10 Unique Yoga Classes You’ve Never Tried Before

Yoga offers multiple benefits to physical and psychological health. It’s mindfulness and a workout in a single session. If you only tried vinyasa, power, or aerial, you’re missing out on some fun. Try joining these ten classes to spice up your yoga practice.

Noise Yoga

Noise yoga combines vinyasa and experimental music to achieve a deeper meditative state. Instead of the typical prerecorded ohms, gongs, or Buddhist beats prevalently played during a session, contemporary music provides a new experience to students.

Hotpod Yoga

Hotpod yoga is a hot yoga with a spin “designed for real life.” It’s unique because it provides an ideal environment for doing vinyasas and asanas in inflatable studios known as pods, heated to 98.6 F. You’ll enjoy the calming music and scents inside and achieve optimal relief from stress when you’re zipped away from the outside world.

Goat Yoga

As the word implies, you do yoga with the addition of adorable goats that interact with you. It’s no different from the usual yoga scene at a studio, but it’s often held on farms. If you’re lucky, you’ll enjoy a heart-pumping flow, a cool breeze and cute baby goats. You get a good workout and an opportunity to bond with farm friends.

Floating Yoga

Does a session on the ground seem ho-hum? Take the art of yoga to the next level by floating in water. You perform easy poses on a floating board in a pool. The goal is to keep your balance on a wobbly surface, working your core muscles so you don’t fall into the water. However, it’s even more fun if you do.

Surfset

Surfset is similar to floating yoga but on dry ground. The surfboard’s unstable bases are leveraged to strengthen the core and other main muscles while doing yoga poses. It can be difficult at first due to the shaky bottom, but it can be an ideal toning workout with practice.

Doga, Cat, or Bunny Yoga

Do you want to do yoga with your pets? Doga, cat, or bunny yoga can make your workout more social and fun. Joining classes accompanied by your fur babies can promote mental wellness and boost your bonding with them.

Laughter Yoga

Laughter is the best medicine, and integrating it into yoga makes it especially beneficial and playful. Laughing can strengthen your immune system, reduce stress, and make you more positive.

You get a good workout and set your happy hormones on fire. Laughter yoga classes are performed in groups. As you move and transition to different poses, you add in voluntary giggles, laughs, and eye contact. When the session ends, you’ll be sure to be in a good mood.

Underwater Yoga

This type of yoga is perfect if you have mobility restrictions caused by sore or tight muscles, such as back spasms. These issues can be relieved by low-impact activities, and moving underwater is gentler on the joints and injuries. These classes are offered mainly by diving schools and combine yoga and diving to help you unwind and increase your comfort in underwater surroundings.

Heartbeat Movement

Heartbeat movement is a fusion of vinyasa and kundalini. The focus is to sync the breath with each movement with the help of live drumming. Each drum beat sets the pace for each pose and succeeding movements, helping the mind to connect deeper to the body.

Snowga

A snowga class should be your priority if you need fitness inspiration during cold weather. It blends yoga and snowshoeing. Many enjoy doing it to shake up their usual routine as an alternative to skiing to warm muscles and joints. Doing downward dogs on snow sounds like a fun thing to do.

Find What Form of Yoga Suits You

There are many versions of yoga, and exploring them can ultimately lead you to a single practice you want to keep for the long term. Whether you attend floating, hotpod, or laughter yoga, each session should help you harmonize the mind and body. In this state, you can de-stress and boost your mental health.