ABOUT US
Body By Yoga was designed to help you build a stronger body and improve your mental toughness by giving you the tools to live a longer, healthier, and well-balanced life.
Body By Yoga began as a way to bring the many benefits of yoga to everyone—regardless of fitness level. Body By Yoga is for true beginners, avid yogis, hardcore body builders, and runners alike. No matter where you are in your fitness journey, you can work toward a stronger and better version of yourself. Our classes and products for YOU. Come practice with us and see how you much you can grow.
What is yoga for functional fitness?
Body By Yoga focuses on the physical benefits of yoga to help you move better, feel better, and perform better. Our anatomy-based, technique-driven classes are created for functional strength, mobility, weight loss, rest day recovery, injury rehabilitation, pain relief, and more!
About Our Teaching Style
Fitness focus.
Body By Yoga focuses on the physical benefits of yoga to help you move better, feel better, and perform better. Our anatomy-based, technique-driven classes are created for functional strength, mobility, weight loss, rest day recovery, injury rehabilitation, pain relief, and more!
Created for the inflexible.
Every class provides modifications for anyone who can’t touch their toes. Great for those who are brand new to fitness as well as anyone who works out and has tight muscles.
Straight to the point instruction.
Mindfulness matters. It can help improve your focus, your game, and your inner calm. We just don’t add that to any of our classes. We focus on the physical benefits of yoga with specific tips like which muscles to engage and where you should (and shouldn’t) be feeling each exercise.
Part workout, part physical therapy session, and part educational experience.
Our classes are a workout first and foremost, no matter the level, but you’ll also learn the benefits of every pose while you practice. You’ll never wonder if you’re doing a pose correctly, or why you’re doing it in the first place.
Teaching vs Preaching.
Sometimes an early morning stretch is just that: a great way to to open up your hips, alleviate back pain, and improve your mobility for the day. We do not add themes like gratitude, balance, or unity to our classes. We like those ideas. We support those ideas. We just don’t think they need to be a part of your workout.
Targeted routines for every goal.
Instead of a one size fits all approach to yoga, we have different classes for specific goals. Need yoga for back pain? Check. Looking for a short morning workout? Check. Yoga for running? For weight loss? For recovering in between workouts? Yep, we have those too. Select the yoga class that matches your goals and level of fitness.
Our Unique Style Of Yoga
Slow Burn Power Yoga
We’ve created a unique style of yoga called Slow Burn Power Yoga which combines Hatha, Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Power Yoga with bodyweight exercises and physical therapy.
Typical yoga classes use fast moving flows to add a “cardio” element to yoga. With less time for cues in between poses, most yoga classes tend to focus almost exclusively on the breath, which is great for stress relief and improving breathing, but has little application to proper muscle engagement. Instead, we recognize that most of our students can get better cardio from walking, running, and sports.
That’s why our classes move a little slower and emphasize proper technique above all else in order to give you the time to open up your muscles, find the right modifications and adjustments, and work deeper into challenging poses.
The result is a low impact bodyweight training program that is going to push you. If you weren’t sure you could sweat from yoga then you better think again!
Why Cork?
Why cork? It’s slip-resistant, provides the perfect blend of comfort & support, and absorbs sweat to help you get the best possible workout you can while on the mat. Cork is also naturally anti-microbial and comes from a sustainable, renewable source. We should mention that it looks amazing too!
Our Team
Meet Dean.
Dean Pohlman is an E-RYT 200 certified yoga instructor who created this unique style of yoga in order to better address the unique needs for those seeking the physical benefits of yoga.
Dean is widely considered to be an authority on yoga for beginners and is a DK Publishers author with books on Yoga For Athletes and Yoga For Men. Dean has been featured in Muscle & Fitness Magazine, Men’s Health, The Chicago Sun, New York Magazine, and many more major news media outlets.
Meet Paul.
Paul, a Body By Yoga co-founder, is living proof that yoga can help you go from couch potato to workout addict. Paul got started with Body By Yoga after trying out numerous yoga studios, but never feeling comfortable with group classes. Searching for a way to lose weight and build strength around a chronic back injury, Paul helped launch Body By Yoga to bring the many benefits of yoga to everyone—regardless of fitness level! Nowadays, there’s no fitness activity that Paul won’t try and he continues to push his body in new ways everyday.
Our Mission
Body By Yoga was born out of a mission to help bring fitness and movement to everyone in a welcoming, all-inclusive way. Movement has touched our lives in so many positive ways. Now we want to share those benefits!
Join over 50,000 of our students and see the Body By Yoga difference yourself. For Free.
Most students see results after just their first class. Start practicing with us today for free for 14 days and see how yoga can help you achieve your fitness goals.
OUR PROMISE.
Part workout, part physical therapy session, and part educational experience, we’ll teach you the type of yoga that will help improve your performance, make you stronger, and help prevent injury. Here’s what else you can expect.