At Yoga Mountain, we speak of yoga as the art of gentle persistence, because this is what experience has taught us. Strength comes in relaxation and yielding; mastery comes in grace and effortlessness. We encourage students to attend yoga classes designed for all levels, as we are all beginners at heart and learn best in this open, generous environment. Advanced students are challenged to go deeper into the postures.

Yoga Mountain draws on a variety of asana and pranayama styles and traditions, both ancient and modern, and combines them into an integrated practice of hatha yoga and mindful meditation. To break down resistance to change, one may sometimes need dynamic, flowing vinyasa sequences; at other times reality may be such that one needs gentle, healing, restorative work. Gail Walsh describes the Yoga Mountain approach as a journey of growing awareness in both these aspects of reality - Ha- the sun- the surging, creative force, and Tha - the moon, the receptive, grounding force. In Sanskrit, the word yoga means "union."