Class Styles

Hot Yoga

Hot Yoga classes are our mainstay at MYBO. These yoga classes are intended to support your practice and your individual efforts to find balance, detoxify, and re-energize.

What To Expect

• Expect to get sweaty! Our classes range from warm to hot (80 to 106 degrees). The heat + humidity allow the body to detox and stretch more slowly, safely, and deeply.

• With sustained practice, you’ll start to notice more rapid improvement with healing, detoxification, weight loss, flexibility, strength, endurance, balance, and concentration. Practice often (we recommend a minimum of three days per week)!

• You can be a beginner and take any Hot Hatha Class!  The heat and the mental aspect is more challenging than the poses.

• Expect to see your body, attitude and energy positively transform.

How To Prepare

We recommend that you drink at least 1-2 liters of room temperature water 30 to 60 minutes before attending class and avoid eating large meals for two hours prior to class. It is advised that you snack on something small to eat like fruit, protein bar, or smoothie to maintain your energy level throughout the class.  If you have health conditions, ask your doctor if you should take Hot Yoga. 

STYLES OF HOT YOGA

Hot & Warm Vinyasa

Through creative vinyasa sequencing, conscious alignment, breath awareness, meditation and relaxation, we bring you Hot and Warm Vinyasa Yoga. With sequencing honored in every class as we flow through the asanas (poses), there is an organic unfolding where each step prepares us for the next. A class can begin with OM, breath centered gentle warm-ups, sun salutations, and elements of creative standing pose sequences, powerful arm balances and inversions, heart opening backbends, detoxing twists, deep forward folds and hip openers, along with meditation. Experience the yin and yang energy in a vinyasa class that promotes fluidity, mindfulness, and grounding.

Hot Hatha Variations

Moving gracefully through a set sequence of standing, balancing and seated postures, including basic inversions and hip openers, the Hot Hatha Variations class is an all levels class designed to encourage proper alignment of the body and bring balance, strength, and a calm mind. Similar to Bikram Yoga in that it is practiced in 103-105 degrees with 50-60% humidity, we begin and end with breathing technique. This is not a “flow” class: expect a steady pace, longer holds, just enough breath, and some use of props to assist a posture or maximize a stretch. Modifications offered to meet student’s needs.

Warm Oasis Yoga

We offer deep stretching, restorative, and gentle classes in a warm room temperature. Moving at a slower pace with less heat, these intro classes are great for those dealing with injury, who would benefit from modifications to postures in the sequence. Also serves as a great prenatal class! Appropriate and beneficial as well for more advanced students to slow down the practice, focus on alignment and breath, deepen into a pose, and practice mindfulness of movement at a slower pace in a less hot room.

Non-heated yoga

Oasis Flow and Vinyasa
Through creative vinyasa sequencing, conscious alignment, breath awareness, meditation and relaxation, we bring you Oasis Flow, MYBO’s signature non-heated Vinyasa class. With sequencing honored in every class as we move through the asanas (poses), there is an organic unfolding where each step prepares us for the next. Our monthly yogic themes begin each class and are infused throughout along with musical playlists to inspire movement, contemplation and joy. Every class begins with OM, breath centered gentle warm-ups, sun salutations, and has elements of creative standing pose sequences, powerful arm balances and inversions, heart opening backbends, detoxing twists, deep forward folds and hip openers, along with meditation. Each session concludes in blissful relaxation.

Oasis Power & Tone  
YOU have got the power! Work with yourself and not against yourself in the discovery of your potential, breath by breath. Converge mental, energetic, physical bodies to transform unnecessary tension into genuine truth – Satya.
Practice to remain true about whom you are, in touch with your capabilities and your nature, where your living power originates and expands. Focus on full body toning and core strengthening paced in an energizing sequence that will make you sweat and detoxify from daily body wastes. Most importantly, you will discover your unique breath of life and source of inner strength! If you are curious about the feeling the sensations of your living power, and are ready to breathe the layers of your existence, this class is for YOU!

Oasis Yin
Let your body and mind relax and renew in Oasis Yin Yoga classes. Accessible for any age, level, and physical ability. Yin Yoga helps to offset the active hectic lives many of us live in the DC area, so it's good for beginning yogis all the way to advanced practitioners. Yin Yoga focuses on the deeper connective tissues of the body through postures that are held for several minutes at a time, allowing your body and mind to relax into stillness and mindfulness. Leave class feeling space and release in your body's fascia, ligaments, and joints while also finding a sense of calm and peace of mind.