What type of Yoga Styles are there?

Acro - a physical practice that combines yoga and acrobatics, practiced with a partner. Essentially, it builds a practice of the understanding of trust.
Good for: building trust within the body, trust within the community, trusting your partner
Anusara - 'Yoga of the Heart' - centered around the 3 A's (Attitude, Alignment and Action), founded by John Friend
Good for: opening the heart, experience grace, expressing ourselves, physical and mental challenge
Anti gravity - combines traditional mat yoga with postures suspended in a soft fabric hammock. With the help of gravity and the hammocks playfully exploring floating, fluid movements and creating space in the body
Good for: stretching the body beyond your imagination, fun, experiencing the feeling of flying, conquering upside down postures
Ashtanga - fast paced, dynamic, physically demanding, set series of postures, each pose held for 5 breaths, founded by Sri Pattabhi Jois
Good for: losing weight, get a cardio workout, testing physical limits
Barkan - practised in a room heated to 40 Celsius, based on Bikram yoga, but not set poses, founded by Jimmy Barkan
Good for: detoxification
Bikram - practised in a room heated to 40 Celsius, series of set 26 postures, founded by Bikram Choudhury
Good for: detoxification
Forrest - intensely physical and internally focused practice, emphasizes how to carry the trans formative experience off the mat and into daily life. A path to cleansing the emotional and mental blocks from the body, founded by Ana Forrest
Good for: healing the body, overall balance
Hatha - gentle introduction to poses, Hatha simply refers to the practice of physical yoga, so in fact most forms of yoga in the west can be classified as Hatha Yoga. Meaning all the other styles mentioned here are actually Hatha Yoga, they just have been personalised and given a new name. The word 'hatha' means 'ha' sun and 'tha' moon, the yoga of balance, to align and calm the body, mind and spirit in preparation for meditation
Good for: beginners, focusing on breathing, relaxation and meditation, better understanding of ourselves
Hot - similar to Bikram, as in practised in heated room, but not following the 26 set postures
Iyengar - focus is on detailed alignment and breath control, using of props like belts, blocks, bolsters to help the body when it is not ready to get into the posture yet, founded by B.K.S. Iyengar
Good for: healing injuries and chronic ailments, focusing on proper alignment
Jivamukti - it is a physical, ethical and spiritual practice, combining vigorous hatha yoga with reading the scriptures, practising devotion, practising non-violence, music with chanting and meditation, founded by Sharon Gannon and David Life
Good for: pushing physical limits, spiritual introduction, for those who love to sing
Kripalu - the body is the center of your being and you must learn from it as well as accept your body as your best teacher, learn to do postures as they best suit your body, longer hold of postures and deep meditation sessions, founded by Amrit Desai
Kudalini - a physically and mentally challenging spiritual practice, different from a typical yoga class. Kriyas are performed, which are repetitive physical exercises coupled with intense breath work while chanting and meditating, founded by Yogi Bhajan
Good for: advanced practitioners, spiritual searching
Power Yoga - fitness based flowing practice, it originates from the Ashtanga practice mentioned above, except that it does not follow a set sequence
Prenatal - the clue is in the name, yoga practiced during pregnancy
Restorative - sequence typically only involves 5-6 poses, supported by props to allow you to completely relax and rest. Most restorative classes are based on Iyengar Yoga.
Good for: relaxing and soothing the nerves, rejuvenating
Sivananda - revolves around frequent relaxation, emphasizes full yogic breathing, founded by Swami Vishnu-Devananda
Vinyasa Flow - getting into the flow, dynamic practice which links continuous movement and breath together in a dance like way, pace is quick and poses are held for a short time
Good for: testing physical limits, for people who do not like routine and need change
Yin - the opposite of the faster moving practices, in this style poses are held for several minutes at a time. It is designed to target the deeper connective tissues and fascia, restoring length and elasticity
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