Let's Find Your Perfect Yoga Class!
We've grouped our class descriptions into five categories to help you decide where to start.
Not sure? We'll help you choose!
New/Beginner or Returning to Yoga
All Levels Yoga
For Beginners through Advanced
Ideal for seasoned beginners as well as more advanced students. Your teacher tailors modifications and gentle individual feedback to each student's ability.
Level 1 Yoga
A Perfect Place to Start
Perfect if you're brand new to yoga or want to get back to basics if you haven't practiced yoga in many years. Emphasizes poses that align, strengthen, and promote flexibility. Includes breathing techniques and meditation. Emphasizes student understanding, safety, and stability within each pose.
Intermediate & Advanced Classes
Level 2 Yoga
Requires 6+ months of Alignment-Based Level 1 or All Levels Yoga
While still focusing on yoga foundations, this class introduces more challenging poses and also introduces more Sanskrit terminology. This is an alignment-based class.
Yoga Wall
Requires 3+ months of Alignment-Based Level 1 or All Levels Yoga
Meet our yoga playground! Practice basic poses more confidently and progress to more challenging standing poses, back bends, forward bends, inversions & more. Our Yoga Walls use semi-suspension and natural gravity to help you increase your flexibility, open the spine and deepen poses while recruiting otherwise disengaged muscles and reducing pressure on certain parts of the body.
Level 3
Requires 12+ months of Alignment-Based Level 2 Yoga
In this alignment-based class, explore more challenging movements including variations of the poses you learned in Levels 1 & 2 plus new, more challenging poses including inversions, arm balances, and strength-based poses. Students need to be proficient with the use of all props, familiar with Sanskrit names of poses, and to have an understanding of inversions including shoulderstand with blankets.
Strength Training for the Yogi
Requires 3+ months of Alignment-Based Level 1 or All Levels Yoga
For Level 1 & up. We will use body weight, the Yoga Wall, and other yoga props to improve strength in your core + upper and lower body.
Health & Mobility & Special Topics
Back Care Yoga
Suitable for anyone
Learn yoga poses specifically selected to help prevent and improve chronic back pain. You'll strengthen your posture and alignment of the neck and spine, relieve tight muscles and improve shoulder, back and hip flexibility.
Chair Yoga
For Anyone Seeking Safe Seated Movement
Experience breathing exercises and simple yoga poses in a safe, comfortable seated position that helps you strengthen muscles and joints, increase your range of motion and flexibility, and relieve stress. Your instructor helps you adjust each pose based on your individual comfort level. Classes include optional supported standing and floor variations. Easily incorporates use of a walker, cane or wheelchair. Also a good class choice if you wish to avoid extended standing or getting up/down from the floor.
MELT Method
Work with connective tissue to reduce pain
Join Valerie, MELT Level 2 Certified Teacher, to experience changes in how your body looks and feels. The connective tissue in your body gets dehydrated and causes common aches and pains. MELT helps to rehydrate this essential system in your body for vibrant health and pain-free movement! We will use the MELT Method Hand & Foot Therapy Balls and the Soft Foam Roller.
Pop-Up Classes
Class for self-care
We offer many classes per month that we call "pop-ups" that are not on the weekly schedule. Examples include Yoga for Anxiety, Yoga for Depression, The Power of Your Breath, Moving from Level 1 to Level 2, and lots more. Sign up for these classes as you would any other class.
Meditation/Mindfulness/Relaxation/Yoga Philosophy
Restorative Yoga
For anyone wanting relaxation
Our bodies have an innate ability to relax given the right circumstances. Restorative yoga uses a series of easy, supported poses held for a long time under the right conditions (including the use of many props) to tip the balance from “fight or flight” mode into maximal relaxation. Yogis developed these poses over many years, but science tells us that, under the conditions set in restorative yoga, immediate effects on heart rate, blood pressure and brain activity are possible. Emphasis on complete muscular relaxation and comfort are emphasized to achieve a quiet state of mind and body. The classes are in the style of Relax & Renew author, Judith Lasater.
Yoga Nidra
For anyone wanting relaxation
Enjoy an hour of guided relaxation in what is known as “yogic sleep.” Nidra brings us to a state of deep relaxation, where our senses, intellect, and mind can completely let go and rest. One hour of this yogic sleep is said to give the same benefit as four hours of sleep. Nidra helps decrease fatigue, rejuvenate the brain, reduce stress, increase concentration, and improve memory. Experience a spiritual awakening while enhancing overall energy. Taught by iRest certified teachers.
Yoga Beyond the Mat
For anyone wanting to learn about yoga beyond the poses
A discussion-oriented class for those who are interested in learning more about yoga philosophy and applying yoga principles in daily life. The class incorporates various methods of exploring yoga philosophy with elements of lecture, book club, informal support group, meditation, pranayama, and asana woven in.
Private Yoga Classes & Yoga Therapy
Private Yoga Classes
Suitable for everyone
Plan private one-on-one classes with a Sunrise yoga teacher, at our studio or another location - or via Zoom, tailored to your interests, health issues and schedule, and free of the distractions of a group class.
1-on-1 Yoga Therapy
Suitable for everyone
Work one-on-one with Sunrise founder Valerie Kiser, E-RYT 500, certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT) since 2007 and co-founder of East Coast Yoga Therapy, among the first 30 yoga therapy programs worldwide to be accredited.
Valerie's clients have found that yoga therapy is an important self-care option for conditions like IBS, anxiety, cerebral palsy, low back pain, depression, pelvic floor pain and fibromyalgia, using yogic principles of movement, alignment, breathing, meditation, conscious relaxation and more.