Due to the threat of tropical weather and predicted heavy rain, we will not have the following classes at the studio on Saturday, June 19:
8:15 AM Inferno Hot Pilates
10 AM Original Hot 90
2:30 PM Vinyasa Flow
We will make another announcement tomorrow morning about the status of the 4:30 PM Original Hot 60.
Thank you in advance for your patience and understanding. Please stay safe!
Regular schedule will resume Sunday, June 20 with Yoga Sculpt at 8:15 AM.
Looking for a class that combines the best of Bikram Yoga AND the best of vinyasa flow? We’ve got it!
Hot Vinyasa Fusion is back on Wednesday, June 16 at 5:30 p.m. Michelle will lead this 75-minute class that begins with several rounds of chaturangas, stretches and even some original hot yoga postures mixed in.
Then it transitions to some balancing poses and floor work that will be very familiar if you practice the 26 and 2 regularly.
It’s heated to about 100 degrees, so you will still work up a good sweat!
The original hot yoga sequence helps maintain and restore natural range of motion, but it is sometimes criticized for not having much of a focus on the upper body or hip openers. That’s where Hot Vinyasa Fusion comes in!
If you’ve tried it and loved it, your chance to practice it again is coming up soon. If you haven’t taken it yet, so is your chance to try it!
Sign up for the in-studio class here or the livestream option here!
The Iron Hour class you know and love has gotten even better and a lot more challenging!
We’ve recently rebranded this strength-based workout as Yoga Sculpt, and students are loving it.
If you haven’t been able to try it on Sundays or Thursdays, we’re offering a special pop-up class, Monday, June 7 at 7 p.m.
Yoga Sculpt still incorporates light hand weights (maybe even a little more than Iron Hour!), cardio and core work for maximum calorie-burning effect.
Instead of targeting the same muscles over and over, sequences change regularly so you’ll never hit that dreaded plateau.
It’s a total body workout designed to sculpt every major muscle group by combining yoga postures with weights and cardio. It’s a great balance of strength, conditioning and vinyasa flow!
We feel that Yoga Sculpt more appropriately describes this class and the effects it’s designed to have on your body. And we can’t wait for you to experience the difference.
Don’t miss it!
Research has revealed that the essential oil of lavender may be used for treating anxiety, insomnia, depression and restlessness.
That’s why we’re so excited to have brought back our cool lavender towels for you to enjoy during savasana!
If, for whatever reason, you don’t want to receive a lavender towel, that is absolutely no problem. Just let the teacher know.
When you are finished with class, please place your used lavender towel in the basket just outside the hot room door with any rented Sterling practice towels.
We’ll take care of the rest. Enjoy!
One of everyone’s favorite challenges is BACK this summer. Get ready for the 2021 Sterling Summer Bingo Challenge!
You have all of June this summer to fill up your card. Beginning Monday, June 1 through Wednesday, June 30, we’re challenging you to fill up your bingo card to win some fun prizes along the way.
All you have to do is simply maintain your practice and complete activities along the way. You can earn one bingo stamp per class.
If you’ve never played Sterling bingo, you’ll want to! Of course, if you have, you’ll want to play again!
Cards will be available this week at the front desk. Sign up and have (more) fun doing yoga this summer!
Memorial Day is this month, and what a special time to remember the ultimate sacrifices our service men and women–and their families–have made.
In memory of them, we are asking you to join our May karma cause and “Be the Light” in our community for veterans.
We want to highlight and support Veterans Recovery Resources, which provides a unique by-veteran, for-veteran approach in delivering counseling, physical therapy, medical care and more. They are also one of our valued community partners!
Please help us support their much-needed role in being the light to one of the largest concentrations of veterans in the country.
If you’re not currently an active member, you can “Be the Light” by joining us for ANY class now through Memorial Day. Simply click this link and your donation gives you access to a class. Then schedule your class between now and Monday, May 31, it’s that simple! All proceeds go to this most important community service.
Sterling members are welcome to make donations to this worthy cause as well. If you can’t make it to a class, but want to make a donation, we will be accepting them through the end of the month.
When Sterling Hot Yoga & Wellness (then Bikram Hot Yoga Mobile) opened in October 2010, Sheri Granberry took her first class at the studio during the first week.
She wasn’t new to yoga. Iyengar, Anusara, Jivamukti, Baptiste, Ashtanga and even Bikram were among the many styles she’d practiced before she landed at Sterling.
But it was the original hot yoga sequence of 26 postures and two breathing exercises that has consistently motivated her to practice since then, and just last week, Sheri reached an amazing milestone of 2,000 classes!
For Sheri, her practice has become an essential part of her day. “It’s part of my world, just like bathing or brushing my teeth. It’s a body/mind reset,” she said. “For me as I age, it’s more moving meditation and less of attaining a goal in a particular posture.”
She equates that consistent practice with a “type of internal cleansing, a feeling of bodily rejuvenation and a restoration of a fresh day/approach to things,” she said.
Sheri also noted the source of her motivation to practice, her yoga buddy, Flora Thompson. (Read more about their friendship that blossomed at Sterling.)
“A very long time” ago, Sheri was first motivated to practice yoga as “a retaliation to all the Jazzercise that people were doing back then,” she said of the fitness craze that flourished in the ‘80s.
She had even practiced the original hot yoga sequence on her own outside of the studio setting, and she noted the difference it makes.
“It’s so much better to practice in a heated room! Your body is like steel,” she said. “It bends when heated, but rigid when cold.”
Many times, it’s easy for students to work too hard in postures, denying themselves the opportunity to find balance, or as Sheri put it, peace.
“The more you force a posture, the less likely you will ever make peace with that posture,” she said of the most surprising things her practice has taught her. “Also my body is never the same day to day.”
Sheri has been a fixture on the front row as long as most of us at the studio can remember. Her focus, dedication and warmth is what we all love about her!
“It’s a lifetime thing that benefits both body and mind,” she said. “It’s not about being able to do all the postures; it’s about showing up.”
That was her advice for first-time students, to simply show up. But in the 10-plus years she’s been at Sterling, we think she’s got some pretty great advice for everyone!
“Listen to the dialogue. Try not to fidget and add extra movements. Keep it fluid and soft. Try to incorporate some beauty in your practice with stillness and grace. Try not to compare yourself with others. You be you!”
We’d love for you to show up at Sterling and begin your yoga journey with us! Come join Sheri and our amazing community for one low introductory price if you’re a first-timer.
How is your year going so far? If you need motivation to stick with your healthy habits or to develop some, we’re here to help!
In March, we’re encouraging you to set healthy habits with our 2021 Healthy Habits Challenge! Since it takes about three weeks to form a habit, the challenge is to take 21 classes in 21 days and get your year off to a healthy start!
Everyone who completes the challenge will be entered to win a drawing for these prizes: one one-hour initial consultation with Bridget Reiter, Registered Dietitian with The Delicious Dietitian; one Wellness/Immunity Boosting Juicing Bundle from Heidi Pritchett; and one set of hand-cut, small-batch, plant-based soaps formulated to give you an all-natural healthy glow from MelAsana Soap by Melanie Kaufman.
The Healthy Habits Challenge begins Monday, March 1, 2021 and ends Sunday, March 21, 2021.
It will be the first of four 21-day challenges we’ll offer this year. For every one you complete, you’ll get an entry into a special prize drawing, and if you complete all four challenges, you’ll be entered into a separate drawing when we celebrate your accomplishments at the end of the year.
Sign-up cards for the Healthy Habits Challenge will be available this week!
The Iron Hour class you know and love has gotten even better and a lot more challenging!
We’ve recently rebranded this strength-based workout as Yoga Sculpt, and students are loving it.
Yoga Sculpt still incorporates light hand weights (maybe even a little more than Iron Hour!), cardio and core work for maximum calorie-burning effect.
Instead of targeting the same muscles over and over, sequences change regularly so you’ll never hit that dreaded plateau.
It’s a total body workout designed to sculpt every major muscle group by combining yoga postures with weights and cardio. It’s a great balance of strength, conditioning and vinyasa flow!
We feel that Yoga Sculpt more appropriately describes this class and the effects it’s designed to have on your body. And we can’t wait for you to experience the difference.
Yoga Sculpt is offered on Sundays and Thursdays at 8:15 a.m. Don’t miss it!
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