Yoga & Pilates

Asheville Yoga Center is a yoga studio on South Liberty Street in downtown Asheville. Its website says it offers more than 55 weekly classes in a mix of styles, including Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative, Hatha and Bhakti yoga. The studio welcomes all levels and has a New to AYC page for first-timers. Classes can be booked online. Beyond regular classes, it runs workshops, immersions and retreats, along with a monthly Satsang gathering. It also offers yoga teacher training at two levels. The 200-hour program is called Teaching From The Heart, and the 300-hour program is called Kindling The Flame.

Heated yoga is the specialty at Hot Yoga Asheville, a studio on Fairview Road that its website says has been open since 2008. Both of its practice rooms are warmed with far infrared heat, and the schedule mixes several styles: Hot Power Flow, Hot Align Flow, Hot 26 (the traditional 26-posture sequence), Yin and Restorative yoga, plus BLAST and Hot Lift, which lean more toward a fitness workout. Classes are open to all levels, from complete beginners to experienced students. The studio also runs monthly workshops, including a series it calls HYAcademy that focuses on topics like inversions and sequencing. Outside of regular classes, Hot Yoga Asheville offers teacher training and continuing education, an on-demand video library for practicing at home, and retreats in Costa Rica.

Purna Yoga 828 is a yoga studio on Haywood Road in West Asheville. Its website lists in-studio and online classes, weekly Heartfull Meditation sessions and private yoga therapy sessions. The studio also hosts workshops and trainings, including monthly mini-workshops, weekend immersions, retreats and Great Yoga Wall trainings. It has an on-demand video library of classes and themed workshops. Its website describes the practice as alignment-based poses rooted in an Indian lineage.