Rocket Yoga is one of the latest trends when it comes to power yoga styles. Much similar to the concept of sequence based formats such as Baptise, Sivananda, and Bikram, Rocket Yoga is like the black sheep of the yoga family. It maintains a structured progression of postures but it has deviant sequences. Similar to its father, Ashtanga Vinyasa from Mysore, India, Rocket has many layers:

• it’s for all levels of practitioners

• it’s comparable to the primary series in Ashtanga Vinyasa, focusing on deep hip openers, forward bends, core exercises, funky arm balances and headstands variations 

• it’s like the secondary series of Ashtanga Vinyasa where it offers deep backbends, spinal twists, and more variations of arm balances and inversions 

The WHY behind the variant sequences comes from a famous student, Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead, who has been quoted saying that this series of sequences, "gets you “there” faster." 

Larry Schultz, who created Rocket Yoga in San Francisco during the 1980s; mixed around postures, added a few, then made it a more playful, dynamic, and accessible practice. This more modernized concept of the asana practice emphasizes that postures are meant to be practiced by trying new variations with creative transitions. 

The variations are interwoven in between a warm-up (traditional Sun A and Sun B), standing postures, seated postures, and counter, calming poses. It's fair to say that the theory of Rocket Yoga is practiced in a structured sense but rigidity has been forgotten. 

By reducing rigidity, Rocket Yoga becomes a practice that is accessible to all practitioners. Students are welcome to use props, modify poses, and make their own interpretations of the asanas. The mentality of molding what already works into a personalized experience, is why Rocket Yoga represents Yoga Lab so clearly.

“By reducing rigidity, Rocket Yoga becomes a practice that is accessible to all practitioners.”

As experts in our own craft at Yoga Lab, we study and learn as much as we can. Through constant study and intimacy with the practice of yoga; we teach from our own experiences. We encourage coming to know the inner-self through study, repetition, and genuine effort. Yoga Lab is a center of diversity and transformation in this sense. Inviting students to come as they are, and consciously grow as peacefully as possible.   

“As experts in our own craft at Yoga Lab, we study and learn as much as we can. Through constant study and intimacy with the practice of yoga; we teach from our own experiences.”

We invite you to join any day of the week for a rewarding and inspiring yoga session. We will be offering Rocket Yoga 6 days a week. To honor the traditional lineage of Ashtanga Vinyasa, we will not offer Rocket on Sundays. However, expect dynamic heated classes on Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays 2 times a day and 1 time a day on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. 

We look forward to meeting you in person this November, 2022.