PORTLAND GROUP EX CLASSES 

Balance & Body: Body and Balance are a dual-purpose workout that will build strength in all the major muscle groups as well as exercises to increase your balance.  In this class you will be using your own bodyweight, Bosu balls, and light weights.   A perfect class to increase body composition and body awareness.

Beginner/Intermediate Step: A high-energy, fast-paced class designed for beginner and intermediate stepper's seeking a fun, challenging cardio workout with freestyle dance choreography. 

Bootcamp: Boot camp mixes traditional calisthenics and body weight exercises with intervals, strength, and functional training. This is a full body workout, using low and high intensity to improve endurance, burn body fat and increase strength. 

Build & Burn: Have a blast while tackling an energizing full-body strength training class. This class combines full-body strength training with intermittent cardio blasts for an effective workout that builds strength, improves endurance and boosts metabolism. Set to a tabata-styled timing method, you'll work either stationary or in circuits incorporating dumbbells, barbells and bodyweight exercises to leave you feeling strong and ready to tackle the rest of your day. 

Cardio Kickboxing: Build stamina, improve coordination and flexibility, and burn calories in this high energy workout combining martial arts techniques and cardio. 

Circuit Training: Circuit training is designed as a series of stations for a set amount of time and quick transition to the next station. The intensity will always depend on the effort you have to give for that day. It will keep your heart rate up and keep you moving for the entire duration of the class. 

Core Stability & Mobility: This class focuses on building strength and stability in the core. The core is the foundation of the body and is made up of abdominal, glute, back, and hip muscles. This is where overall balance as well as power in other exercise begins. To strengthen that foundation, we will work through circuits of exercises that build strength in addition to enhancing balance throughout these regions. 

Express Yoga Flow: This is a 45-minute, movement-based class designed to be accessible for everyone, from total beginners to long-time practitioners. The focus is on keeping things simple and fun, using clear cues and plenty of visual demos so you can stay in the flow and focus on your movement. Expect a dynamic "all over the mat" experience featuring smooth transitions and active sequences to get your heart rate up and your body moving. We focus less on "perfect" poses and more on syncing your breath, exploring new transitions, and—most importantly—having fun. Come ready to move, breathe, and leave feeling energized!  

Functional Fitness: In this class we work through exercises that support our activities of daily living. We will focus on movements that you utilize each day such as pushing, pulling, squatting, hinging, and core work. This is a great full body workout that helps strengthen the body and protect from injury as well as build balance and stability. 

HIIT: This class is a full body, strength focused class that incorporates weight training with high intensity interval training. Participants will use a variety of equipment to complete a 45-minute circuit style workout. The mix of strength and interval training leaves you burning fat and building muscle well after class is over. Welcome to all fitness levels. 

Lower & Glute: This Lower body and glute class focuses on building strength, mobility, and endurance in your glutes, hips, and legs. This dynamic class combines purposeful movements to sculpt and activate the lower body, enhancing power and control. Leave feeling energized, confident, and deeply connected to your strength.  

Mat Pilates: This contemporary Pilates mat class combines mobility work, stability training, and core-focused strength into a full-body class suitable for all fitness levels. Emphasizing intentional movement and body awareness, each class focuses on building strength and support through the hips, glutes, and deep core. Expect to leave class feeling more balanced, connected, and stronger for daily life and your other workouts. 

Sculpt & Balance Barre: Every class includes a warmup, a standing compound strength sequence, 360° core work on the mat, and a guided cool down to help ease you into your week from a strong and balanced place! 

Slow Flow Yoga: Slow Flow Yoga class provides a safe space of self-expression for clients to listen to their bodies and connect to their inner voice. Journeying from pose to pose at an easy pace to fully explore each asana and connect to your breath, both beginners and those looking to advance their practice will find fulfillment. Build your confidence and familiarity of standing and balancing poses, refining the fundamentals, and exploring deeper sensations. Each class will close with a 10–15-minute guided healing meditation during our savasana practice. Through meditation you will notice your body and mind more easily let go of daily stressors and challenges feeling calmer, more balanced, and comfortable in your skin. You will leave class feeling poised and refreshed! No experience necessary. 

Strength Training: This is a muscle building total body workout with exercises that transition from one muscle group to the next utilizing various equipment in the studio that will tighten and tone you for an overall leaner body, promote a better posture, and strengthen your core. Iron is tough, but you are tougher! 

Stretch for Recovery: Restore balance and unlock mobility with a class designed to support your training, recovery, and performance! In this 45-minute session, we’ll flow through a series of dynamic and static stretches created to target tight muscles, improve range of motion, and release tension built up from training. Expect to open the hips, lengthen the hamstrings, and ease into shoulder, chest, and back stretches, all while focusing on breath, alignment, and restoration. This class blends active and restorative stretching, giving you the perfect opportunity to ease into stored tension and return to your breath. Whether you’re looking to recover from a tough workout, prevent injury, or simply feel more open and mobile, this stretch-focused training is for you. Stretch for Recovery is your reset button—leaving you grounded, recharged, and ready for your next workout! 

Super Step: Push your limits both mentally and physically in this exciting step class.  We will take you through complex choreographed combinations with directional changes on and around the step.  You'll get your heart racing and blood pumping to fun, energetic music.  Groove to the music as we step the party up a gear for this cardio workout.  Intermediate to Advanced steppers will love this class!  Previous step experience is highly recommended. 

Upper body & Core: Upper & Core is a functional class designed to tone, build muscle, and increase strength for all fitness levels. You will engage your whole upper body and core in a class integrating weights, resistance, isolation, and bodyweight movements designed to improve stability, posture, and strength. 

Vinyasa Yoga: Vinyasa is a style of yoga characterized by stringing postures together so that you move from one to another, seamlessly, using breath. Commonly referred to as “flow” yoga, it is sometimes confused with “power yoga “. The variable nature of Vinyasa Yoga helps to develop a more balanced body as well as prevent repetitive motion injuries that can happen if you are always doing the same thing every day. 

Yin/Power/Vinyasa Yoga: Vinyasa flow with pockets of deep yin stretches balance work, postural alignment, and power holds. You will feel stronger and have more flexibility. 

Yin Yoga: Designed to nurture mobility, flexibility, and strength in your shoulders, spine, and hips. This slow, grounding practice offers deep, focused stretches that can be both physically and mentally challenging. Ideal for active individuals, Yin brings balance by working the connective tissues, inviting your body and mind to explore new levels of stillness and relaxation. No prior experience is needed—come as you are and unwind. 

Zumba:  Take the work out of workout by mixing low-intensity and high-intensity movement for an interval-style, calorie-burning dance fitness party. This total workout will leave you feeling energized and simply awesome