bikram is the best!
- I have tried Astanga and Hatha and by far Bikram is tops! The heat takes me beyond the flexibility I get in other classes and I feel detoxed.
- —Guest Christa
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