We provide blocks, straps and blankets for your use at no extra charge. Please bring your own mat – or rent one at any of our locations for $1. You amy also want to bring a towel if you think you may need one (recommended for our HOT Yoga classes).

Just wear some comfortable loose fitting clothing that you can move easily in. The same clothes you might wear for workout at a gym will work perfectly – minus the shoes and socks.

Tap water (only) is available in all locations.

All locations have restroom facilities and a place to change your clothing.  No location has showers.

We have two locations: Bangor and Brewer. Please refer to our “About” section above for directions and a map to each location.

Yoga as exercise is no better (or worse) than any other form of physical activity. The best exercise is the one you will do, whether that may be running, swimming – or, yoga.

However, in most of our yoga classes, you will also practice, to varying degrees, pranyama (breath work) and mindfulness. These additional practices augment the asana (stretching/exercise) thereby enhancing your practice to incorporate both body and mind.

Honestly, for most people, no. Genetics along with childhood activity (or non-activity) will have predetermined most of your body’s range-of-motion capability by the time you have exited adolescence.

Because, with complete certainty, if you don’t stretch, you will become less flexible.  Yoga can teach you to systematically explore what your body’s real potential is (not some idealistic, skinny Yoga Journal cover model), fully explore that and then attempt to maintain that for the rest of your life.

There is no single best studio – ours included. There is, however, the best teacher for you. The guru/student connection is the single most significant factor in learning about the benefits of yoga. When you find the right teacher for yourself, you have also found the best studio. (Om Land Yoga offers over twenty different teachers – each with their own unique “voice”.)

All systems of yoga posture/asana practice (Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Kripalu, Anusara, Iyengar, Kundalini, Jivamukti, etc.) have benefits. None of them are perfect. Find the right teacher for yourself and, at least initially, you will have also found the right kind of yoga.

Allow yourself to explore. If the first teacher you try doesn’t seem like a good fit for you – try someone else.

Meditation is not about clearing your mind of all thoughts or ignoring sensation. Meditation is a practice that develops a heightened awareness (and perhaps an appreciation and understanding) of your self in relation to both thoughts and external stimuli. The mind is designed to think. However, with mindfulness meditation, you practice to acknowledge your thoughts, let them pass, and then bring your attention back to a focal point of some kind such as your breathing – because it is always there – ever present. So, meditation actually involves your mindful awareness, not only of your own thoughts and breath, but also the sounds, smells and other physical sensations in your environment. Interested in learning more about mindfulness meditation? A great place to start is Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book Wherever You Go, There You Are, and/or one of his audio meditation guides. (Although reading a book on meditation can be a great source of information, reinforcement, and encouragement – there is no substitute for actually practicing.)