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YOGA STYLES

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Our skilled teachers are all trained to teach "Open Level" classes, which cater to a range of experience and ability. You’re welcome to choose the class that best fits your schedule and the type of yoga you’re looking for.

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If you’re looking for something specific, or would like help reading and understanding our class schedule, you can use this guide:

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Yoga encompasses a diverse world of styles, exotic names, and practices with different forms and purposes. Many of us here in the Nordic countries are familiar only with asana—the physical postures—but mindfulness, meditation, and breathing practices (pranayama) are just as much a part of the yoga system.​ Yoga’s teachings, philosophy, and literature also leave plenty of room for interpretation, which means the experience can vary greatly from one teacher to another. At YHAA, our aim in creating a varied schedule has been to offer you a broad range of classes to choose from, while giving our talented teachers as much room as possible to bring their own approach. At the same time, we’ve organised the classes using consistent terminology and categories.​

Basically, we can divide the team types as follows:

HATHA

Also called classical yoga and the word has both the meaning of ''demanding physical expression'' as well as the fusion of sun/moon, night/day and yin/yang. The applicable principle is that work is done in depth with one position at a time and generally changes and guidance take place at a leisurely pace.

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In addition to the classes called Hatha, we also find Yin yoga here, which primarily deals with sitting and lying positions that are held for a long time to stimulate e.g. fascia/connective tissue. Our Yin teams are available both tempered and with heat added as Hot Yin. In this category you will also find our ''Gentle Flow'' and ''Free Flow''.

VINYASA

Also called flow yoga, where dynamic movement is linked with breath and intention - often with a creative and playful approach. In these classes, you will experience greater variety, both in terms of playlists, position and order, than the typical Hatha classes. 

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The category also contains the many Power yoga classes. ''Morning Flow'', ''Gentle Yoga and Mindfulness'', ''Hot Friday Release'' and ''Sunday Morning Flow''.

SPECIAL TYPES

Such as Aerial yoga, where positions are performed in a hammock, Hot Yoga, where the teaching takes place in a heated room equipped with heating panels designed for yoga use, as well as Kundalini yoga, where work is done with mantra and Kriya (repetition of series of movement, shaking or free dance) . In the latter category you will find our ''Mantra Yoga'', ''Movement and Awareness'', ''Meditation and Relaxation'' and ''Mala Meditation''.

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