Yoga and Movement Class Descriptions

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All of our teachers are well-versed in variations and modifications for all. We have props to assist you with your practice. Everyone well find their own level at wish they want to work.

Vinyasa and Hatha Class Types

Discover Vinyasa and Hatha yoga classes at our studios in Gardiner, NY, serving Ulster and Dutchess County. Vinyasa offers dynamic, flow-based sequences to build strength and flexibility, while Hatha focuses on alignment and mindful poses for balance and relaxation. Join us to enhance your well-being in a supportive, welcoming environment—perfect for all levels!

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Tap into your primal energy and higher self in this upbeat, energizing class designed to build strength, stamina, and flexibility while toning the core and full body. Prior yoga experience is recommended. This dynamic practice awakens, warms, and activates the body through a comfortable yet powerful flowing sequence, deepening the connection between breath and movement. Expect a strong, steady pace that challenges your endurance while keeping you grounded in awareness and control.

Stone Wave Strong Flow
Beginner Friendly
Mixed Level II to III
(Experience Recommended)

Strong Flow Vinyasa is an energizing, athletic-style yoga class designed to build strength, stamina, balance, and focus through continuous movement and breath connection. Expect a dynamic flow of creative sequencing, powerful standing postures, core work, and challenging transitions that will elevate your heart rate and deepen your practice. This 60-minute class encourages you to move with intention, explore your edge, and leave feeling empowered, grounded, and refreshed. Best suited for students with some prior yoga experience or those looking for a more physically demanding practice.

Stone Wave Strong Vinyasa
Intermediate/Advanced
Mixed Levels II to III
(Experience Recommended)

This gentle Vinyasa Flow class is designed to awaken, warm, and energize the body through a smooth, comfortable sequence that deepens the connection between breath and movement. Accessible to beginners through advanced practitioners, the class offers mindful transitions and supportive pacing to help you build awareness and ease in your practice. Expect to soothe the nervous system, lift your mood, and gently elevate your heart rate, leaving you feeling refreshed, balanced, and restored.

Stone Wave Vinyasa Flow
Beginner Friendly
Mixed Levels I to II
(No Experience Required)

Ground your body and mind in this 60-minute Hatha yoga class designed to restore balance and connection. We’ll move through traditional postures, breathwork, meditation, and mindful salutations with the option to align your practice with the current astrological season. Expect a steady, intentional flow with held asanas that support strength, mobility, nervous system regulation, and inner awareness. This class is designed to cultivate homeostasis in both body and mind while helping you attune to the energy and rhythm of the season.

Stone Wave Hatha
Beginner Friendly
Mixed Levels I to II
(No Experience Required)

This yoga flow class is designed to awaken, warm, and energize the body through a steady, accessible sequence that deepens the connection between breath and movement. With smooth transitions and mindful pacing, the practice builds gentle heat while encouraging awareness and ease in each posture. Suitable for beginners through advanced students, this class offers a supportive space to move, breathe, and reconnect. Expect to leave feeling grounded, uplifted, and recharged in both body and mind.

Stone Wave Energizing Vinyasa
Beginner Friendly
All Levels
(No Experience Required)

This class is designed for experienced yogis looking to deepen core awareness and elevate their practice. Expect fluid, intelligently sequenced movement woven with advanced postures, strength-building holds, and dynamic transitions that create a powerful, energizing flow. Ideal for students with a consistent yoga practice, this class invites you to challenge yourself physically and mentally through continuous movement, focused breathwork, and mindful endurance. Prepare to build strength, stability, confidence, and a deeper connection to your practice in a supportive yet invigorating environment.

Stone Wave Energizing Flow
Intermediate/Advanced
Mixed Levels I, II and III
(Experience Recommended)

Yin, Restorative and Meditation Offerings

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Yin + Restore is a deeply calming, meditative practice designed to help you slow down, soften, and fully unwind. This class blends long-held yin postures with restorative shapes supported by props to gently release tension in the connective tissues, increase mobility, and encourage deep relaxation. With minimal movement and an emphasis on stillness, breath, and nervous system regulation, this practice invites you to turn inward and reset both body and mind. Suitable for all levels, Yin + Restore offers a grounding space to rest, recover, and leave feeling nourished, balanced, and at ease.

Stone Wave Yin & Restore
Beginner Friendly
All Levels
(No Experience Required)

Otherwise known as a VinYin-style practice, this 60-minute class is designed to warm the body from the inside out while creating balance between strength and release. The class begins with an energizing vinyasa flow to build heat, increase circulation, and awaken the body, followed by a grounding yin-inspired cool down with longer-held postures to encourage deep release and restoration. Rooted in the principles of both Hatha and Yin yoga, this practice invites you to explore creative, nontraditional postures while improving flexibility, building strength, releasing tension, and expanding mindfulness. Expect to leave feeling both energized and deeply restored.

Stone Wave Move + Melt
Beginner Friendly
Mixed Levels I to II
(No Experience Required)

Rise + Shine is the perfect way to begin your day. This energizing morning class weaves together breath and movement through flowing sun salutations, gentle stretching, and mindful transitions designed to awaken the body, center the mind, and build steady, sustainable energy. As you move with intention and ease, you’ll create space in the body while cultivating clarity and focus for the day ahead. Leave feeling refreshed, uplifted, and ready to step into your day with presence and purpose.

Stone Wave Rise + Shine
Beginner Friendly
Mixed Levels I to II
(No Experience Required)

Stretch + Breathe is a gentle 60-minute morning practice designed to help you ease into your day with intention and clarity. Through mindful breathwork and accessible stretching, this class supports the body in gradually waking up while cultivating presence and awareness. A balanced combination of supported, sustained postures and basic alignment principles helps release tension, improve mobility, and encourage ease throughout the body. Rooted in therapeutic movement and mindful observation, this practice invites you to slow down, reconnect, and start your day feeling grounded and centered.

Stone Wave Stretch & Breathe
Beginner Friendly
All Levels
(No Experience Required)

Free to Be Yoga is a grounding and intentional practice that weaves together meditation, breathwork, gentle salutations, and slow-flow movement to help you reconnect, reset, and move with ease. This accessible class supports mindfulness, mobility, balance, and overall well-being while encouraging a deeper connection to self. Expect a calming, supportive environment where you can slow down, breathe deeply, and simply be.

Stone Wave Free to Be
Beginner Friendly
All Levels
(No Experience Required)

Begin your week with this intentional Sunday practice designed to help you feel more aligned in body, mind, and spirit. This energy-centered class starts with a grounding guided meditation, breathwork, and intention setting to create clarity and focus for the week ahead. The practice then weaves together yin postures and reflective readings with gentle stretching and a mindful, fluid flow to balance softness and strength. This thoughtful combination supports both deep release and energizing movement, helping you reconnect with yourself on every level.

Stone Wave Sunday Reset
Beginner Friendly
All Levels
(No Experience Required)

Slow down, soften, and restore in this deeply nourishing 60-minute practice. Designed for all levels, this gentle class is the perfect complement to an active, busy, or fast-paced lifestyle. Students will move through a series of supported seated and reclined postures held for longer periods of time to encourage deep relaxation and release. With the use of props and mindful breathwork, this practice helps calm the nervous system, improve flexibility, and promote overall well-being. Leave feeling grounded, rejuvenated, and fully restored

Stone Wave Yin + Restore + Aromatherapy
Beginner Friendly
All Levels
(No Experience Required)

Qi Gong is a gentle mind-body practice that combines slow movements, breathwork, and meditation to cultivate and balance qi (life energy). Rooted in traditional Chinese medicine, this practice can help reduce stress, improve circulation, increase flexibility, and support overall well-being through simple standing or seated exercises.

Stone Wave Qi Gong
Beginner Friendly
All Levels
(No Experience Required)

Fitness

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**Strong Core, Clear Mind** blends mindful movement with intentional breath. This class combines Pilates-inspired core work, mobility, and full-body strengthening with guided breathwork to help you build stability, release tension, and reconnect to yourself. Expect a grounding flow that challenges the body, calms the nervous system, and leaves you feeling stronger, clearer, and more centered — both physically and mentally. Perfect for all levels.

Stone wave Strong Core, Clear Mind
Beginner Friendly
All Levels
(No Experience Required)

This is not a yoga class, but a high-energy, low-impact workout designed to strengthen the body and support your yoga practice. Performed barefoot on a yoga mat, this 60-minute HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) class combines functional movement and controlled intervals to build strength, endurance, and stability while keeping joints and muscles protected. Expect core-focused exercises, improved circulation, increased flexibility, and full-body conditioning — all set to upbeat music that keeps your energy elevated from start to finish. No prior yoga or HIIT experience is required.

Stone Wave HIIT Fitness
Beginner Friendly
All Levels
(No Experience Required)

This is not a yoga class, but a low-impact strength and conditioning workout designed to complement and support your yoga practice. Performed barefoot on a yoga mat, this 60-minute class focuses on functional movement patterns that protect the joints while building strength, stability, and endurance. Expect energizing, full-body movement that strengthens the core, improves circulation, enhances flexibility, and supports overall mobility. Set to upbeat music, this class keeps your energy high and your body moving with intention. No prior experience is necessary — all levels are welcome.

Full Body Strength
Beginner Friendly
All Levels
(No Experience Required)

Pilates is a wonderful complement to your asana practice. This floor-based workout uses your own body weight as resistance to build core strength, flexibility, and stability while improving balance and overall body awareness. Light hand weights, resistance bands, and Pilates rings will be provided. Suitable for all levels.

Stone Wave Mat Pilates
Beginner Friendly
All Levels
(No Experience Required)

Prenatal, Kids + Family

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Prenatal Flow Yoga is a slower-paced 60-minute vinyasa practice designed to support expecting mothers both physically and emotionally throughout pregnancy. This nurturing class emphasizes mindful movement, breathwork, meditation, pelvic floor awareness, restorative postures, and gentle core strengthening to help build stamina, stability, and resilience. Each practice is designed to support the changing body, encourage relaxation, and cultivate a deeper connection between parent and baby. Suitable for all stages of pregnancy with modifications offered throughout.

Stone Wave Gentle Womb Flow
Prenatal
Partners and Families Welcome
(No Experience Required)

Explore the asanas and new ways to play with yoga shapes and move to music. This 50 minute program offers a loving, supportive environment for your children. They will learn stress management skills, body awareness and healthful choices - all while having FUN! This is for ages 5-10, no prior yoga experience required.
**Included in the class:**
•Yoga Mats and Props (bolsters, blocks and blankets available)
•Playful props (scarves, musical instruments, etc.)
•Storytime
•Energetic kids songs

Stone Wave Kids Music + Movement
Kids
Ages 5 to 10
(No Experience Required)

Through yoga, play, creative movement, and music making, both song singing parents and children alike will together enjoy experiencing an exuberant expression of their bodies, minds, and spirits. This 45 minute class is for walking to age 4, no prior yoga experience required.
**Included in the class:**
•Yoga Mats and Props (bolsters, blocks and blankets available)
•Playful props (scarves, musical instruments, etc.)
•Storytime
•Energetic kids songs

Stone Wave Family Flow for Babies + Toddlers
Kids
Toddler and Guardian Experience
(No Experience Required)