Yoga

Ranae's classes at the Rec. Center are always fun and challenging

 Bikram yoga downtown on Railroad. It's "hot" yoga, meaning it feels like a sauna in the room and you sweat like crazy. I think it's like 90 bucks a month if you're a student.

Thank you fikej.  I wonder who you are.

I teach hatha-based power and beginning yoga at the rec.  You should get an x-pass in the fall; they're forty bucks, and you get unlimited access to all of the classes offered, including like 5 yoga classes per week.   That's an awesome deal since we're certified, and yoga is an expensive practice anywhere else you go.   

I was actually thinking of starting outdoor yoga sessions if I could get a large enough group together.  Charge like four bucks a person for an hour, hour and a half. Locus beach would be the perfect place to do it.  The water is shallow enough and the sand is firm enough.  And the view.  Amazing.

I would not necessarily "recommend" hot yoga.  It's extremely expensive once you're finished with the beginner's package, and I consider it a  pseudo-workout in a sense because you are sweating namely from the heat, and NOT solely because of the work your body is doing. 

If you are serious about taking yoga, I would go to Yoga Northwest, which is in Fairhaven.  You have to sign up for a ten week series (well, you don't HAVE to, but it is a better deal if you do), so you spend ten weeks learning the proper way to do each pose, and some of the philosophy and history behind it.  It is Iyengar yoga, which some people make fun of because they use a lot of props, like blocks and ropes, but the idea is that if you can't physically do the pose properly, you should use props to get you as close as you can, so you don't injure yourself.  I've been taking yoga for years, and have taken classes from many different yogic philosophies, and the Iyengar instructors are by far the best trained (YEARS, and a trip to India for full certification), and they really give you personal attention so you know that you're doing it right.  I've come out of the Yoga NW classes having worked muscles I didn't even know I had! 
In a nutshell, if you just want to "do yoga," they're all really the same (although bikram is like torture to me, and a little weird), but if you really want to learn yoga, then Yoga NW is the place. 
I am not employed by them, btw. 

Tried it, not my fav. Bikrim might be good, but not here... not for me anyway.