Yoga Wellness Center

Starting with its roots in the River Region in 2008, MJ Yoga is the only certified heated Hatha and Ashtanga yoga studio in Montgomery, as well as the only certified Yoga Alliance 200 RYS School for training yoga teachers in the area. MJ Yoga offers a slate of 20-30 group classes per week, along with personalized private sessions created around the specific needs and convenience of clients. All instructors are certified/registered through the Yoga Alliance, meaning that they have endured at least the minimum of 200 hours of training.

Focused on the ancient culture of yoga as well as its contemporary practice, The Yoga Wellness Center makes yoga exciting for people who are used to other forms of physical exercise, but find that yoga gives them more than they were expecting. Teachers have different strengths in different areas, each offering something new and diverse.

We offer Hatha yoga, Levels 1-3, Beginner’s yoga,Gentle Yoga, Mixed Basic level classes, Mysore, Yoga for Athletes, Hot Yoga, Ashtanga classes, Bandha Barre, and more . If group classes are not something you are interested in, then start with getting private lessons from one of our instructors. The Yoga Wellness Center has an option that will fit your needs. We serve clients with very diverse physical conditions, from the extremely fit to those needing deeper healing, specialty practice, or recovering from injury. We can work with your skills. We keep the classes warm!

The non-humid studio’s temperature is set at 80 degrees to 108 degrees depending upon the class being taught. Why heat the room? Upon starting a yoga practice learning the alignment of the postures is vitally important.

One of the yogic breaths commonly used in practice is very important for helping the internal heat factor. The breath throughout the practice is made to keep not only your mind more still, the breath helps warm your muscles and relax nerves to prevent injury. So, we heat the room, non-humid, so one can safely learn the postures and the breath will come with practice. Therefore we take attention to higher or lower heat depending on the practice of the students in each class.

The bonus for a heated room means you get more flexibility out of your muscles while reducing the risk of injuries. It also means you sweat a lot and feel great cycling the water out of your body. In the hot room, you’ll get deeper into poses than you thought you could while quickly building muscle strength and definition.

All of our classes are slightly different, depending on the instructor and the goal of the class. A Yin Yoga class has a much slower tempo than an Ashtanga class; some classes focus on “vinyasa” yoga, with flow between poses, while others focus on balance and breathing. Over time, our classes change to the interests of the studio community or what is needed to help ones practice grow , create healing, and give better understanding to the practice of yoga. Our Ashtanga Mysore classes are only heated at 80 degrees because of the internal heat factor . Also the Beginner’s yoga classes are only heated at 75 degrees.