14th Street Yoga DC

Aqeel Yaseen’s yoga studio on 14th St. helps the neighborhood walk the line between work and play, offering yoga classes to help residents detox, cope with stress, get a work-out, find inner peace, or just stretch out. This location offers two practice spaces where you can expect to make new acquaintances…

While without a reception room or boutique, the two Yoga District 14th Street practice spaces are sun-filled and welcome students of all levels of experience and physical ability.

For years, Aqeel worked at the record store across the street from Yoga District 14th Street. He didn’t set foot in the studio– avoiding the whole “yoga scene.” But once Aqeel gave the studio a chance, he found a laid back community of people that just want to feel better (and who don’t always want to go to happy hour at area bars to do it).

Soon enough, Aqeel was volunteering at the studio, eventually running the studio by day and DJing by night. Aqeel brings his two worlds together with monthly “Midnight Yoga” classes that he DJs while Yoga District founder Jasmine C. teaches, as well as the weekly classes he teaches at a U Street bar to service industry folks with overworked backs and livers.

Among his classes is “Yoga for Misfits,” a class for those new to yoga who feel the same way Aqeel does: not necessarily into stereotypical yoga stuff, but into the benefits. Aqeel’s teaching style honors the Dharma Mittra flow yoga tradition, and he is a Yoga Alliance certified RYT 200.