Anthem Gyms and Fitness

With locations in Scottsdale and Fountain Hills, Yoga Village is something of a fixture in the greater Phoenix community. It doesn’t hurt that the studio emphasizes building relationships almost as much as it does helping people get in shape through yoga. Certified instructors teach nearly 60 yoga classes per week, meaning that everyone from experienced yogis to absolute beginners can find a suitable class. Restorative yoga classes help release chronic tension, while flow styles combine yoga sequences with fluid movements designed to generate body heat. When students aren’t arching their backs and barking ferociously in downward dog poses, they can attend the studio’s monthly workshops and teacher trainings.

Bikram Yoga AZ’s coterie of certified instructors leads students through Bikram yoga’s 26 poses matched to two breathing exercises. Within a studio heated to at least 100 degrees, students flow through poses that strengthen and stretch muscles, ligaments, and joints. Each posture is designed to work muscle groups needed for the next pose, building a series of interconnected movements. Each posture helps to temporarily decrease blood flow to specific areas of the body, sending in a rush of freshly oxygenated blood to joints, organs, and limbs when yogis unfold from folds and twists, unblocking the tiny traffic jams of hemoglobin.

Floo-id Yoga's atmosphere radiates warmth in both the literal and figurative sense. Owner and certified yoga instructor Beth Beary takes a friendly and inclusive approach to each of her yoga classes. Whether they are performed in 87- to 90-degree heat or at room temperature, she welcomes students of all experience levels to hone their practice with her. During hot yoga and hot flow, the modern practice space warms up to help muscles melt deeply into stretches while preventing injury and detoxifying the body. The more gentle, slower-paced classes—such as restorative and yin yoga—utilize supportive props and a focus on meditation to nurture the body and mind while calming skittish spirit animals.

Zone Athletic Performance’s certified staff of performance coaches, a licensed massage therapist, and a chiropractor tend to full-body well-being with signature workouts and treatments in a 13,000-square-foot facility. They keep bodies guessing with new workouts revealed during one of 36 ZoneFit classes offered per week that challenge each trainee no matter his or her fitness goals. When not helping amateurs build muscle and tone their bodies, the staff caters to professional athletes who stop by for off-season training.

Tony Pearson and TJ de Angelis don't lean on their college educations to train athletes. Instead, they draw on years of competitive athletic experience ranging from Division I football at Oklahoma State University to Division II baseball at New Mexico Highlands University. When they offer advice on dealing with a sports-related injury or disability, they know it from firsthand experience. Together, the two trainers help young athletes and their families find a balance by creating a training platform that addresses every aspect of the athlete, including the part of them that wants to fit into their high school-prom tux again.

Omnibalance's trainers mostly work to design functional exercise programs to improve exercisers’ mental and physical strength. By creating regimens that improve endurance and physical capabilities, the team of trainers can prepare their students for specific sports or provide all-around athletic training for young athletes or anyone seeking to gain a greater degree of wellness.

Like the opposite of eyelids, the curtains at Scandalesque open to a dream world of garish costumes, pyrotechnics, circus arts, and sensuality. This nexus of fantasy and real life is produced in-house and performed by Scandalesque’s troupe of professional burlesque artists. Leading them, cofounders Lady Fontayne and Pyrrha Sutra, as they're known on stage, strive to curate an atmosphere where outlandishness flashes atop proper technique and artistry. When the troupe isn’t pushing the envelope and toppling mailmen, they’re teaching burlesque, adult-dance, and fitness classes throughout the week.