About Yoga

Experience daily yoga classes for everyone from beginners to advanced!

Strengthen your body, mind, and spirit at the Mesa Rim Yoga Center. From absolute beginners to advanced practitioners, our yoga classes in San Diego welcome all levels to deepen their yoga practice. Discover how to build flexibility, increase endurance, and prevent injuries through a variety of classes taught by experienced instructors ready to safely guide your practice.

Our San Diego yoga studio offers a variety of yoga classes, such as yoga for kids, yoga for beginners, power yoga, and Ashtanga yoga improv. Several of our classes are designed purely for relaxation, while others are designed to teach your body how to move in new ways.

The Mesa Rim yoga studio is spacious with beautiful bamboo flooring and an abundance of natural light. We have some yoga mats available for you to borrow free of charge in case you forget yours or don’t yet have a mat of your own. Come see why we’re one of the best Yoga Studios San Diego offers. If you’d like to purchase yoga mats and apparel, our Proshop has just what you need.

Find the right yoga class today to develop your flexibility, strength, and balance—all of which are great skills for climbing!
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Styles of Yoga

At Mesa Rim Yoga, we offer a variety of yoga styles for everyone from beginners to advanced students. Here’s a brief overview of the styles our instructors teach, and we encourage you to explore all of them to find the one that speaks to you:

Ashtanga

Ashtanga (also spelled Astanga) means “eight limbs” in Sanskrit, which refers to the eight limbs of yoga laid out in the Yoga Sutras of Patajanjali. There are six different Ashtanga series through which a student progresses at his or her own pace. Once students know the order of poses, they may attend self-led, or Mysore style practice. Ashtanga yoga is an extremely popular, vigorous, and athletic style of practice.

Anusara

Founded in 1997 by American yogi John Friend, Anusara means “flowing with grace.” Anusara classes are lighthearted, positive, and fun. They are not easy, however, as they include vinyasa flow and a lot of alignment work. Anusara encourages the use of props making classes accessible to students of differing abilities.

Power

Power Yoga is a general term used in the West to describe a vigorous, fitness-based approach to vinyasa-style yoga. Most power yoga is closely modeled on the Ashtanga style of practice. Unlike Ashtanga, power yoga does not follow a set series of poses. Therefore, any power yoga class can vary widely from the next. What they have in common is an emphasis on strength and flexibility.