portland yoga collective

portland yoga collective Voted Portland’s best yoga studio! Welcome to Portland’s downtown yoga studio, located just st

Has your teacher ever said “Go ahead with an inversion if it’s in your practice!” and a few people actually do the inver...
02/03/2026

Has your teacher ever said “Go ahead with an inversion if it’s in your practice!” and a few people actually do the inversion? What if it’s not in your practice, and you want a safe place to try?
Join Danielle this April for an inversions workshop! Yoga instructors - we’ve added a teachers module in addition to the inversions workshop so you can learn how to safely offer inversions in your classes!
Link in bio to learn more and sign up!
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Starting tonight, every Monday night 6:45pm *Virtual* Yin class is free. We believe resisting systems of oppression is a...
02/02/2026

Starting tonight, every Monday night 6:45pm *Virtual* Yin class is free.
We believe resisting systems of oppression is an integral piece of liberation work — one of the main pillars of the practice of Yoga.
We also believe that a practice of rest supports resiliency and longevity in resistance efforts.
We believe rest is for all.
As such, we humbly offer this free weekly virtual class for folks who are on the front lines of resistance work, organizing, and other forms of community care. Additionally, this option is for anyone who needs to practice from home, whether that is for safety, health, accessibility or another reason. This is an honor-system, no-questions-asked way for anyone to be guided and held in a rest practice at PYC.
This class joins our other free, donation and sliding scale offerings at the studio that we are honored to offer.
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On Friday, January 30, all classes will be free so folks can join us for rest, grounding and connection while standing i...
01/29/2026

On Friday, January 30, all classes will be free so folks can join us for rest, grounding and connection while standing in solidarity with those striking to protest the funding of ICE. It is our hope that the $ saved may be reallocated to a local organization offering boots on the ground help – the , , and are a few you may consider. 

We also wanted to take this moment to share endless thanks to the many ways this community has already shown up. Over the past ~week, we’ve matched donations to 3 organizations doing incredible work – Maine Solidarity Fund, Project Relief, Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project – raising $6k in total with student donations and studio match.

In an effort to ensure this work sustainably continues beyond Friday’s free classes, we wanted to share our ongoing low-no cost weekly classes:

- Weekly Free Beginner’s Vinyasa every Friday at 5:30pm
- Weekly Donation Vinyasa every Saturday at 12pm starting in February
- Weekly Free Virtual Yin every Monday at 6:45pm starting in February 

Our yoga practice is one of sustainability, so ensuring these efforts continue well past this moment matters. 

Thank you for joining us in our continued efforts to lean into the teachings of yoga, hold space for our community members, stand in solidarity with our local businesses and act with integrity. It’s a privilege to do the work of endeavoring to strike this balance.

We’re excited and honored to welcome (she/her) this March for two powerful and informative workshops. Anjali Rao’s book...
01/26/2026

We’re excited and honored to welcome (she/her) this March for two powerful and informative workshops. Anjali Rao’s book, Yoga as Embodied Resistance, illuminates the essential—but often unseen—relationships between caste and gender in yoga, bridging scholarship, history and cultural analysis. We’ll discuss how yoga can be a vital path to resistance, agency and collective liberation. Come with questions, curiosities and an open mind to explore and challenge our notions around our practice.
Learn more and register at the link in our bio!

We add another incredible human to the PYC team! Please join me in welcoming Cat (she/her) to the squad! Cat graduated f...
12/29/2025

We add another incredible human to the PYC team! Please join me in welcoming Cat (she/her) to the squad! Cat graduated from PYC’s YTT in 2024 and completed a fitness training and mentorship with us in 2025; now she’s stepping into teaching fitness! Expect to get your sweat on with Cat in the coming weeks – in the meantime, let’s learn a bit more about Cat!
🧘🏻‍♀️ I’ve been taking yoga classes since childhood, but my practice deepened in my late teens. As I moved around the country for school and work, finding a yoga or fitness studio became my way of finding home. Shifting my mindset from seeing movement as punishment to celebrating it as a gift has made it an essential part of my daily life.
🏙️ I’m originally from NYC and moved to Portland with my husband three years ago. We love it here and spend most of our free time exploring the midcoast.
🧐 I work as a Strategist, and I’m super curious by nature. I’m always eager to learn about different things, places and people. I recently went on a deep dive of why tinned fish packaging is so beautiful and now I collect them! 
♐️♌️♉️ I’m a Sag Sun, Leo Rising, and Ta**us Moon - yeehaw!!!!
🚲 Some of my favorite things are reading, dancing, biking around town, laughing with my girlfriends and playing backgammon. I try not to take life too seriously and always aim to prioritize fun and connection. 

The PYC team grows! Y’all, please give Emily (she/her) a warm welcome! Emily is a PYC YTT graduate, and is now teaching ...
12/29/2025

The PYC team grows! Y’all, please give Emily (she/her) a warm welcome! Emily is a PYC YTT graduate, and is now teaching fitness! Mark your calendars – you can catch Emily in a 🆕 PYC Pilates class every Friday at 4pm starting next week! Emily – tell us about yourself!
🩰 Hi yall, I’m Emily! I was first introduced to pilates as a form of cross training for ballet, which I trained in for 15 years. I continued to crave creative yet functional movement and returned to the modality as a student...and now a teacher! I completed my 200-hour YTT at PYC in the fall of 2024 and a fitness mentorship training in the fall of 2025. 
🧶 I have far too many hobbies… but please introduce me to a new one! I love any activity that will get me outside (running, skiing, gardening, hiking, biking) and anything creative (pottery, printmaking, knitting, painting). I’m always in search of a good adventure and a new craft ;)
🥾 In addition to teaching at PYC, I work for a land trust in midcoast Maine. Every day looks different…from digging clams to building trails to trudging through marshes! I feel so lucky to call our beautiful state home. 
💪🏽 I joined PYC shortly after moving back to Maine and it feels very full circle to now join its staff. The studio has been instrumental in making Portland feel like home and I couldn’t be more excited for this journey with you all!

Our schedule grows in the new year, starting with Slow Vinyasa! This class is a flow-based asana practice that moves a b...
12/23/2025

Our schedule grows in the new year, starting with Slow Vinyasa! This class is a flow-based asana practice that moves a bit slower. Like a regular Vinyasa practice, you’ll explore a series of postures linked to breath. In Slow Vinyasa, you’ll use props intelligently to ease transitions between postures and deepen stretches. You’ll also build heat with intentionally longer holds. Expect class to be a slow burn, with spaciousness to explore pranayama and a generous cool-down and rest.
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A deep thank you to everyone who joined us for Yoga in Action and Community Discourse gatherings this year ❤️This progra...
12/16/2025

A deep thank you to everyone who joined us for Yoga in Action and Community Discourse gatherings this year ❤️
This program continues to be very close to my heart. It offers a space for ongoing study, reflection and dialogue, inviting us to engage with yoga as a living practice that extends far beyond movement. Together, we explore philosophy not as something abstract, but as something that shapes how we relate to ourselves, one another and the world around us.
In 2025, we came together for four free community offerings led by members of the PYC teaching team and invited facilitators.
We began by exploring raga and dvesha, examining how attachment and aversion quietly shape our habits, relationships and reactions, and how awareness can open the door to more intentional response.
We then gathered in devotion and inquiry with Kali, sharing story, song and reflection on endings, transformation and the necessary role of destruction in growth.
In My Voice is Necessary, we explored the power of sound and silence, reflecting on expression, creation and the many ways our voices—spoken and unspoken—participate in shaping reality.
We closed the year with Practice & Poise, working with the interplay of abhyasa and vairagya as tools for meeting habitual reactions with steadiness, care and choice.
Thank you to everyone who showed up with curiosity, honesty and a willingness to be in conversation. These gatherings are co-created, and they continue to remind me of the power of shared inquiry and community learning.
With love,
Tizzy (PYC Education Manager)

This past weekend we graduated 17 wonderful yoga teachers from our third annual PYC Yoga Teacher Training cohort, follow...
12/15/2025

This past weekend we graduated 17 wonderful yoga teachers from our third annual PYC Yoga Teacher Training cohort, following on the heels of our 5 Yoga Student Training graduates a few weeks back! What a spectacular crew of 22 lifelong learners! From singing bowl charades, to a tie dye party, to candle gazing meditation and yoga dancing...we spent the past few months together learning, playing, experimenting and cultivating curiosity. These are the first steps on a long journey, friends! We’re so proud of you, and we can’t want to continue watching you grow. 
We love you, keep going!
All of our love, Christina, Tizzy & the PYC Teaching Staff

Did you know that you can use PYC gift cards for not just yoga, but also private Thai Yoga Bodywork sessions?Thai bodywo...
12/09/2025

Did you know that you can use PYC gift cards for not just yoga, but also private Thai Yoga Bodywork sessions?
Thai bodywork provides a full-body meditative massage where the focus is on deep relaxation, full stretch and the practice of cultivating mettā, or loving kindness. While fully-clothed, the receiver is supported with stretching, rocking pressure, traction and lymphatic drainage. Expect to leave feeling rested, relaxed, and like you just woke up from the best savasana you’ve ever had. 
Purchase gift cards online or in-studio!
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Our beloved Yin Yoga Student & Teacher Training is back this March!Throughout this course led by Christina, you will pra...
12/04/2025

Our beloved Yin Yoga Student & Teacher Training is back this March!
Throughout this course led by Christina, you will practice Yin Yoga using a variety of props, learn about the history and appropriation of Yin Yoga, engage in discussions around classic Taoist texts, feel how Yin Yoga affects the Nervous System, practice pranayama and meditation, examine 5-Element Theory and study basic anatomy as it relates to Yin Yoga.
You know Christina, so you know her passion and joy in the practice of slowing down. Join us on the journey of turning inward - more info in linktree!

Join Casey this February for a 10-hour training focused on the foundations of hands-on assists to offer support in Vinya...
11/20/2025

Join Casey this February for a 10-hour training focused on the foundations of hands-on assists to offer support in Vinyasa, Yin and Restorative classes.
Supportive touch is a complement to verbal teaching to enhance a student’s felt sense and understanding a pose.
Expect to learn assists for core yoga poses with the skills and techniques to physically and energetically assist postures safely and confidently.
You will establish your own personal code of ethics for consensual assisting in your yoga classes, developing skillsets that are immediately applicable upon the completion of this training.

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98 Cross Street N, Suite C
Portland, ME
04101

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Monday 9:30am - 6:30pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 6:45pm
Wednesday 7am - 6:30pm
Thursday 9:30am - 7:45pm
Friday 7am - 8am
Saturday 9am - 10am
Sunday 9:30am - 6:30pm

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