The best way to find out if a class is suitable for you is to read the description of the classes as listed below. If you would like us to recommend a class for you, please call to schedule a 15 minutes complimentary evaluation with Umang.

Chair Yoga + Mat Yoga

If you are unable to bend your knees or unable to sit on the mat without support of wall behind your back  or have back pain, we recommend that you start with Gentle Chair Yoga.

Wellness Haven Gentle Yoga on Chair With Dumb-bells

Here is the link to a conversation on Gentle Yoga with our student Susan, as posted on our Facebook page: Wellness Haven Student talking about her experience with Gentle Yoga

Who is this for:

• Stretching, Strengthening, and Balancing Exercises on Chair, against the Wall, and on the Mat for Everyone. All ages are welcome. No experience required.

What to expect in this class:

• Starts with a Breathing exercise on a chair
• Followed by a full body workout on cushioned chair, and including dumbbells
• Followed by stretching, strengthening and balancing exercises against a wall in standing, sitting and lying down positions
• Followed by stretching, strengthening and balancing exercises in lying down positions (supine and prone) on the mat with soft bolsters, neck pillows and cushions to support the natural body arches
• Followed by blissful shavasana,  peaceful chanting, laughter yoga.
• Your stiff limbs will be released. You will wonder why you did not do this class before!

Mat Yoga for Beginners

If you do not have any injuries, you are able to bend your knees and use your wrists, if you are able to sit on the yoga mat without the support of a chair or wall, then we recommend that you start with Easy Yoga.

Who is this for:
Easy Stretching, Strengthening, and Balancing Exercises on the mat, and against the wall for everyone. All ages are welcome. No experience required.

What to expect in this class:
Starts with a Breathing exercise on the mat
Followed by easy stretching, strengthening and balancing exercises on the mat with soft bolsters, neck pillows and cushions to support the natural body arches, balancing poses at the wall.
Followed by blissful shavasana, peaceful chanting, laughter yoga.
Your stiff limbs will be released. You will wonder why you did not do this class before!

The difference between Gentle and Easy Yoga is the use of chair in Gentle Yoga and without chair in Easy Yoga and is for students transitioning from Gentle yoga to yoga asanas on the mat without back support of chair.

Bliss Yoga (held on demand)

If you like Restorative Yoga & Guided Meditation while lying down with support of cushions, then we recommend this class for you.

Who is this for:

• Restorative Yoga & Guided Meditation for Everyone. All ages are welcome. No experience required.

What to expect in this class:

• Starts with you lying on your back and deep breathing
• Followed by stretches on the back, sides and belly
• Followed by complete relaxation with props like cushion, block, sand bag and blanket, to make you comfortable as you are taken into guided meditation.
• Followed by self meditation/blissful shavasana, peaceful chanting
• Your tiredness, fatigue, headaches will simply disappear. Relaxation will seep into every pore of your being. Treat yourself to this class and you will be re-charged.

Exclusive Kids Yoga

Throughout the year, kids attend classes with their parents in any of our classes.

We offer Exclusive Kids Yoga for Independent Children 7 and Up
with pre-signup when scheduled.

In these classes, we build them up with a step by step Yoga Asana Class so that they become capable of attending the adult yoga class with their parents doing all the yoga asanas done by adults.

What do your kids learn?

• Breathing Exercises for allergies and asthma prevention
• Being quiet in Meditation
• Yoga asanas from A-Z, for kids learn it better than adults!!
• Talks around life philosophies and nutrition that is easy to understand

Fun Yoga (held on demand)

Who is this for:

• Everyone who loves to have fun with stretching, twisting, bending, twirling on the mat!

What to expect in this class:

• Starts with a Breathing exercise on the mat.
• Followed by asanas for warming up the body
• Followed by a lot of laughter and fun as we work in teams of 2 or more
  • Partner Yoga  – working with another student (s) in the class
  • Group Yoga – working together in a circle as a team
  • What You Like Yoga – Acro Yoga, Cartwheels, Headstands or whatever you like!

Yoga Workshop

• Note: We make every class like a workshop after warm-up for our students love learning the intricacies of the asanas. Some classes are devoted to being a workshop. 

Who is this for:

• Break down of yoga poses after warm-ups for Everyone. All ages are welcome. No experience required.

What to expect in this class:

• Each class is different based on the needs of the attending students
• Each yoga asana is explained in great detail to the new students, as the asanas are demonstrated
• Each student gets the time as their pose is corrected and questions are answered
• The class starts with a breathing exercise
• Followed by stretching, strengthening and balancing exercises on the mat and against the wall
• Followed by blissful shavasana,  peaceful chanting, laughter yoga

Wellness Haven Yoga Classes end with Laughter Yoga:

Benefits of Laughter:

Lower blood pressure; Increase vascular blood flow and oxygenation of the blood; Give a workout to the diaphragm and abdominal, respiratory, facial, leg, and back muscles; Reduce certain stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenalin; Increase the response of tumor; and disease-killing cells such as Gamma-interferon and T-cells; Defend against respiratory infections–even reducing the frequency of colds–by immunoglobulin in saliva; Increase memory and learning; in a study at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, humor during instruction led to increased test scores; Improve alertness, creativity, and memory.

Yoga Benefits:

Physical benefits:

 Mental benefits: