Class Descriptions

Curious about what to expect from our classes?  Check out the descriptions below!
Questions about what styles of yoga would serve you best? Drop us an email at 4yoga.me@gmail.com or message us on Facebook or Instagram.

To review each month’s offerings, see our online class schedule.

We hope to see you at a class soon!

Basics

Features instruction in common yoga poses, explores breathing exercises, and connects breath to body movement. Focuses on healthy alignment.  Teachers provide and demonstrate variations of poses to help students practice at their own levels. Often includes versions of sun salutations.

Beginner
(offered occasionally, registration and advance payment required, 90 min., $20)

Introduces common yoga poses, including alignment principles and variations.  It also introduces breathing and relaxation techniques. To allow plenty of teacher-student interaction, the class is limited to 5 students. Pre-registration and pre-payment is required. The cost is $20 per student. Check out the 4yoga newsletter or the 4yoga social media sites for more information. (Social media links: Facebook, Instagram.)

Flow

Our most vigorous class, Flow moves at a faster pace than Basics and/or includes more challenging poses.  Students are still encouraged to take variations appropriate to their bodies.  However, Flow provides less direct instruction in and demonstration of those variations than Basics classes.  Often includes versions of sun salutations.

Gentle

Focuses on creating balance in the body and mind while maintaining or enhancing strength and flexibility. Provides a slower-paced class, highlights variations in poses, and emphasizes progressing at one’s own pace. Incorporates props, including chairs. Welcomes participants who prefer sitting in a chair instead of moving up and down from the floor.

Restorative

Encourages students to relax deeply by using props like bolsters, blocks, and blankets for support while sitting or lying on the mat.  Holds those supported poses for a longer time, typically 5–10 minutes.  Helps release tension in both the body and the mind.

Basics/Restorative

Hybrid class that combines the movement of a Basics class with the stillness of a Restorative class. The first 40 minutes focuses on common yoga poses and healthy alignment, helping the mind and body come into stillness. The last 30 minutes encourages students to relax deeply in supported, restorative poses.  

Yoga Nidra (60 min.)

Provides guided instruction to promote deep relaxation while retaining awareness. Practiced reclining on the floor or seated on a chair.  Helps reduce stress, manage mild depression and anxiety, and connect with one’s inner being.

General class information

Course fee, length, and location:  to fulfill our studio’s mission of making yoga affordable and accessible, all regular 4yoga classes are drop-in (no registration required unless noted), and the class fee is $10.  Classes last for 70 minutes unless otherwise noted.  

Classes meet in the studio upstairs at The Pots Place (428 East Main Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky—overlooking Fountain Square). Enter through the front door of The Pots Place, which will be open at least 20 minutes before class, and follow the large wooden staircase up to the studio.

Mats and props:  we provide yoga mats and props (e.g., blankets, bolsters, blocks, straps, chairs) at the studio and at no additional charge. However, if you have your own and prefer to bring them, you are always welcome to do so.