Levels & Styles

This class is designed for those who are beginning their yoga practice. The pace of the class moves in a way that allows students to get into their bodies and learn the poses in a safe and healthy manner. Beginner Power Yoga outlines the flow and poses that a student would find in any class offered at Raffa. This class allows students to become familiar with the breath work that is used in yoga class and also to become comfortable on their mats. The room is heated which offers a detox for the students. Students are encouraged to come to class and be comfortable with where they are in their practice.

Raffa Power Yoga is a style accessible to everyone. Work at a pace that feels comfortable for you. This fast paced class introduces sun salutes and linking the movement of your body and breathe. This is a vigorous style of yoga featuring Sun Salutes, core work, serious fun, standing series, twists, backbends and relaxation is incorporated into each class. Modifications are offered along the way to customize to any Fitness level.  Sweaty and inspirational, this class is heated to 90 degrees to encourage muscular detoxification, elongation, endurance and stretch support. Come challenge yourself in the style of Yoga that put Raffa studios on the Map!! everyone is welcome

Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga offers a different kind of yoga practice. It’s based on intuition rather than tradition. If you think you need to go to a health club to be fit and beautiful, think again. If you think that you need to escape to a cave in the Himalayas to find the enlightenment that yoga promises, think again. Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga offers more than the familiar poses and breathing techniques; it offers a way to face life with a renewed personal strength. Baptiste style classes are offered on Tuesday night at 5:15 and 7pm. The right class for you is the one that fits into your busy schedule. Come sweat and be part of a fun, welcoming and supportive community. The room is heated to approximately 90 degrees to promote circulation, flexibility, and purification.

A slower paced style of flowing yoga which focuses on deep breathing and energetic alignment. Twist, sun salutes, core work, standing series and inversions are added to this acessible style of yoga that finds a rhymth to ignite the deep fire in us all. The room is heated to encourage deep release and detoxification and inspiration to find yourself is always encourage. Move slower and smarter come join us for experimental fun in a slow flow class.

This fluid Vinyasa class combines elements of meditation, creative visualization, and pranayama with a challenging physical asana practice to create a total mind-body experience. Expect to expand your mental and physical boundaries as you cultivate your personal evolution.

A must attend for those new to the practice of yoga and movement of the body. This is the class where instructional foundations of the yoga postures and sequences are taught. An emphisis on establishing proper body alignment is applied through each class. The practice is designed so that each student can learn to participate at a healthy level.this class is designed to teach the tools for building a long term healthy yoga practice.If you have been curious about trying yoga than this is the class for you! Begin where you are if not now then when?

This therapeutic class is designed for those who wish to journey a bit deeper into the connective tissues of the body while balancing their practice with  therapeutic assisted stretching. Weather managing chronic connective tissue diseases such as Rheumatoid Arthritis, renewing strength and flexibility into a previously tight or injured areas of your body or just looking to improve the depth of your flexibility and balance, this core practice is for you.
Years of a dedicated asana practice will make anyone healthier, stronger, and more flexible, but at some point the muscles will have reached their limit of flexibility. New depths in postures, deeper ranges of motion, or an increased flow of energy may only be achievable by focusing on the deeper tissues of the body. This is the perfect compliment and balance to a  more active, yang practice.
If you have ever sat for a long time with legs crossed, you know the hips and lower back need to be strong and open. The sensations you felt were deep in the connective tissues and the joints. These are the deep yin tissues of the body, relative to the more superficial yang tissues of muscles and skin. This practice opens up these deep, dense, rarely touched areas. This class will integrate deep yin postures with longer holds as well as  assisted yang stretches to awaken every depth of your tissue.  No experience  is necessary, start where you are!  All levels are welcome so…
Come experience the journey!

One third of all americans are taking some form of sleeping medication at least one time monthly. The question is why? The answer … We have lost our ability to truely relax our bodies and minds. Restorative yoga will teach you how to move your body and mind away from activity and into an active state of relaxation. Practicing a variety of asanas (poses) props are used to position you in the greatest alignment for your nervous system to let go, relax, renew and disconnect. Each poses is held for 5-20 minutes this gives the nervous system time to unwind and the parasympathetic nervous system time to engage. The end result deep patterned rest cycle so your body has a chance to rest heal and refresh. This class is for everyone Espescially those who practice an intense style of yoga or are overworked and stressed out! have the courage to let go…See you on your yoga mat.

A dynamic flowing style class emphasizing core essentials of alignment that will challenge your flexibility, strength and stamina.  Be prepared to sweat! You will understand the proper alignment of Yoga asanas (postures) and use that knowledge and your breath to practice exciting and challenging sequences.   Prior yoga experience suggested.