As Portland’s Kripalu-affiliated studio, we help you to listen to your body, create a healthy lifestyle, and enjoy the process. We offer yoga classes for all types of experience, bodies, and abilities. Our connection with the Kripalu tradition means that we encourage self-acceptance, listening to your own body’s wisdom, and developing your potential to be fully alive and present in life as well as in your yoga practice.

WholeHeart opened its doors in 1996 and continues to be a reliable, steady center offering a wealth of experience and knowledge. We have offered Kripalu Yoga since our beginning and are expanding in 2011 to include some other schools of yoga which, like Kripalu, focus on developing awareness and wholeness. Our teachers are all fully certified by Kripalu or similar teaching centers and are highly trained. Teachers at WholeHeart are dedicated to living our yoga, and continuing our own practices as students. Our name comes from the concept of living wholeheartedly, embracing life as it is!

We are an independently owned and operated Kripalu Affiliated Studio. Kripalu Center in Stockbridge, Mass., is the largest yoga and health center in North America, and where most of us trained as teachers. We are in alignment with Kripalu’s mission “to produce thriving in individuals and society through yoga-inspired education”.

We use “green” products at WholeHeart whenever possible. All our paper products are 100% recycled paper, and we sell only environmentally-friendly mats and cushions. We also give a portion of our proceeds to charitable organizations each year.