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Breathing Room: Yoga & Movement Studio

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Breathing Room: Yoga & Movement Studio

Come to our local yoga sanctuary for vinyasa flow, restorative, gentle, and pre/postnatal classes. We also offer a 200-hour teacher training program.

Breathing Room is a yoga and body movement sanctuary. We aspire to encourage individual growth, savor the sacred in every day, and celebrate community and joy through the practice of yoga and movement. Join us in a peaceful yet playful studio with experienced and inspired instructors in varied styles of yoga, pilates, and more. View our schedule: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/home.asp?studioid=23079

11/29/2025

💫Shop Small & Support Local Businesses💫

We are offering $10 off our membership auto renewals if you sign up with us during this time! 🙌🏻

👉🏻1 month of unlimited yoga $150 (auto renew)
👉🏻1 month unlimited mix pastoral & yoga $170 (auto renew)

✨Memberships include use of our sauna & 10% off workshops
✨Great if you practice 3 or more times a week

🙏Thank you so much for being a part of our community and supporting us during this holiday season!

👉🏻Sale ends Monday Dec 1st at midnight! 👈🏻

11/27/2025

🙏A Moment of Gratitude🙏

I always knew I wanted to have my own yoga studio. The minute I finished my teacher training, my goal was to teach as much as I could with the goal of having a space of my own someday. It was and is what brings me so much joy! It was just fate that I had the honor to take over the Breathing Room. The studio I fell in love with the minute I walked in the door.
It has been 5 years since making that jump and we have since expended into the Aerial Room as well. It has not always been easy and much like life and our practice it ebbs and flows, but it has always been a space that I find calmness & magic and I hope you find that too.
With an abundance of yoga studios to choose from I am grateful to our community & teachers who continue to show up and choose this space to practice and grow while you also support my dream. This space is for you. To meet new friends, reconnect with others, connect with yourself, and to let go.
Whether I have seen you in my classes, worked with you one on one or maybe we have yet to meet, I THANK YOU for following us, continuing to support me, The Breathing Room, and our wonderful teachers.
Please continue to join us, and carve out time for you! Our purpose is to make you feel welcomed and provide you with space to BREATHE!

✨Wishing you and your families a Happy Thanksgiving and holiday season✨

✨The Breathing Room is lucky to have YOU!✨

👉🏻Stay connected to learn how you can continue to support us by shopping small this season💖

08/29/2025

✨Teacher Highlight✨

Meet Jared

Jared has a Yin/Yang style of teaching. His sense of fun, challenge and humor shines in aerial classes while his meditative, contemplative side guides his yin yoga class. Jared first earned his Aikido Black Belt in 2015 after years of focused training. He felt the urge for more and yoga teacher training called. He completed his 200 Hour Yoga Certification with Boston School of Yoga/Terry Coburn and Ame Wren in 2016. Jared’s continuing education has included Yin Yoga (twice!) & Trauma Sensitive/All Bodies trainings with MUSE School of Yoga in 2017 and 2018. After teaching vinyasa and yin for a few years followed by a break during the pandemic, Jared re-ignited his yoga practice & skills with Aerial Yoga Teacher Training & Sound Practitioner training in 2022 & a second Yin Yoga Teacher training with Andrea Gleason/Southern Maine Yoga School in 2023.
Jared is an insurance professional during the business week, and on weekends he teaches Aerial Decompression, Yin Yoga for Men and offers sound baths with crystal bowls and percussion instruments, and helps train aerial yoga teachers here.

✨Take a class with Jared✨
👉🏻Saturday 10 am Aerial Decompression
👉🏻look for Yin Yoga for Men monthly beginning September

08/17/2025

💫Plan Your Week💫

Our class schedule includes Vinyasa Flow, Yin Yoga, Restorative Yoga, and Barre Classes. From our beginner to more challenging classes, we are focused on cultivating an intimate and accessible space. In addition we are now offering Aerial Yoga, and Support Yoga utilizing the support of our yoga rope wall, slings, and chairs. Our offerings are a mix of in-studio and online, and range from 45 minutes to 75 minutes. All bodies and levels are welcome!

💫Savor The Sacred In Everyday💫

08/11/2025

✨Teacher Highlight✨

Meet Caren 🤸‍♂️
Caren has been practicing vinyasa and power yoga regularly since 2016, and started aerial yoga weekly in 2021 while living in Alexandria, Virginia. Upon moving to Maine in 2022, an aerial yoga studio was more important to locate than the Trader Joes! She was so excited to find Leaping Waters?Breathing Room and immediately joined the community as a regular. A year later, she took the opportunity to complete aerial teaching training with Robin and grow her experience further.
Yoga has taught Caren so much about her own body, how it moves (and doesn’t move) and what it’s capable of. Aerial takes this to new levels, literally, and adds an extra layer of fun as well. Caren’s favorite things to do in aerial are climbs and core work - but on harder days, there’s nothing like being gently held in the fabric and letting go of that muscle tension. Caren fosters a safe environment of playfulness and small challenges that get you out of your day-to-day headspace to leave you feeling both strong and refreshed. She’s the perfect teacher if you want some advancing moves and she crafts fun, themed classes during the holiday seasons.

✨Take a class with Caren✨
👉🏻Tuesday 6 pm Advancing Aerial

07/30/2025

✨Teacher Highlight✨

Meet Robin🧘🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️

ROBIN IS A YOGA TEACHER & TRAINER BASED CAMBRIDGE MASS & SOUTH PORTLAND, MAINE
HER TEACHING STYLES INCLUDE AERIAL, YIN, FLOW, RESTORATIVE, CHAIR, ROPE WALL & YOGA NIDRA. ROBIN TRAINS & MENTORS YOGA TEACHERS WITH EMPHASIS ON THE RESTORATIVE ASPECTS OF YOGA, TRAUMA SENSITIVITY & EMOTIONAL WELL BEING. SHE BELIEVES AERIAL YOGA HAS A SPECIAL CONNECTION TO EMOTIONAL WELLNESS AS WELL AS PHYSICAL BENEFITS.
ORIGINALLY TRAINED BY JACQUI BONWELL IN 2012, ROBIN ALSO COMPLETED TRAININGS WITH MAINE YOGA SCHOOL, PRANAKRIYA SCHOOL OF YOGA & OTHERS & IS AN E-RYT 500 & YACEP WITH YOGA ALLIANCE. IN 2020, ROBIN STARTED LEAPING WATERS YOGA TO OFFER AERIAL AND OTHER CLASSES, AND IN THE SPRING OF 2025 SHE PASSED THE LEGACY ON TO BREATHING ROOM.
ROBIN BLENDS REIKI, SOUND, INTUITIVE READING & YOGA TO CREATE GROUP AND 1:1 SESSIONS & CAN BE REACHED AT LEAPINGWATERSYOGA@GMAIL.COM

✨Take a class with Robin✨
👉🏻Rotating Wednesday offerings at 5:30 pm
👉🏻Aerial Decompression
3rd Sunday of the month at 9:30
👉🏻Look out for special workshops and trainings

07/28/2025

Whether you live locally or stoping by to enjoy what Maine has to offer, we have a space for you!

We understand summer scheduling can be tricky and sometimes it it is a last minute thought to make time on your mat or for your hammock!

While we prefer you register ahead of time we do welcome walk ins.

⭐️Drop in’s are welcome!⭐️
👉🏻$20 for 1 yoga class
👉🏻$30 for 1 Aerial class
👉🏻 $39 for New Students 2 week unlimited, includes 1 Aerial Class.
(Perfect for those coming for vacation!)

💫 breathingroomme.com “book now”💫

07/25/2025

✨Teacher Highlight✨

Meet Alicia🧘🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️

Alicia found yoga through Aerial. She was instantly hooked on how amazing Aerial yoga made her feel mentally and physically. Her urge to empower others and provide the same love of movement lead her Aerial Yoga Teacher Training with Robin Ivy Payton at Leaping Waters Yoga.

Alicia completed her aerial yoga teacher training one year after her first aerial class in 2023; shortly after she started teaching Aerial Yoga once a week. Her love for yoga and wanting to learn more and provide more to her students brought her to Southern Maine School of Yoga where she completed her 200 YTT in April of 2024.

Alicia has played, coached, officiated and Managed Women’s football for 17 years. She is a 12 time All American and has coached athletes in the sport for over 10 years. Her experience as an athlete and coach has set the foundation for her to be an amazing yoga teacher. Football was Alicia’s Yang. Her Yin is now Yoga which has balanced her life beautifully. Her heart and passion to guide people through movement shines forth as she brings an energy that inspires people to move. Alicia also teaches Yin Yoga after training with Andrea Gleason and is on her Reiki practitioner journey with Kristine Keegan here at Breathing Room.

Alicia loves teaching both adults and young ones and is capable in both strengthening classes and restoratives such a yin and aerial earth.

✨Take a class with Alicia✨
👉🏻Kids Aerial
Mondays 11:30 am & Tuesdays 4pm
👉🏻Aerial Decompression
Thursday 5:30 pm, Friday 10:00 am
👉🏻Intro to Aerial
Thursday 4 pm

07/24/2025

💫Did You Know…💫

👉🏻We now offer weekly Aerial Yoga classes!

Aerial Yoga Decompression is sequenced from feet on the ground to feet in the air.
💫Move
💫Breathe
💫Swing

Hammocks are used for shoulder, chest & back openers, twists, core strengthening, inversions & rest

Offered 👇🏻
✨Thursdays 5:30 pm
✨Fridays 10:0 am
✨Saturday’s 10:00 am
✨Sundays 9:30 am

👉🏻Drop in $30
👉🏻 4 class pass $100
👉🏻6 class pass $145
👉🏻Monthly Unlimited $180 (includes yoga classes as well as use of Sauna)

06/17/2025

✨Teacher Highlight✨

Meet Liza🧘🏻‍♀️

Liza is a Kripalu Certified Yoga teacher with over 15 years’ experience practicing yoga and
meditation. Yoga has been a constant in her life for nearly 2 decades – what was once a
practice became essential. The exploration of movement deepened into a profound study of
self-discovery, philosophy and spirituality. Eventually, she immersed herself in a mindfulness
program through Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, where she began to learn all that yoga
encompasses – that yoga is a journey to your truest self. Liza brings lightness, creativity and
compassion to her teaching. You can expect meditation, visualization and a moderate intensity,
complimented with thoughtful background music. She teaches dynamic flows and provides an
environment accessible for both beginner and advanced yogi. Her focus is on embodiment and
providing a space for self discovery. She resides in Portland, Maine, with her two energetic and
passionate daughters

✨Take a class with Liza✨
👉🏻Wednesday 12 pm Community Flow donation
👉🏻Friday 8 am Gentle Yoga & Pranyama

06/09/2025

✨Teacher Highlight✨

Meet Taylor🧘🏻‍♀️

Taylor first came to yoga after sports injuries and found solace in the practice for her body but more importantly for her mind. After practicing for several years, she completed her RYT 200 training with Vishuddha Yoga Teacher Training in 2017. Learning more about the mind body connection informed her practice and teaching and deepened her understanding as a mental health professional. She utilizes yoga as a means of self-care integrating breath, movement, and meditation into her daily routine and teaching practices. Taylor wants to bring the experience of integrating mind and body to all of her students.

While in graduate school in California, Taylor taught yoga with detainees in jail and for mental health professionals and became certified in trauma-informed yoga. She continued to teach in studios in multiple states while completing her doctorate in psychology. After relocating to Maine in 2024, Taylor began working towards her 500 hour certification with a focus on Yoga Therapy. She hopes to draw on her experiences as a mental health professional to improve and expand the experience for students on the mat.

✨Take a class with Taylor✨
👉🏻Friday 9:30 am Flow For All

05/28/2025

✨It’s Happening✨

Our merge with Leaping Waters is happening! We are so excited to welcome them into our community and to be able to bring new offerings to our Breathing Room Community!

The studio doors will be open between both spaces creating one big beautiful space once again! 🥰

Our schedule is live with both yoga and aerial yoga offerings and we will continue to build as we move forward and hear what you want more of!

We also have a number of wonderful workshops coming up and ready for sign ups!

✨New Mixed Monthly Unlimited Pass✨
👉🏻1 month unlimited yoga & aerial auto renew
👉🏻10% off workshops and merch
👉🏻Sauna usage

✨Special intro price until June 7th✨

Address

South Portland, ME
04106

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 8pm
Tuesday	8am - 8pm
Wednesday	8am - 8pm
Thursday	8am - 8pm
Friday	8am - 8pm
Saturday	8am - 11am
Sunday	8am - 6pm

Website

http://www.breathingroomME.com/

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When you step through our bright yellow door, you’re walking into more than just a yoga studio. We’ve composed an everyday sanctuary, a peaceful-yet-playful space where our students can leave chatter outside and connect with our community. Our experienced instructors build heat in our room with vinyasa flows and cool things down in yin class. We offer adjustments and whisper alignment tips in our classes to personalize every practice. Through our 200-hour teacher training program, we mentor those who want to lead classes or deepen their relationships with yoga. No matter what’s drawn you to your mat, you’ll emerge from savasana with an open heart, a calm mind, and a strong body.