Open Space Yoga Studio

Dance With Your Heart and Your Feet Will Follow. Alaska's ONLY IDTA certified dance studio. IDTA is the world's leading Association of Dance Teachers. Our classes are created as a fun and friendly learning environment for everyone.

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Old school aerobics combined with modern fitness techniques that will have you sweating and smiling at the same time! Gain Strength, Endurance and Confidence with your new high intensity cardio fix! Easy to follow choreography perfect for all ages and stages of fitness, set to upbeat music you know and love!

This class will be a Trauma informed movement and meditation practice. Start with a strong and grounding sequence followed by a gentle, relaxation practice to nourish and connect to the body. The class is designed to help cultivate our own inner strength and confidence and to recognize and utilize available supports both within and around us to aid in the recovery process. Our goal: sustained long term recovery while building community, friendships, and additional support structures. "The opposite of addiction is connection"

Move with presence and purpose in this gentle, mindful practice designed to nurture the connection between breath, body, mind, and spirit. Guided at a slow, intentional pace, this flow encourages you to deepen awareness of each movement and sensation, cultivating a sense of inner calm and spaciousness. Through conscious breathing, fluid transitions, and grounding postures, you'll explore how mindful movement can support emotional balance, mental clarity, and spiritual connection. This class is suitable for all levels and ideal for anyone seeking a restorative, meditative approach to their yoga practice.

Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga is the Father of the yoga ‘flow’ movement that has swept the industry from the gym scene to the world of hot yoga and back again to its roots in India. Here we take a look at the dynamic primary series: build heat in the body with sun salutations, continue with standing postures and finish with a seated sequence, backbends and inversion. The goal is to remain true to the form using steady breath to guide us through the practice while also finding ways to keep the practice safe, sustainable and nurturing. All Levels Welcome.

This is a pay-what-you-can community practice that weaves together the 8 limbs of yoga in an approachable way. Great for folks who are yoga-curious and seasoned practitioners alike, Yoga Basics will guide you through a dynamic asana practice with emphasis on the fundamental postures, transitions, and basic breath awareness techniques (pranayama). Throughout the practice, you can expect to learn about yoga philosophy, beyond movement and breath, and how to apply the lessons from yoga to daily life - the real practice. All bodies are welcome and honored. Mats, blocks, blankets, bolsters, straps and eye pillows are available at no extra cost. Please contact the studio for any questions. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Expect to move your body, expect to relax deeply. Flow and Restore is a practice designed to explore the strength, stability, and confidence-boosting qualities of Vinyasa Yoga, paired with the deeply nourishing, stress-relieving qualities of Restorative Yoga. The physical corner of class will include flowing sequences with a focus on creative and accessible movement. The restful corner of class will be an invitation to slow down and experience the soothing postures and stillness. Fine tune your vessels and explore the practice of radical rest.

In this class children will begin learning the basic ballet steps and movements that will be the foundation for any dance style. A fun and friendly class for anyone wanting to learn to dance. It is an on-going class, broken into 10 classes per session.

Our Adult Ballet Fitness class is a 45 minute class combining ballet techniques with stretching and toning to create an environment that is both fun and fulfilling. Whether you’re a seasoned dancer or just someone who wants to improve your fitness, this class is perfect for you.

This class provides a fun introduction to Ballet for our youngest students. Children will enjoy learning movements, rhythm and coordination in their first steps into the ballet technique. It is an on-going class, broken into 10 classes per session.

Kundalini Yoga is an art and a science; a beautiful melding of creativity, intuition, and precision. Every aspect of this practice works to heal our bodies, increase our awareness, and allow us to fully embrace and enjoy this experience of being human.

This introductory class is perfect for any little dancers whether it’s their first time in a class or if they’ve already tried other styles. Children will get to have fun dancing to current music and beginning to learn the very basic movements and steps.

For our junior dancers, this fun class builds on the basics to jump into the Modern Jazz syllabus. Children will learn new steps and enjoying dancing to fun uptempo music. A perfect class for anyone who loves to dance!

Nurture yourself and discover a grounded place within so that you can deal with the chaos and bustle “out there”. Expect a soothing and slow pace, lots of props, longer holds, and deep relaxation. This class aims to cultivate stillness, patience, ease in the body, and self-love.

These Mindful Movement classes are designed primarily for those over 50 years of age who are in good physical condition, but might have some limitations that the aging process brings to us. We begin by finding our breath in pranayama, then move gently to get the joints and muscles warmed up. Next, we practice sequences of vigorous standing and balancing poses to get the heart rate up and muscles stretched; looking for mindfulness and calm through the expression of the poses. Class ends with peaceful, restorative postures to bring all aspects of our practice together.

Time to dispel the myth that a woman is debilitated during her pregnancy! Here, a community of expecting moms practice yoga in a fun and safe environment to prepare the heart, hips, breath, and mind for the birthing experience. Kundalini Kriyas (“Keep-ups”) build mental stamina and calm the nervous system, while specific Hatha Yoga postures help soothe backache, pelvic pain, and other common discomforts related to pregnancy. Every class offers a nurturing atmosphere in which to connect with your baby and other women, and restore vital energy during this sacred time in your life. Appropriate from day 1 all the way to full term. No previous yoga experience necessary.

Explore unique hip-opening postures with some longer holds and fun ways to build strength in the core and beyond. The hips complete the union of the lower body with the heart and head. A healthy hip joint includes stability from well toned deep abdominal (core) muscles, and a balance of strength and elasticity in the back and hamstrings. This class will complement the active Alaska lifestyle by preparing the body to absorb the shock of hiking, biking, running, skiing, etc. The hips hold a treasure trove of emotions, secrets, and history. When we focus a regular asana practice around the hips, it is natural for more profound layers of the body to unfurl, release and eventually heal. Practice may include warming flows, longer holds, advanced postures, inversions, chanting, and pranayama.

Join this warm and approachable circle to experience the soothing sounds of Sanskrit, the ancient, vibrational language of Yoga. Chants will be shared in a call and response format and follow with a deeply restful svasana (relaxation) and / or seated meditation.

All Levels Yoga meets your body where it is. Expect a yoga class grounded by traditional asana (poses), dhyāna (meditation) and pranayama (breathwork). Classes may be physically challenging, but will always offer variations to accommodate the needs of your unique body. Yoga instructors may include the use of blocks, straps, blankets, bolsters and balls to share their favorite sequences and techniques from a variety of lineages. All bodies are yoga bodies Just show up and see what happens… you might move or breathe in new ways that reacquaint you with the best version of yourself.

With strength of body, comes a powerful and calm mind. Come to this class prepared for a full spectrum and challenging yoga sequence. Expect vinyasa, core strengthening, longer holds and balancing postures. All levels welcome.

Here is an active and fun way to promote the physical, emotional and social development of children. Yoga helps to bring out kids’ inner self and utilize their unique qualities in a positive way. Your child will gain coordination and body awareness through creative poses, storytelling, games, breathing exercises and more. No registration necessary. Just show up.

Learn the fundamentals of belly dance in this friendly and energizing class. Here, we gain understanding that will be the building blocks for a variety of dance forms.

Workshop, Dance Svia Rothstein Cacao Ceremony with Ecstatic Dance Register soon. It always sells out!

A modern twist on an ancient Mayan ritual which starts with drinking a potent cacao-based drink. Facilitated breathwork and meditation guide you into a deep state of presence and awareness. Feel the energy start to really flow as we transition into ecstatic dance fueled by electronic dance music (EDM) and a killer sound system.