If Iyengar style yoga is your thing, this studio can't be beat. While several styles of yoga are offered at Yoga Centers, expect them all to be based on the basic Iyengar yoga tenet that focuses on alignment, balance, strength, endurance and relaxation. A wall-rope system helps ensure students correctly position themselves in a pose and that they hold that pose for a long time.
Classes vary depending on the week of the month, with the first week being the most aerobic.
Week two focuses on inverted poses, week three concentrates on back bends and week four is primarily for relaxation. At the age of 7, Yoga Centers owner Aadil Palkhivala began studying yoga with B.K.S. Iyengar, one of the most influential yoga instructors in the world. At 15 he was teaching yoga in India, and then continued teaching in 1981 when he came to the United States. Yoga Centers opened in 1992. Jeff Zeunert One of Seattle's best Nominated for best yoga studio because of the owner's strong background in the Iyengar yoga style.