| Knoxville, Tennessee is home to a growing community | | | | alignment of the body while holding postures. |
| of yoga enthusiasts, including many excellent yoga | | | | Kripalu Yoga: Kripalu Yoga integrates yoga postures |
| teachers. This is great news whether you're an | | | | and breathing with meditation, making it as much an |
| advanced practitioner interested in trying out different | | | | inward experience as it is an outward exercise. |
| yoga styles or you're a beginning yoga student | | | | Classes range from gentle to vigorous. |
| shopping for your very first yoga class. | | | | Kundalini Yoga: Kundalini Yoga is an intense |
| Whether your interest in yoga is for physical fitness, | | | | combination of purifying, energetic movements with |
| for the health benefits yoga offers any number of | | | | breathing and chanting to awaken energy centers |
| conditions and illnesses, or purely spiritual, you will surely | | | | called chakras. |
| find a yoga style and teacher you like with a little | | | | Prenatal and Momma-Baby yoga: Yoga can enhance |
| shopping. | | | | a healthy birth and keep mom in shape afterwards. |
| The number of yoga styles and traditions can be | | | | Vinyasa yoga: Vinyasa, flow, and power yoga is the |
| daunting, so here is a list of what yoga you can find in | | | | movement from one posture to the next connected |
| Knoxville, TN with a brief description. To find a studio | | | | by the breath. Usually the flow is based on the sun |
| that offers what you think you'd prefer, simply search | | | | salutation and the pace of movement between poses |
| on Google or your preferred search engine. | | | | is fairly fast, but that is not always the case. The |
| Ashtanga Yoga: Ashtanga is one of the more athletic | | | | classroom is sometimes heated for increased flexibility |
| forms of yoga still rooted in tradition, emphasizing | | | | and body purification. |
| movement through a prescribed series of postures. | | | | Yin Yoga: Yin Yoga targets the connective tissue - |
| Hatha yoga: Hatha literally means 'forceful,' though it is | | | | tendons, ligaments, and cartilage - for increased |
| often attributed to gentle yoga in the West. Any form | | | | flexibility. Postures tend to be held for longer periods as |
| of yoga incorporating body postures and breath | | | | a restorative technique. |
| control could be said to be hatha yoga, including all the | | | | Best wishes in finding the right yoga class for your |
| other types of yoga listed in this article. | | | | particular needs, and welcome to the Knoxville yoga |
| Iyengar yoga: Iyengar yoga emphasizes precise | | | | community! |