Sometimes our dreams are within reach, but more often, those dreams are on the highest of high shelves, beside the BB gun and the cupcakes "for tomorrow." Reach that shelf with today's Groupon: for $44, you get one month of unlimited yoga classes at YogAsylum in Brookfield (a $138 value).
YogAsylum provides a home for the rainbow of yoga styles and systems that range from Hatha and Vinyasa to Qi Gong, or Chinese yoga. YogAsylum's friendly, enthusiastic instructors are experienced and know how to help students sweat and stretch until they're calmer, more energized, and more revitalized than the 217 rechargeable AA batteries that power Greater America. If you're new to yoga, this is a great chance to learn the downward dog, upward dog, and the omniscient narrator. Yoga stretches your muscles, relieving stiffness and pain; it also increases flexibility and strength (deep core muscles support each pose), which will improve your range of motion, balance, and posture, all vital to moving up in the corporate world, seeing over the steering wheel, and slicing your morning bagel.
The studio is a founding business member of the Green Yoga Association and takes pride in giving back to the environment, and the yoga it teaches bestow bodies and minds with countless benefits. Those who take advantage of this Groupon will get free parking and can rent a mat for $2, and customers who opt to become full-time devotees will have their initiation fee waived upon signing up for an automatically renewing monthly membership. Check the schedule for upcoming sessions.
YogAsylum
The most practiced students at YogAsylum are not the ones who can touch their toes—they’re the ones who know how far they can safely reach. Fueled by the belief that yoga is an individual experience, the instructors prioritize personal exploration of physical limits over competition. They put this principle into action while leading classes that accommodate guests of any experience level and cover styles such as Hatha, Vinyasa and Yin. Using provided props, bolsters, and blankets, they help students ease their bodies into more challenging poses. Because they advocate a holistic approach to spiritual health, they offer more than drop-in classes—they provide energy healing and spiritual counseling in addition to therapeutic massage in their wellness center. They also hold musical events, special workshops, and a registered Yoga Alliance teacher training program that has been approved by the Wisconsin Educational Approval Board.
YogAsylum is one of the largest studios in Wisconsin, and was built from scratch to incorporate eco-friendly principles and elements of feng shui. Its cork floors diminish joint discomfort in students stretching beneath energy-efficient bulbs, and movable walls can easily resize the space to accommodate bigger groups and alter the difficulty of life-size games of Pong.
