Yoga & More

The Benefits of Infrared Yoga

We currentlty have hot yoga, and will be transitioing to infrared yoga very soon. 

nfrared yoga pairs traditional yoga with infrared panels that warm your body directly, rather than the surrounding air. This deep, penetrating warmth increases flexibility, promotes cardiovascular health, and eases muscle soreness. It is also generally more breathable and tolerable than traditional, heavy-air hot yoga.

The unique heating method yields several distinct benefits:

• Deeper Flexibility: Far-infrared wavelengths penetrate your muscles and connective tissue, allowing you to stretch safely with less risk of injury.

• Easier Breathing: Because infrared panels warm the body rather than relying on forced hot air, the room stays cooler and less humid. This makes it more breathable and comfortable for heat-sensitive practitioners.

• Better Circulation & Recovery: The targeted heat causes blood vessels to dilate, improving oxygen delivery to muscles, which accelerates post-workout recovery and reduces joint stiffness.

• Cardiovascular Conditioning: The direct heat safely elevates your heart rate, providing a cardiovascular workout comparable to moderate aerobic exercise.

• Detoxification & Skin Health: The deep sweat induced by infrared waves helps eliminate impurities, clear pores, and promote overall skin purification.
  

Merkaba Healing Arts AkA Santa Anita Hot Yoga

Classes 7 days a week

 Stretch & Flow HOT  A heated Yoga experience to release tension and toxins; to connect mind, body and spirit.

Unique sequences created by your teachers who take into consideration the energy of each Season and the Moon's current cycle. 

An all levels class with emphasis on the mat to modify your practice always. Various props may be provided and included such as weights, blocks, straps or therapy balls.

Yoga & Meditation HOT:  Slow down, rest and restore within this practice. Be guided through a 1 hour journey of Yoga and meditation, for all levels. A safe and supportive environment is created using breath work, Reiki, sound healing and aromatherapy. This is also a heated class. 

Yoga Reiki & Soundbath WARM

Gentle Yoga for all levels with the majority of class focused on a sound bath using various instruments. 

This experience is created for you to feel a sense of clarity, connection and balnace. Harmonize with intentional  frequencies that resonate with our energy for a subtle and natural alignment.

Reiki originated in Japan in 1920 as a traditional form of energy healing. This is included within the experience. More will be explained during the class. 

Yoga Sculpt HOT

A full body workout with option to use 1-6Lb dumbbells. For beginners to advanced students. Add muscle tone and strength to your body with this pumped up Yoga/body sculpting class! Don't forget the added benefits from the heat/sweat too!

Meet our Team

Decompression using a hoist

We use a hoist to do 2 types of stretching and decompression

Using anti-gravity boots, we suspend you and add in some stretches.  There is a height and weight limity.  5'10 and weight limit of the hoist is 300 pounds, but for stretching you, weight limit is also affected by the therapists strenth.

Neck Decompression  combined with movements and stretches.  It requires neck core strength and proper tongue positioning  We take you through movements and stretches

Whole Body Vibaration Therapy

We offer three vibration-based circulation therapies with unique benefits:

Power Plate Combined with Red Light Therapy

• Promotes muscle engagement and lymphatic movement
• Improves flexibility, circulation, and performance
• Useful pre- or post-workout

Rumblex Vibration Platform

• Gentle full-body vibrations
• Relieves muscular tension and supports relaxation
• Suitable for all fitness levels

Chi Machine

• Provides passive aerobic exercise by gently rocking the body
• Stimulates abdominal organ health and lymphatic drainage
• Relieves lower back discomfort and tension
• Known to support spinal alignment and deep relaxation

Stick Mobility

Stick Mobility training combines joint mobilization, strength training, and active stretching using flexible training sticks. Its primary benefits include increased flexibility, joint range of motion, and body awareness. By using the sticks for leverage, you can improve muscle activation, accelerate recovery, and reduce the risk of injury.

Specific benefits of adding this training system to your routine include:

• Improved Posture and Balance: The sticks act as physical feedback tools, helping you align your spine, engage your core, and correct muscular imbalances.

• Increased Joint Health: Active stretching and leverage work to lubricate joints and hydrate connective tissues, which promotes better mobility and less daily joint pain.



• Enhanced Strength and Stability: Driving the flexible sticks into the ground activates the principle of irradiation. This recruits more muscle fibers to help build stability and full-body strength without heavy weights

Stall Bars

Stall bars (or Swedish ladders) deliver incredible full-body benefits. By using just your body weight against the rungs, you can deeply decompress your spine, build immense core power, and dramatically improve your flexibility.

Incorporating stall bars ( provides several key advantages:

• Core & Abdominal Strength: They are ideal for high-level core exercises like hanging leg raises, L-sits, and the famous dragon flag (a movement popularized by Bruce Lee).

• Spinal Health & Posture: Hanging from the bars promotes spinal decompression. The apparatus is often used for physiotherapeutic routines, such as the Schroth method, to help correct spinal alignment and ease back stiffness.

• Enhanced Flexibility: You can easily anchor your feet or hands at various heights to target hamstrings, calves, and lats, allowing for progressive, deep tissue stretching.

• Isometric & Calisthenic Progressions: They serve as an excellent anchor for training advanced bodyweight skills like the human flag, front levers, and assisted push-ups

Teeter Hangups Inversion Table

Teeter Hang Ups inversion tables provide spinal decompression to relieve back pain, sciatica, and muscle tension by utilizing gravity to reverse spinal compression. They are the only inversion tables on the market registered with the FDA as a class 1 medical device.

Core Medical and Physical Benefits

• Spinal Decompression: Reverses gravity's daily compressive forces.

• Disc Rehydration: Creates negative pressure to draw moisture back into spinal discs.

• Nerve Root Relief: Widens the gaps between vertebrae to alleviate pinched nerves and sciatica.

• FDA-Cleared Target Areas: Indicated to treat spinal stenosis, herniated discs, and degenerative disc disease.

• Muscle Relaxation: Elongates shortened muscles and relieves intense muscle spasms.

• Improved Flexibility: Enhances joint mobility, corrects posture, and expands your overall range of motion.

• Enhanced Circulation: Promotes lymphatic flow and sends oxygen-rich blood to the brain to improve focus.

Copper nail bed (or "Sadhu board") foot therapy, featuring copper nails, offers significant wellness benefits by combining acupressure with the natural antimicrobial, highly conductive, and energetically grounding properties of copper. Standing on these boards stimulates over 7,000 nerve endings in the feet, aimed at improving circulation, reducing stress, relieving pain, and boosting overall energy.

Key Benefits of Copper Nail Beds

• Enhanced Acupressure: The sharp, specifically spaced copper nails target reflexology points on the feet, which proponents claim can improve blood circulation, increase energy levels, and enhance mental clarity.
• Antibacterial & Hygienic: Unlike other materials, copper is a natural antimicrobial agent that helps prevent bacterial growth on the nails, making the practice more hygienic.
• Energy & Stress Relief: Known in traditional practices for grounding and healing, copper is believed to cleanse negative energy, while the intense sensation of standing on nails induces deep relaxation and stress reduction.
• Improved Conductivity: Copper's high conductivity allows it to amplify the body's bioelectric responses.
• Healthier Circulation & Pain Reduction: Regular practice is said to help with pain management, inflammation, and blood flow, particularly when used in holistic, therapeutic routines

Ready to Recover Smarter?

Explore our subpages for more in-depth service details, benefits, and pricing. You can learn about our Recovery & Regeneration services, discover the advantages of Compression & Circulation, and find out more about our Massage Therapy offerings. Call us at (626)706-6126 or email MonroviaAthleticMassage@gmail.com
to schedule your first visit.