Yoga in Newburg

The Gumby-like founder and executive director of YOGAmazing, Chaz, is a certified instructor with years of impressive experience under his yoga mat. From developing the globally successful YOGAmazing Video Podcast on iTunes to being recognized by Yoga Journal, Chaz incorporates his effervescent attitude and passion for life into all classes. His airy, spacious studio is geared toward students of all skill sets. The class schedule includes nighttime vinyasa-flow yoga, early morning hatha, and a special Wednesday session exclusively for Groupon passes (though your pass allows you to take any yoga class you choose). You can view the complete schedule here.

While working toward becoming certified yoga teachers, massage therapists, and personal fitness trainers, the students of Lexington Healing Arts Academy complete hundreds of hours of hands-on training. They put their fresh knowledge into action, leading classes and working with clients to promote natural healing and wellness.

In addition, the center is home to certified instructors who lead a variety of classes on body alignment, pose execution, and proper breathing. These sessions include beginner yoga, which helps to establish a basic knowledge of yoga while improving general well-being, as well as Happy & Healthy Backs, which gently builds strength and flexibility to support each body's most important spine.

Julie Keel first fell in love with yoga while practicing poses and overlooking the Pacific Ocean. This fusion of yoga and the outdoors, she felt, deepened her connection between the mindfulness of each breath and her body's movements. Since founding Rivers Edge Yoga, she has helped her clientele seek that same link through both outdoor and indoor yoga classes. With class types from Yin to Hatha, her instructors emphasize combinations of challenging poses, breathing exercises, chanting, and meditation. The studio's Yoga In The Park classes—which start in the fall—give yogis a chance to flirt with trees while in tree pose and heckle begrudged hares while in tortoise pose.

Brick Oven Yoga’s certified instructors grant budding yogis the personalized attention needed to help guide them to their health and fitness goals during a schedule of yoga classes. Brick Oven Yoga’s supportive group environments allow barefoot pupils to breath easy as they stretch their way through traditional hot-yoga sessions, which turn up the heat in the studio to intensify calorie burning, detoxify the body, and increase participants’ flexibility so they can easily slide passed rapidly closing garage doors. Specially designed workout balls support contorting exercisers throughout Yamuna body-rolling sessions designed to elongate and align physiques, boost circulation, and decrease stiffness.

Yoga For Real’s Cheri Harvey radiates lighthearted humor and a positive attitude as she guides students toward inner peace, spiritual epiphanies, and supportive friendships with fellow yogis. Harvey draws upon her extensive training to lead Hatha and Kundalini classes filled with classic poses, deep-breathing exercises, and meditation techniques. To promote safe exercise, she emphasizes proper alignment frequently—during stretches, standing poses, sun salutations, and whenever students need to parallel park—and happily modifies movements to suit each student's strength and flexibility.

Intent on fueling students’ personal growth, Harvey supplements her workouts with workshops on topics such as controlling clutter and setting boundaries with friends and family, as well as couples yoga. She also leads private sessions geared toward helping trainees reach goals such as building home-based yoga practices or shaking up future business meetings with unexplained breathing demonstrations.

Before becoming one of Indiana's regional yoga champions and the third-ranked woman at the national yoga competition in New York, yogi and studio owner Ayanna Brown was out of shape and suffered from chronic asthma. One would never guess this after watching her elegantly execute Bikram Choudhury's 26 postures, but she didn't begin practicing yoga until a broken leg left her looking for a rehabilitation regimen that involved no pogo sticks. Though the extreme heat took its toll on her body and lungs during the first class, she kept at it, and has practiced six days a week ever since. Today, asthma free and leg in tact, she shares her passion for the heated yoga style with students of all experience and fitness levels in her own Southern Indiana studio.