Our Yoga Classes
Each week we offer a variety of classes at our beautiful new studio located in California, MD. Preregistration is required for all classes and any late cancels/no-shows will be charged. Clients have up until two hours before the start of class to cancel their reservation.
In addition to our in-person classes, Evolve Yoga + Wellness offers Livestream options for select classes. Preregistration for all Livestream classes is required in order to receive the necessary login and access information for the class.
Restore
Foundations
Vinyasa
Flow
Ashtanga
Evolve Signature Classes
Restore
A nourishing and gentle class that combines elements of Restorative and Yin yoga practices that will restore you physically and mentally. Beginners and seasoned practitioners alike will benefit from the pace and inward-focus of this class. Soothing and restorative, it melds yin + restorative yoga in a complimentary way to help you channel quiet and calm in your body. Class involves passively holding poses with the support of props (blankets, blocks, and bolsters) to promote increased energy flow, balance, and the quieting of a busy mind. Expect to leave feeling restored and renewed.
Flow + Restore
A beginner class that’s also the ideal refresher for any level practitioner. Incorporating simple flowing sequences to warm up the body, as well as slower-paced movements focusing on alignment, strength, balance, and flexibility. Explore anatomical alignment, how to incorporate breathing, and learn what poses feel like in your body as well as how to make adjustments to help yourself find optimal alignment in the pose. This class is the best way to lay a solid foundation. Starting with the basics offers the tools, guidance, and confidence you need to move forward with your practice.
Foundations
A beginner class that’s also the ideal refresher for any level practitioner. Incorporating simple flowing sequences to warm up the body, as well as slower-paced movements focusing on alignment, strength, balance, and flexibility. Explore anatomical alignment, how to incorporate breathing, and learn what poses feel like in your body as well as how to make adjustments to help yourself find optimal alignment in the pose. This class is the best way to lay a solid foundation. Starting with the basics offers the tools, guidance, and confidence you need to move forward with your practice.
Vinyasa
A Vinyasa practice focuses on linking the movement of the body to the breath and offers a variety of standing and seated postures so that no two classes are ever identical. The variable nature of vinyasa yoga helps to develop strength, flexibility, and balance. As a philosophy, vinyasa recognizes the temporary nature of things. We enter a posture, are there, and then we leave. With guided instruction, alignment cues and carefully curated music, this practice will guide you through a moderately paced series of postures. Options and modifications may be offered.
Align + Flow
A signature Evolve class combining traditional Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga styles that challenges both beginners and advanced students alike with a thoughtful arrangement of poses (asanas). Each class will focus on alignment, and increase body awareness, strength, and flexibility while refining foundational yoga postures. This class will also introduce more demanding postures that are sure to increase stamina. Options and modifications will be offered, allowing you to move at your own pace and challenge yourself just as much as feels good to you in each moment. Each class offers a unique sequence designed by your teacher and incorporates props into the flow.
Flow 360
Flow 360 offers all the great benefits of yoga, but with a twist. The additional attention to strength (particularly with light hand weights and bands) along with a little cardio blast session if for the yogi who wants to move in a whole new way. This class incorporates segments of yoga flow with weights and/or band, then cardio (no weights), topped off with some final asana and balancing poses before hitting the mat for savasana.
Hot Power Vinyasa
Evolve’s Hot Power Vinyasa practice combines our signature Vinyasa class with all the benefits of infrared heating. A challenging and dynamic power vinyasa class that includes creative flow rooted in intelligent vinyasa sequencing. With guided instruction, alignment cues, and carefully curated music. This class focuses on alignment and breath, encourages creativity in your practice, and renews both body and mind. This class is practiced in a heated room (90°-95°).
Restore
Foundations
Vinyasa
Flow
Ashtanga
Evolve Specialty Classes
Tai Chi
Tai Chi, as it is practiced in the west today, is thought of as a combination of yoga and meditation. There are a number of “forms” (sometimes called “sets”) consisting of a sequence of movements. Many of these movements are originally derived from the martial arts. And perhaps even more ancestrally than that, from the natural movements of animals and birds. But, the way they are performed in Tai Chi is slowly, softly and gracefully with smooth and even transitions between them, making this a moving, meditative practice.
Kids Yoga + Crafts
In this playful, interactive class, children ages 5-8 will learn age-appropriate yoga poses, yoga games, breathing techniques, and relaxation. The class will support body and breath awareness, build stability and strength in growing children, and share mindfulness techniques. Classes will incorporate music, cooperative games, and creative movement to experience the benefits of the practice. Class ends with relaxation time followed by making a craft to take home after the yoga class. Participants should bring a yoga mat.
cOMmunity Meditation
Meditation has been proven to reduce stress, control anxiety, promote emotional well-being, enhance self-awareness, and lengthen attention span.
Join Chip Guffey for a monthly evening Guided Meditation. Chip will lead you through different types of meditation—sound, breath, mantra, and more—to help you find a practice that resonates with you.
Prenatal + Postnatal Yoga
Appropriate for all levels of fitness, working with all stages of pregnancy and beyond. The emphasis of this class will be building strength, increasing stamina and flexibility, guided breath work, and relaxation to prepare the mama-to-be both mentally and physically for the birth of her child. Some focus will be placed on squatting and hip opening, using gravity to aid in the birth process.
For new mamas, the days and weeks following the birth of your child can be challenging. Yoga helps to speed your recovery, reconnect you, mind, and body, and aid in battling postpartum depression by joining a community.
**Please get the okay from MD or Midwife before beginning**
BarreOM
This low-impact class uses mindful movements that will challenge you from the inside out. Each class begins with an affirmation to facilitate mind-body engagement then zeros in on hard-to-target muscles using isometric holds, pulses, squeezes, abdominal work, dynamic movement, and bursts of cardio for a full-body ultimate form-focused flow of movement Combining functional movement and traditional barre, yoga, and Pilates methods to build strong bodies. In this 50-minute class, students may use equipment such as free weights, bands, and/or gliders. Warm BarreOM features wonderful movement in an 80-85 degree heated room.
Strength + Flexibility Yoga
This class will work on the principles of traditional yoga postures with a focus on improving strength & flexibility. Flexibility Yoga will work on traditional yoga postures to develop strength, flexibility, balance, mobility, and focus. This class aligns with the yogic principles of Stira / Strength and Sukha / Ease to create balance in the body, mind, and spirit. Breathwork and alignment will be emphasized. Suitable for all levels.