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Yoga Classes in Athens, GA
Yoga offers an opportunity to truly Feel Free. Free from busy minds, packed schedules, self judgment, stress, and anxiety. Through mindful movement and breath, yoga helps you reconnect with your body and show up more fully in your everyday life.
At Feel Free Yoga + Wellness Studio, we offer welcoming and inclusive yoga classes in Athens, GA for all levels. Our Athens yoga studio provides a variety of yoga and Pilates classes, making it easy to find a style that fits your needs. Whether you are new to yoga or have an established practice, there is a class for you here. If you are just getting started, be sure to check out our New to Yoga information below.
Our schedule features a range of yoga classes in Athens, GA, and we are always open to feedback from our community. If there is a type of yoga in Athens, GA you would like to see us offer, let us know. We love shaping our classes around what our community wants and needs.
Yoga + Pilates in Athens, GA
Class Offerings
Beginner
Moderate
Intermediate
Advanced
All - Levels
Yoga Flow
Yoga Flow (Vinyasa) is a style of yoga characterized by stringing postures together so that you move from one to another, seamlessly accompanied by regulated breathing.
Yoga
Hatha based yoga uses poses and breathing techniques to align and calm the body, mind, and spirit. Classes are generally focused on holding the pose instead of flowing.
Yin
Yin yoga is a slow-paced style of yoga where poses are held for generally 3 minutes or longer targeting the deep connective tissue in our body.
Warm Yoga
Our studio uses gentle infrared heating which penetrates the body improving circulation and relaxing muscles. We will offer a variety of yoga classes in our heated space. Warm Yoga is heated to around 85 degrees.
Chair
Feel Free chair yoga is a modified version of Hatha Yoga. Improves flexibility, relieving stiffness, increasing energy and creating a happy mental state. Great class for seniors and anyone at any age not wanting to practice on a mat.
Restorative yoga is a restful practice that holds yoga poses for a longer duration using props like yoga blocks, blankets, and bolsters. It is a practice of deep relaxation that emphasizes the meditative aspect of yoga—the union of body and mind.
These are Classical Pilates mat classes, which stay true to the method created by Joseph Pilates. By focusing on the six principles of Pilates (control, centering, concentration, precision, breath, and flow) during each class, we create a deep mind/body connection while creating stretch and strength in our muscles.
This open-level class focuses on beginner to intermediate exercises, with a strong emphasis on building core (or “powerhouse”) strength and proper alignment. It’s an essential starting point for anyone new to Classical Pilates, as it lays the foundation and teaches the key principles and exercise order needed before safely and effectively moving into intermediate or advanced work.
Restorative
Pilates
Open Level
Pilates Mat
Inter/Adv Level Pilates Mat
This is a fast paced class, where we continue to work on the intermediate exercises with a focus on transitions, and begin to add in some advanced exercises. Regular attendance in Kim's classes is needed before joining the Int/Adv level class so that you have a strong foundation of the exercises in your body.
Advanced Level Pilates*
Our Advanced class offers challenging transitions, seamless flow, and the full advanced repertoire.
*Because knowledge of the classical exercises and order is essential, instructor approval is required. Students should first complete the Open Level and then the Intermediate/Advanced class before talking to Kim about joining Advanced.
Breathe & Stretch
This total body stretch class begins by stretching and expanding the lungs with deep breathing exercises that strengthen the major muscles of respiration, increase blood flow, lower stress and improve cognitive function. Deep breathing is encouraged throughout the remainder of class which uses a combination of standing, seated and floor stretches, dynamic and static stretches, as well as props to improve flexibility and range of motion from head to toe. Each class ends with supported, constructive rest to allow the body to settle and to release any remaining tension.
Gentle Yoga
The intention of this class is to relax and rejuvenate your body, increase your pain-free range of motion, and bring a calm stillness to the mind. We will practice mindful movement focusing on our awareness of sensations and breath. This is an inclusive class and a style for people who may have less than ideal flexibility or need more time between poses. We will provide an effective, compassionate, non-competitve environment for you and meet you where you are.
Slow Flow
Slow Flow focuses on a series of asanas that benefit the whole physical body with an interweaving of breath work, yoga philosophy, and compassion for each student. Classes offer fewer poses and more space between poses while still retaining the rhythm of a flow yoga class. Poses are held longer, taking several rounds of breath in each pose, and range from gentle to more challenging. Alternative poses and props are encouraged. The slower pace allows time to emphasize alignment, mindfulness of movement and conscious breathing while building strength, stability and postural integrity. This makes Slow Flow particularly well-suited to newer students or more advanced students who desire a more sustainable, mindful practice.
Sound Baths
Sound Baths are immersive, full body, sound healing experience. Please bring a mat or blanket and dress comfortably, you will be lying down for the entire hour. Plan to arrive at least 10 minutes before start time. Stay after for Community Connection and enjoy some refreshments.
Vibrational sound healing has been shown to relax tension in the body, reduce stress, promote restful sleep, clear our minds and give our whole body an opportunity to release and heal.
Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra, or awakened sleep, is an invitation to awaken into deeper states of conscious and subconscious mind during deep rest. Blended with awareness, this practice stimulates a fresh depth of healing and restoration.
Our yoga nidra sessions often include Sound Healing as you are bathed in sound waves and vibrations from the crystal quartz singing bowls.
You may register and sign up for classes online or via our Feel Free Yoga app:
New to Yoga?
We are all about welcoming newbies! Once you walk through those doors, you’ve done the hardest part: showing up. We will do our very best to make you feel welcome, safe and excited about your new journey. At Feel Free Yoga + Wellness Studio, our goal is to guide you, the beginner, through the learning process and help you discover how yoga may best serve you.
If these phrases sound familiar— “I’m not flexible,” “yoga is not for me,”or “yoga is too slow”— please allow Feel Free Yoga to prove otherwise!
Yoga is for those who are not flexible and those who are. Yoga can be intimidating but doesn’t have to be. Yoga can be slow, fast, hard, easy, strengthening, or relaxing. Yoga truly has something unique to offer everyone and every body.
I love teaching a Beginner’s Yoga Class because I remember so vividly how I felt when I first started, and how it took me way too long to really understand what yoga was all about. Let us help with any jitters you might have by putting you together with other beginners.
We offer a True Beginner’s Yoga Class that will help you feel more comfortable and knowledgeable about all things yoga. And when you’re ready, you’ll have the choice to move from a Beginner’s Class to trying other styles of yoga. Remember it’s your body, your practice and your choice.
— Janice Wilson, Founder of Feel Free Yoga + Wellness Studio
You can email Janice@feelfreeyogawellness.com anytime
The practice of yoga provides many physical and mental benefits. Yoga opens up the possibility of connecting to what we already have and to who we already are.
• Relieves anxiety and promotes a sense of peace
• Relaxes the mind and releases tension in the body caused by stress
• Strengthens the body and Increases Flexibility
• Balances our internal system helping with cravings and addictions
• Improves mental health
• Lowers blood pressure and promotes heart health
• Helps with depression
• Aids in reducing chronic pain
• Promotes overall improved health
Yoga and Pilates FAQs
Have questions about our yoga and Pilates classes in Athens, GA? Here are some answers to common questions about class types, experience levels, and what to expect so you can confidently choose the right workout class for your body and goals.
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You are welcome to bring your own mat, but mat rentals are available for a small fee. We provide all other equipment including blocks, straps, bolsters, blankets, and towels for your comfort and support in class.
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We offer two main memberships. The Warrior Membership includes unlimited regularly scheduled 1-hour yoga and Pilates classes, a monthly newsletter, and discounts on merchandise and select services. The Wellness Plus Membership includes everything in Warrior plus a monthly Sound Bath, Yoga Reading Club, two infrared sauna sessions, and additional wellness perks.
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Yes. New students can book their very first regularly scheduled yoga or Pilates class at Feel Free Yoga for free. After that, you can take advantage of our intro offer of two weeks of unlimited classes for $38.
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Yes. We offer 5 and 10 class passes that can be used for regularly scheduled 1-hour yoga, meditation, and Pilates classes in both heated and non-heated spaces.
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Yes. We offer private and semi-private sessions as well as group classes for in-studio or off-site events. We can also create customized wellness events or book a private Sound Bath for your group.