Class Rates:
Drop-in: $15./class
4 Class Card $50.
8 Class Card $88.
20 Class Card $180.
One Card.... all classes!

Monthly Unlimited Pass $160.
Yearly Unlimited Pass $1600.

All Class Cards and Unlimited Passes are non-refundable and non-transferable.
Checks, Cash, Visa/MC accepted

Discounts for Seniors (over 65), Students & Military w/ID
$12/drop in, or 10% off Class Cards

For NIA class description, see "What is Nia?"

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YOGA- Classes at the Synergy Studio

The Synergy Studio is excited to offer a dynamic group of Certified Yoga Instructors to guide you through a variety of yoga styles. We offer over 11 different yoga class options, and over 24 classes a week. Workshops focusing on the many aspects of the Yoga Tradition are taught monthly, by our Teachers who have the highest levels of certification and experience.

We invite you to join the Synergy Sangha, (community), as a beginner or an advanced practitioner. We welcome you to join us in class, a workshop, and a cup of tea.

Yoga Hatha: Hatha Yoga is the most widely practiced form of yoga in the world. Hatha Yoga uses Classic postures (asana) and conscious breathing (Pranayama) in combination with mental focus to develop awareness, strength and flexibility, and relaxation. These skills are practiced in fundamental poses both seated and standing.

Through proper alignment and mindful actions of the body, Hatha Yoga brings balance, strength, and a sense of well being to the practitioner. All Hatha Yoga classes end with Savasana, relaxation.

The class is appropriate for all levels

Yoga- Gentle Hatha: Gentle Yoga is a form of Hatha Yoga that is a gentler, slower paced practice to make it more accessible to people of all sizes, ages, and fitness levels.

Gentle Yoga is a great place to start for those who just want to take it slower. The focus is on warming up the body, connecting with the breath and beginning to work the joints and glands. It creates an atmosphere of safety and comfort that fosters self-acceptance.

This class is a wonderful beginning class. Appropriate for all levels

Yoga Hatha Flow:Hatha Flow links the postures practiced in a regular Hatha class into a sequence of movements that flow with the breath in a more vigorous series.

Hatha Flow involves moving from one posture to another with some instruction in between and creates a strong cardiovascular workout. Variations on the Sun Salutation are often used as a warm-up, followed by a standing sequence, balancing poses, and then seated poses. There is not a set sequence of postures, each class is different providing the student with a unique class, each time they approach their practice.

This class is recommended for the student who has practiced Hatha Yoga and is interested in exploring a movement-oriented class. This is a multi-level class. Instructions for modifications are given.

Yoga Vinyasa Flow: Vinyasa - The word Vinyasa translates as, to place in a special way. The common understanding of Vinyasa is a flowing sequence of specific asana coordinated with the movement of breath. Vinyasa requires that we cultivate an awareness that links each action to the next, one breath at a time. In asana a posture is an experience that we arrive at not only physically, but also mentally and emotionally as well.

These classes use a vigorous flow of postures designed to warm the body, and build stamina, strength and flexibility. Students should expect to move continuously throughout the entire class. Each class is creatively constructed; there is no single rulebook, philosophy or sequence and the classes are unique from class to class, guaranteeing a different experience each time you step on to your mat. Students are encouraged to move at their own pace.

A basic knowledge of Hatha Yoga poses and alignment is encouraged, before attending a Vinyasa class.

This is taught as a multi- level class

Yoga Power Vinyasa:This class takes the previous format, of Vinyasa Flow, into a more vigorous, fitness-based approach to the vinyasa- style of yoga to create an increase in stamina, strength and flexibility.

It is recommended you have a strong practice and experience in Vinyasa style classes to attend this class.

Yoga- Surya Namaskar, the Sun Salutation

Surya Namaskar is an energetic, moving meditation that builds upper and lower body strength, opens the heart, energizes the mind, and stretches everything out.

Bring the sacred into your day while also getting your blood pumping and having fun in this hour-long, early morning class!

Monday and Wednesday mornings
6:45-7:45am

Yoga Hot Vinyasa Flow: This is a Vinyasa Flow style, practiced in a heated room. Our Hot Vinyasa Flow classes are based on the Indian tradition of practicing in the heat. By practicing yoga in a room heated to 85-95 degrees, the muscles and joints are gently warmed improving flexibility and relaxation. Sweating cleanses the body of toxins and aids the bodys ability to heal itself. Conscious deep breathing promotes mindfulness in your practice.

Please prepare yourself by hydrating throughout the day before class, bring a bottle of water and a towel with you to class! A basic knowledge of Hatha Yoga poses is encouraged before attending a Vinyasa Class.

All levels of practitioners are welcome.

Yoga- Iyengar Style : Iyengar Yoga is a form of Hatha Yoga that focuses on precise alignment of the physical body. It is known for its use of props such as straps, blocks, bolsters and chairs to aid the student in practicing the asanas (yoga postures) more easily, and as a supported tool for restorative poses. Props allow for a deeper penetration into the posture as well as a longer stay. Based on Patanjalis eight limbs of yoga, it is oriented towards developing strength, stamina, flexibility and balance in the practitioner.
Yoga is for everyone! A certified Iyengar Yoga teacher can guide students of all ages and physical conditions to an experience of yoga which is safe, accessible and rewarding. Iyengar Yoga instructors are held to an unusually rigorous standard, and only after years of training and evaluation do they become certified. Students will learn a sequence of poses, which builds the students skill and understanding from posture to posture, and from class to class. Students are encouraged to develop their own home practice; without one, the study of yoga is incomplete.

Iyengar Beginning Level : Students will learn the standing poses as a basis for acquiring correct alignment, which will later be carried into seated poses (forward bends and twists), and preparation for backbends & inversions. Basic breathing techniques will be taught and students will learn to integrate breathing with body movement. Each class ends with restorative poses and Savasana, or deep relaxation.

Iyengar Intermediate Level : Students will learn the inversions and the next level of backbends, forward bends, and twists. Pranayama (breath refinement) will be introduced.
Requirement: Students must have the knowledge of alignment and the physical ability to safely progress to the next level of practice: The student has attended weekly yoga classes for at least 6 months, and be able to practice inversions such as Shoulderstand and Headstand with wall support.

Yoga For Lunch : You deserve a break today!

Join us for an hour Yoga class during your lunch hour. You can order your lunch at the front desk, and pick it up from the restaurant as you leave the Pearl Brewery Complex.

This class is taught in the Hatha Flow style, leaving you relaxed and energized to continue through the day. Break up your day, and return to work with a clear mind, and relaxed body that will help concentration and productivity. We invite everybody, new to yoga or an accomplished yogi to this class.

Yoga Restorative : Restorative Yoga is a mindful, relaxing practice that uses props to support the body in poses, allowing you to open your body through passive stretching Gentle guided breathing will help sooth the tired mind.

The supportive postures gently open the body to deep relaxation and healing. This class is appropriate to all levels of students, and an important part of your total yoga practice.

Yoga for Athletes: This is a class specifically designed for runners, cyclists and all of those who would enjoy a more vigorous experience. The class focus will be on breathing, opening the hips and strengthening the upper body.
The temperature of the room will be warm and towels and water are recommended.
This class is appropriate for all levels of yogi but come prepared for a challenge.

Yoga-Kundalini : Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan is often called the Yoga of Awareness. It is a dynamic style of yoga designed to take one on an exploration of consciousness. Within each class, we use mantra (sound vibration), asana, pranayama, meditation, and relaxation in order to bring changes in the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies. Kundalini Yoga works to strengthen the nervous and glandular systems, enhances intuition, and strengthens the energy field of the practioner. You are invited to journey within, eyes closed, and tune in to your truth. Sat Nam

Yoga-Kundalini and Meditation Rest and Rejuvenation! Ready to start the week rested and refreshed? Join us on Sunday evenings at 7 p.m for a quiet journey into the heart of awareness. We will explore gentle posture, meditation and pranayam practices that facilitate and deepen our ability to rest and renew. You will find practical tools that may help ease your way into slumber and bliss.

Yoga- Peace Through Presence

Bringing mindful awareness to the present moment through the practice of yoga asana and mindfulness-based meditation practices.

Join Tara as she fuses two complimentary practices - yoga and mindfulness meditation - to help you bring greater awareness to your moment-to-moment life and a sense of peace and joy in the fullness of life. Mindfulness meditation is a central practice of Buddhism and when considered from a yogic perspective, it is the 6th limb of Ashtanga Yoga - dharana.

Join a class focused strongly on mindful presence in the moment through the use of verbal cues, breath-count practice, and mindful body scan...all while enjoying many of the yoga asana you love!

About the instructor: Tara is a Yoga Alliance registered yoga teacher (RYT200). She has been practicing yoga on and off the mat for the past 10 years and teaching for 3 years. She graduated from the Esther Vexler Yoga School last spring. Tara has also been a mindfulness meditation practitioner since 2003. She has practiced with Thich Nhat Hanh's Order of Interbeing in addition to sitting with various American and Japanese Zen groups in Hawaii. Given the name, Mindful Presence of the Heart, by Thich Nhat Hanh, Tara strives to live a heart-centered life and brings that energy to her own yoga mat as well as to the classes she teaches. Off the mat, she is a mental health and chemical dependence therapist, an online college facilitator, and a dog-loving hoop-dancer with a penchant for throwing hoops into the San Antonio River.

Yoga iRest, Yoga Nidra: INTEGRATIVE RESTORATION - Meditation.

iRest is a profoundly transformative; evidence based practice that leads to lasting psychological change, as well as physical and emotional healing. It teaches how to live a contented life, free of conflict, anxiety and fear and suffering by revealing our inherent ground of health and wholeness of mind and body.

iRest teaches us how to embody skills that we can use throughout our lifetime, that provide us with a sense of confidence when encountering difficult situations, and teaches us how to embody joy and well-being throughout our daily life. iRest is comprised of a 10-step process that helps heal the various internal conflicts present in our body, mind and hearts. iRest participants report that they...Sleep much better, Experience Decreases in insomnia, Just feel happier, Feel their depression, anxiety and fear are all reduced, Feel greater comfort and ease in their body and mind, Experience decreased perceptions of chronic and acute pain, Feel more connected in their interpersonal relationships, Have improved interpersonal relations, Feel more comfortable when encountering circumstances they cannot control, Feel an increased calm and well-being You will be lead through breath, body and energy awareness that will help to lift the stresses of your daily and lifelong existence.

This mediation is experienced lying down, supported by bolsters and blankets; please wear comfortable clothing. This class is taught in a workshop format. Check the events page for details.

In the end, we recognize how simple life is when we accept this moment, just as it is, without pretending to be other than who we are. This is grace in action and the culmination of iRest. ~ Richard Miller

Introduction to Yoga : This class is ideal for the complete beginner and those students who want to learn about more about Hatha Yoga .

The class is Team taught by Synergy Instructors providing a comprehensive, hands on approach to yoga instruction , that includes Asana, (poses), Pranyama, ( breath work) and foundational Yoga philosophy. The poses taught in this class will build a solid foundation of strength, balance and flexibility as you are taught basic standing, forward folding, gentle twisting and back-bending postures.

There are two teachers in each class to teach and assist your learning of Yoga as a safe and energetic practice. This is a wonderful opportunity to interact with the instructors and ask all the question you might have about yoga, and learn how to strengthen, open your body, and calm your mind.

You will be provided with a textbook. We encourage you to bring your own Yoga Mat and blankets.

This class is taught in a 5 week workshop format. Each class is 2 hours long

Mat Pilates: Matwork will combine the Joseph Pilates classics with the contemporary work of First Generation teacher Ron Fletcher and Master Teacher, Pat Guyton. A Pilates practice benefits clients with a body that is much stronger, more flexible and better balanced. The class is taught so that all levels will receive a motivating and challenging workout.

Introduction to Mat Pilates: This series is based on Joseph Pilates’ 34 mat exercises presented in Return To Life, published in 1945. The class will explore Pilates fundamentals for audible breath, posture and alignment, simple to complex movement and spinal mechanics. The class will have an experience of each exercise. This workshop is ideal for beginners as well as intermediate to advanced students/instructors seeking to execute the Pilates method with more precision and grace.

Zumba fuses hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves to create a one-of-a-kind fitness program that will blow you away. Our goal is simple: We want you to want to work out, to love working out, to get hooked. Zumba Fanatics achieve long-term benefits while experiencing an absolute blast in one exciting hour of calorie-burning, body-energizing, awe-inspiring movements meant to engage and captivate for life!

Tai Chi: Tai Chi is a centuries old holistic art form that incorporates exercise of the physical, mental and spiritual. Class includes both static and dynamic qigong (bioelectric energy/breath work) and the practice of the Chen 18 Essential Form. Tai Chi theory and practical application are important components of each class as are relaxation and having fun.

Qigong: Qi is the body's life force energy which is responsible for our vitality. Gong means skill, work or foundation.

Qigong (sometimes written as Chi Kung) then is the practice of accumulating and cultivating vital life force energy (qi) in the body. This is achieved through the coordination of physical exercises, meditation and visualization, and breathing exercises. Qigong developed into a systematic healing art that integrates body, mind and spirit and is a main branch of traditional Chinese medicine.The effects of qigong practice include prevention and healing of disease, relief from stress, improved physical strength, improved mental focus, improved sexual function, spiritual enrichment and a slowing of the aging process.

Tai Chi and Qigong are taught by Fred Chavez who has been a tai chi (taiji) and qigong practitioner since 1992. During that time he has studied the Chen, Yang and Sun styles of tai chi and numerous forms of qigong.

He has been a Certified Tai Chi for Arthritis (TCA) Instructor with the Arthritis Foundation since January 2007. In December 2008, he became a Certified Instructor of Evidence-Based Taiji and Qigong (EBT) with the Center for Taiji and Qigong Studies. (www.centerfortaiji.com)

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