Sweetgrass Yoga

Sweetgrass Yoga is a Pilates studio in Christiansburg, Virginia. It offers yoga classes and a community built around mindful practice, and it welcomes both people who have never done yoga and those who have practiced for years. The studio holds a rating of 5.00 from the customers who have reviewed it.

Athena Spencer owns Sweetgrass Yoga. She is a Kunga-trained yoga teacher, a scientist by trade, and a lifelong fitness enthusiast. She first came to yoga to improve flexibility and support her endurance running, and found in it the ability to quiet the mind and create space for stillness. She was an original member of the studio and valued having a yoga space in Christiansburg; when the chance came to purchase it, she wanted to carry forward the foundation Chris Chittenden had built.

As a teacher, Athena Spencer watches students explore variations, or entirely different postures, during class, and she builds a practice around syncing breath to movement so it supports each student as they are. The studio's core values hold that everyone in a class should trust they belong, regardless of how their body moves, what they look like, what they believe, or who they love.

The studio sits on West Main Street, a few steps from the Montgomery County Bicentennial and the Montgomery County War Memorial, and about a tenth of a mile from the Christiansburg Post Office. North Franklin Street is just up the road.

Sweetgrass Yoga is known for the community it has built around its classes, and the 5.00 rating reflects how its students regard that work. For Christiansburg, it is a place to practice yoga alongside neighbors.