Scarsdale Yoga Studios is the premier destination for yoga and wellness in Westchester County, located in the heart of Scarsdale village. It is the first full-spectrum yoga studio of its kind, offering a wide variety of classes, workshops, therapeutic treatments, a café, and premium amenities. With a beautifully designed 7,000-square-foot space, unparalleled quality of instruction, and vast schedule of classes, Scarsdale Yoga Studios attends to every detail for the ultimate yoga practice and lifestyle.

Descriptions

Bar Blast

Integrates the fat burning format of interval training, the muscle shaping technique of isometrics, the elongating principles of dance conditioning, and the science of physical therapy to create a revolutionary new workout that quickly and safely reshapes your entire body.

Core Flow

This class is meant for those with an intermediate/advanced practice looking for a challenge that combines vinyasa flow with a strengthen and stretch component for the abdominal and lower back muscles. Kick your practice up a notch and expect any combination of challenging arm balances, inversions, and backbends mingled in with standing balances.

Deep Flow

Using precise alignment techniques you will go deeply into postures in a safe way that leaves you feeling energized and empowered. The class will weave through poses with a perfect blend of holding and flowing, leading you on an exciting adventure through the body, and mind. Perfect for students that are looking for inspiration to go deeper into their practice on all levels.

Flow & Restore

Flowing, creatively sequenced postures linked with breath. Characterized by fluid movement, graceful transitions and breath coordination, it is often physically vigorous and sometimes referred to as “meditation in motion”. Flow into Restorative with a sequence of postures supported with blankets, bolsters, blocks, and straps, and held for extended periods of time to allow for profound relaxation and healing.

Gentle Hot Flow

Gentle Hot Flow links poses to breath to invite students to develop body awareness through a slower, more mindful, movements in a fluid sequence. Beginners are encouraged to use modifications and props while intermediate and advanced practitioners are open to explore more challenging variations. All students will create a better understanding of themselves within their specific abilities and every one will experience a sense of balance and revitalization during the process.

Hot Fuse Flow

Is more than your average yoga class! This class is designed to challenge you by offering the combined benefits of multiple movement modalities to help tone, strengthen, stretch and heal your bodies tissues. In this class, we utilize some traditional, and some not so traditional yoga techniques, resulting in increased physical strength, detoxification through breath and sweat, increased flexibility and increased range of motion through flowing movements and deep stretching. Be prepared challenging the body from every conceivable angle until breakthroughs occur!

Hot Music Flow

Music Flow is a challenging yet accessible vinyasa-based class designed to seamlessly integrate breath with movement through a dynamic flow. Take your practice to a new level while rocking out to an ever-changing playlist bound to ignite your spirit while transforming your mind and body.

Hot Power Hour

Make lunchtime count! This class will get your heart pumping and help build lean muscle, while at the same time detoxifying and stretching your entire body. An intense practice followed by a well deserved relaxation. Sweat it out in our hot studio and glow for the rest of the day!

Hot Vinyasa

The SYS hot studio maintains a temperature of 95 degrees during class to relax tight muscles, heighten the cardiovascular aspect of yoga, and promote detoxification of all physiological systems. This fast paced practice is vigorous and powerful, improving strength, muscle tone, and endurance while creating incredible energy and a radiant glow.

Iyengar

Guruji BKS Iyengar introduced his precise system of practice to the West in the late 1960s. Iyengar Yoga uses the physical reality of the body to better know our minds, and develop understanding of the deepest parts of ourselves. This intelligent practice uses props such as blankets, blocks, and straps, to facilitate learning and to help adjust yoga postures to individual needs. SYS features the specialized equipment of the “Great Wall” system to offer specific techniques and props for the Iyengar practice.

Jivamukti Basic

Each Jivamukti Basic class is part of a four-week fundamentals course that explores a different theme each week:

  • week one: standing asanas
  • week two: forward bending asanas
  • week three: backward bending asanas
  • week four: inversions, meditation and "putting it all together."

Whereas in the Beginner Vinyasa and Open class vinyasa is emphasized, in the Basic class alignment is the emphasis. Students are taught “how to do” asanas as well as the use of props. The Basic Class provides the underlying structure to help a student be able to eventually enter into an Open class intelligently and safely. Beginners are encouraged to take all four weeks of the Basic course. Intermediate and advanced students will also benefit from exploring the alignment essentials presented in these classes. It is advisable that a student register for the full 4 week program starting with week one, but a student can also drop into any class at any time during the month and can also take as many classes as they want each week. This class is suitable for beginners, but open to all levels of practitioner. The length of a Basic class may differ at different centers, so please check the schedule for the center you are attending.

Jivamukti Open

Whether you're a beginner, deciphering the difference between vrksasana (tree) and sirshasana (headstand) or an advanced yogi who can put both feet behind their head, the Jivamukti Open class welcomes you, as it is open to practitioners of all levels.

You work at your own pace, following the teacher's verbal as well as hands-on guidance. Asana options will be provided for beginners, intermediate and advanced students.

A typical Open class incorporates the five tenets of Jivamukti Yoga:

  • shastra (scripture)
  • bhakti (devotion)
  • ahimsa (kindness)
  • nada (music)
  • dhyana (meditation)

An Open class presents classical yoga teachings as relevant to one’s life on and off the mat, drawn from the Focus of the Month essay, supported by chanting, breath awareness, flowing vinyasa sequences, alignment exploration, hands-on assistance, relaxation and meditation. All Open classes include 14 points—asanas, meditation and spiritual teachings—in a sequence creatively designed by the teacher.

The class is called “Open” because it is open and suitable to all levels of practitioner. Even so, beginning level students should know that there will not be much detailed “how to do” descriptions; for that a student is advised to attend a Basic or Beginner Vinyasa Class. The length of an Open class is 90 minutes.

Meta Fit

This is a full body training class that implements different tools and modes of training such as TRX, dumbbells, sandbags, bodyweight, gymnastics, Olympic lifts, anaerobic cardio and is always different each time. Learn how properly training in this fashion can help your body burn calories for up to 36 hours post workout.

Parent & Child (strong walkers - 3 yrs)

Partner with your toddler in simple animated poses, games, art, music and breathing exercises that help to strengthen coordination and build body awareness. We'll bark in downward dog, hiss in cobra pose and flutter our wings in butterfly, while we take a yoga journey that your child will never forget! This fun class provides key bonding methods between parent and child, while strengthening their growing muscles. Caregivers welcome. Class is 45 minutes

Pre-Natal

Strengthen mind, body and spirit in preparation for labor and delivery with a 1 hour class designed to help expectant moms deepen their experience and enjoyment of pregnancy. Class includes yoga postures to address and relieve the common discomforts of pregnancy; relaxation techniques and breathing exercises to ease fear and anxiety; abdominal and pelvic floor toning to enhance postnatal recovery. This class is beneficial after your first trimester of pregnancy.

Pre-Teen

Help build strength and flexibility with more physically challenging postures and flowing sequences. Promote self-confidence, awareness and control. Visualization and breathing exercises are used for overall balance and concentration, which can be applied toward everyday situations. Partner and group poses are emphasized. Age appropriate yoga games are included in every class.

Power Flow

Fast-paced and vigorous, this empowering and fluid practice builds heat and energy to connect the mind and body, gain strength, release stress, and lead you to your own personal edge of challenge.

Red, White and Yoga ( Hot or Cold)

In this Vinyasa-style class, you will use postures (asanas) and breathing techniques to achieve a variety of health benefits. You will flow through a series of postures that are synchronized by the breathe as you wind down from your week. This class can help you achieve increased muscle strength, endurance and flexibility while reducing stress levels. This class will be followed by complementary wine and light fare. Clients have their choice of enjoying this class in our hot studio or in our non-hot studio.

Restorative

A sequence of postures supported with blankets, bolsters, blocks, and straps, and held for extended periods of time to allow for profound relaxation and healing. Tension is slowly released from muscles, joints, and connective tissue at the deepest levels. An ideal practice to help calm the mind, heal the body, or balance an active lifestyle.

Sports Specific Yoga

Through the use of yoga techniques, this class has been designed to help athletes achieve optimal performance by reducing the chances of injury, improving mental focus, and reducing recovery time. This class should be taken in conjunction with a regular training program specific to the sport of the individual, but will certainly provide countless advantages and benefits to the athlete and provide a well-balanced strength training program

Strala

Strala is a style of yoga known for its laid-back, energetic and open vibe. Straightforward and unpretentious, it’s a yoga revolution that connects you back inward, leaving space to carve out a strong and capable body, and calm, focused mind. Strala is a movement-based system of yoga that allows people to feel in to the full range of themselves; flowing while building strength, balance and flexibility evenly throughout the body while resting the focus calmly on the breath

Vinyasa

Flowing, creatively sequenced postures linked with breath. Characterized by fluid movement, graceful transitions and breath coordination, it is often physically vigorous and sometimes referred to as “meditation in motion”. This style was developed and introduced to Western culture by the guru TKV Desikachar.

Yoga for Beginners

Beginning with a meditation/centering and some gentle warm-up movements, we transition through asanas (postures) which may range from basic to moderate, with options to modify towards gentle or vigorous. All levels are welcome.

Zumba

Are you ready to party yourself into shape? That’s exactly what the Zumba® program is all about. It’s an exhilarating, effective, easy-to-follow, Latin-inspired, calorie-burning dance fitness-party™ that’s moving millions of people toward joy and health.