Maine Hatha Yoga
Fitness
49 Dartmouth St,
Portland,
ME
04101
(207) 874-9642
Mon: 9:00AM - 7:30PM
Tue: 5:30AM - 6:30PM
Wed: 9:00AM - 7:30PM
Thu: 5:30AM - 5:00PM
Fri: 8:00AM - 6:30PM
Sat: 8:30AM - 4:00PM
Sun: 7:30AM - 4:00PM
About
Bikram Yoga is a challenging series of 26 asanas, or postures, that are designed to systematically stretch, strengthen and restore health to every part of the body. Scientifically developed by Bikram Choudhury, founder of the worldwide Yoga College of India, this 90 minute program is practiced in a heated room, which warms the body allowing for deeper and safer movement. This heat also helps prevent injuries and rids your body of toxins while relieving stress and tension throughout your system. Please see our FAQs page for additional benefits of practicing yoga in the heat. Bikram Yoga has been described by its creator as a "moving meditation". Physically it cultivates strength, flexibility and balance. Mentally it trains the mind in five ways: to build faith in your abilities, gain self control, increase personal determination, improve mental concentration and build patience. This yoga practice when done with regularity is life-changing. You will find yourself craving better food, sleeping more soundly, and feeling a general sense of health and wellness perhaps not otherwise experienced.
Services
- Acro Yoga
- Aerial Yoga
- Align & Flow Yoga
- AntiGravity Yoga
- Anusara Yoga
- Ashtanga Yoga
- Ayurvedic Consultation
- Babysitting
- Bikram Yoga
- Cardio
- Cardiolates
- Cross Training
- Deep Stretch Yoga
- Detox Body Wraps
- Hatha Yoga
- Health & Diet Assessment
- Iyengar Yoga
- Kripalu
- Kundalini Yoga
- Kundalini Yoga
- Kung Fu
- Muay Thai
- Physical Therapy
- Pole Zoga
- Power Yoga
- Private Yoga Therapy
- Restorative Yoga
- Silver Yoga
- Sivananda Yoga
- Slow Flow Yoga
- Vibration Therapy & Training
- Vinyasa Yoga
- Yoga
- Yoga Studies
- Yoga Teacher Training
- Yoga for Back Pain
- YogaWall
- Yogalates
Languages
- English
Payments
- Cash
- Check
- Debit
- Discover
- Google Checkout
- Mastercard
- Other
- Traveler's Check
- Visa
Staff
Michael Seymour
4 stars Anonymous Featured review
Positive setting. Vis a vis hatha yoga- the teachers really need to learn how to teach people with different bodies. They tend to know how to accommodate boyish bodies (ie Yoga Journal bodies) but not rounder fleshier ones. They tell us to learn how to make our bodies fit the pose, but they don't know how to teach us to do that. Example- fixed firm pose- it's a sin seeing how people who can't achieve the full pose are hovering on their knees with no support. Please take some Iyengar courses to learn how to help all of your clients. I dissuade people who don't have a solid foundation in yoga to start yoga at this studio. This is a great studio for weight loss, building stamina, and looking at yourself in the mirror, but not for learning the basics about alignment and how to "use yoga."
Maine Hatha Yoga replied:
Ironically, we had a teachers meeting yesterday to discuss modifications for larger bodies, and will be putting together a workshop for this in the near future. Please understand that most of our teachers are "Bikram" yoga or Baron Baptiste "PowerYoga" trained, and have been teaching these styles of Yoga for up to 15 years. And true, these styles do not give much leeway for different body types and modifications. Which is why we are moving away from this type of teaching, but it is a slow process, and we are encouraging training with other teachers such as Tony Sanchez. We are not a " Bikram" or "PowerYoga" or "Iyengar" studio, and I believe not one style is better than the other, but we are striving to meld together the best of what we have learned through our training's. Over the past few years we have been focusing more on teaching the priority of alignment and breath, and the mirror is actually there to promote focus and checking alignment as the teaching is teaching it. It is not there for any ego stroking, people will use it as they will though, we cant force anything. It seems to me you may have taken class with a teacher who is not comfortable yet with suggesting proper modification. We are striving to bring all our teachers to be on the same page, but they are all at different experience levels. Please be patient with them, some have only been teaching for a few weeks or a few years or struggling to separate themselves from the Bikram dogma. But the more seasoned teachers would suggest to bring an extra towel to place behind or under the knees and to lean into the fists to take the pressure off the knees in fixed firm pose. Hopefully after the meeting we will all be comfortable helping students to do that! Thank you~
5 stars Kelly F Customer since 2017
This is a wonderful studio. The instructor was helpful and informative.I have been to other studios this one was differe ... Read More
5 stars Anonymous Verified customer
I wish there were more variety of classes. I did fusion once but i cant do it again because of the schedule.
5 stars Stan T Customer since 2017
Ashley was helpful and encouraging. I managed forty minutes, and so that's a baseline for incremental improvement. See y ... Read More
5 stars Arthur B Customer since 2009
Hot yoga at Maine Hatha Yoga has been restorative for my knees. I have been able to regain mobility and postpone knee r ... Read More
5 stars Lee S Customer since 2007
Maine hatha was the first yoga studio I ever visited, and has been my home base for the past ten years. The studio and t ... Read More
5 stars Anonymous Verified customer
Our teacher on Saturday morning for the 7:30 to 8:30 class was awesome!!! She was welcoming, helpful and real!!!
5 stars Tarek H Customer since 2011
Great as usual...
5 stars Irina V Customer since 2007
I am not a regular but every time after my classes I feel wonderful and rejuvenated. Thank you all of you for hard work ... Read More
5 stars Susan M Customer since 2005
Always superior and supportive teachers, great community, nice & hot.
5 stars Sandy M Customer since 2003
love it .
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