Yoga in Wells Branch

Under the studio's 24-foot ceilings, students cycle through 26 poses during 90-minute heated Bikram classes. More than 50 classes a week are taught by passionate instructors, and childcare services are offered four day a week to keep kids under 12 occupied while their parents twist atop mats. On Sundays, tots can strike poses of their own in the Youth Yoga classes.

The 5,500-square-foot space also houses a yoga competition team, a meditation class, and a boutique, all of which encourage enthusiastic practitioners to integrate yoga into their off-the-mat lives. In addition, massage therapists stand by to perform Swedish, deep-tissue, and sports massages as well as shiatsu sessions to help ease aches and pains, which could have been caused by commuting to work via clown car.

Your Yoga's experienced instructors propel yogis of all levels toward physical fitness and inner peace during engaging one-hour classes. Vinyasa yoga's deep, focused breaths knit upward-facing-dog poses and cat-cow stretches into dance-like sequences. Blocks and blankets bolster restorative yoga routines, which feature seated poses that melt stress and gently stretch the muscles until they stop flexing in protest. With minimal chanting and not a single commercial break, power-yoga sessions focus on athletic, Ashtanga-style poses that build strength and flexibility. Your Yoga's blue-floored studio also finds room for Thai bodywork, a relaxing therapy that blends trigger-point massage with assisted stretches designed to ease pain, increase mobility, and improve posture.

Walls are important, functionally speaking, but the team at Trio Life Fitness finds the decorative potential in its four—with humans—during wall yoga classes. The studio's certified instructors attach students to adjustable harnesses and straps, then guide them through exercises that can be vigorous workouts of the back, chest, and hips without placing stress on the joints. It's just one of several yoga styles they offer, in addition to restorative, Ashtanga, flow, and Vinyasa yoga.

The Trio Life staff also teaches Trio Fit sessions, a fusion of flexibility exercises, Pilates-based strength training, and spin, for which guests should bring their own laundry machine. During spin classes, a certified instructor leads up to 15 students in pedaling toward cardio health—behind them, a vibrant orange mural shows a sunset and mountains as purple as a plum. Pilates and spin join yoga as their specialties, and the schedule features an abundance of each Monday–Friday, as well as at least one class Saturday and Sunday. These classes are the pillars of the curriculum because they hit the three aspects of the studio’s "trifecta of fitness"—cardio, strength, and flexibility.

BeneFIT’s team of certified Bikram yoga instructors leads students of all experience levels and body types through 90-minute Bikram yoga classes. Working in a room heated to 105 degrees with 50% humidity, students follow a specific sequence of postures with two breathing exercises. Instructors encourage students to work to the best of their ability, even if some days that means sinking in a pool of sweat. But thanks to the detoxifying moves, students can expect to build strength, flexibility, and balance, and to lose weight and alleviate chronic pain through regular practice.

Del Sol Martials Arts & Fitness began not in a sweaty gym where young athletes learned to love exercise, though that is a chapter in its story. Its true origin lies in a kindergarten classroom where Thomas Leverett and Claudia Castro first met. The pair attended every year of school together, eventually celebrating when Thomas earned the title of Sifu and began his own Mantis-style kung fu school, and again when Claudia became a certified yogi. She joined him to start teaching, and together their family reached out to others to train them in fitness, discipline, healthy lifestyles, and 20-year courtships.

Today, students flock to their gym to study Northern Shaolin Seven Star Praying Mantis–style kung fu, a lineage for which Sifu Leverett is an official guardian. Claudia guides students through the equally ancient traditions of Ashtanga- and Vinyasa-style yoga. The duo even offers private cooking classes to teach how to create delicious, healthy meals or light stovetop burners simply by lifting up another stove and placing its already lit burners on them.