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Greener Postures Yoga Greener Postures offers a wide range of classes, workshops, & series for all levels in South Portland & Falmouth, Maine.
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Join us in-studio, outdoors, or online to explore movement, mindfulness, & community. Discover balance, strength, & connection at GPY. Our signature offering is Vinyasa Yoga that increases energy, stamina, improves muscle tone, digestion and concentration and helps you relax and respond to the stresses of daily life. We also have Yin Yoga, Slow Flow, Beginners and Deep Stretch.

GPY Retreat (Week 2) in Sao Miguel in the Azores! 💚 see a friend? Tag em in the comments 🫶 Hope you all had the most bea...
10/13/2026

GPY Retreat (Week 2) in Sao Miguel in the Azores! 💚 see a friend? Tag em in the comments 🫶

Hope you all had the most beautiful trip & welcome home!

PSA: Deepest apologies for the gent in the center of this incredible group shot. The crop did you dirty.
Sincerely, the gpy social media gal trying her best

10/11/2026

Most of us were never taught what the pelvic floor is, let alone how to train it.

Cara Lyon, PT, DPT, is coming to our South Portland studio for an evening devoted to it: what the pelvic floor is, why it needs to be both strong and able to lengthen, and how to reconnect with it and retrain it so it supports you in everyday life and through every life phase. That includes postpartum and post-injury recovery.

This is the kind of thing worth learning from a physical therapist. Pelvic floor muscle training is recommended as a first-line approach for urinary incontinence in women, and a Cochrane review found that women with stress incontinence who did it were far more likely to report improvement or cure than those who didn’t. Cara will cover the anatomy, movement patterns, and common issues, with light movement, breathwork, and time for your questions.

Friday, October 23 | 6:00-7:30 PM, $30 📍 South Portland. Bring a mat (rentals are $2), water, and a pen, since Cara will share a handout.

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Both studios are stocked w new sweatshirts! 🟢🔵 Thanks to our girl Caylin Henderson | RYT 500 | Photographer for a few sh...
10/05/2026

Both studios are stocked w new sweatshirts! 🟢🔵

Thanks to our girl Caylin Henderson | RYT 500 | Photographer for a few shots in the wild 🍃🍁🍂 and congratulations girlie 💍

GPY Retreat (Week 1) in Sao Miguel in the Azores! 💚 see a friend? Tag em in the comments 🫶
10/04/2026

GPY Retreat (Week 1) in Sao Miguel in the Azores! 💚 see a friend? Tag em in the comments 🫶

10/04/2026

Meet Anne — one of GPY’s go-to subs across just about every class type, and the teacher you’ll find every Saturday in Falmouth for 9:00 AM Vinyasa Flow and 10:30 AM Yin Yoga.

Anne came to yoga in 2017, drawn to its healing potential after a string of surgeries gave her a reason to reset and start over. She fell hard for the mental clarity, physical strength, and community it offered, and in June 2024 completed her 200-hour Yoga Alliance teacher training, followed soon after by certifications in Barre and Pilates-mat through Balanced Body. Her classes are built around connecting breath and movement, tuned to the body’s natural rhythm — vigorous, accessible, and genuinely music-driven. She wants every student leaving her class to feel stronger, more grounded, and a little more present in their actual life, not just on the mat.

Off the mat, Anne holds a BS in biology and an MS in chemical ecology, co-owns a mental fitness and executive coaching business with her husband, and is a mom who’s just as likely to be found growing and cooking food, hiking, fishing, or dancing as she is teaching class.

You can also catch Anne subbing Barre-Style Mat Conditioning — a 45-minute class blending strength-bearing yoga shapes with smaller, barre-inspired movements using blocks, therabands, and blankets. It’s a focused, full-body strength and endurance class that never loses the mindfulness and alignment at its core.

Find Anne Saturdays in Falmouth, or keep an eye out — she might be teaching your usual class in South Portland too.

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Most of us live almost entirely in one layer — the one we can see in a mirror — without realizing the yoga tradition map...
10/01/2026

Most of us live almost entirely in one layer — the one we can see in a mirror — without realizing the yoga tradition maps four more underneath it. That’s not a flaw; it’s just where modern life tends to keep our attention: task lists, screens, the physical to-do of a day. The koshas aren’t asking you to abandon that layer. They’re just naming what else is there, so you have a map for it next time you notice something in you that a mirror can’t explain.

This is the layer that talks to you before your mind catches up — the tight jaw you didn’t notice until someone pointed it out, the shoulders creeping toward your ears during a stressful week, the exhaustion that shows up in your body a full day before you’d admit to being tired. Annamaya kosha isn’t just “the physical body” in an abstract sense; it’s the part of you that’s often the first to know something, even when the rest of you is still catching up. That’s part of why a physical practice can shift your whole state before you’ve thought a single new thought — the body got there first.

You’ve felt this layer more than you realize. It’s the shallow, high breath that shows up when you’re scrolling and don’t notice your shoulders have crept up + your jaw has tightened — and it’s the completely different breath that arrives a few seconds after you consciously slow down. Nothing about your physical body changed in that moment. What changed was this layer: the energy underneath the muscle, doing its quiet work of regulating you, whether or not you’re paying attention to it. Pranayama exists because this layer responds fast — faster than thought, faster than willpower.

This is the layer replaying the email you sent an hour ago, or running a to-do list during savasana even though you’re lying perfectly still. It’s not misbehaving — it’s doing exactly its job, which is to process, react, and narrate, nonstop, all day. Most of us assume that voice is just “who we are.” The koshas suggest otherwise: it’s one layer, doing one job, and it’s possible to notice it running without being fully swept into it. That noticing — not the silencing — is usually where meditation actually starts to work.

This layer shows up in the

09/27/2026

New this fall: Prenatal Yoga at our Falmouth studio is now drop-in — no series, no six-week commitment, just come when it works for you.

Research on prenatal yoga has found real, tangible benefits: several recent reviews link a regular practice to reduced anxiety and depression during pregnancy, and a 2024 randomized trial found it was associated with less discomfort and a higher rate of spontaneous vaginal birth in first-time mothers. None of this replaces your prenatal care — it’s a meaningful complement to it.

Each 75-minute class with Abby blends breath awareness, restorative postures, and gentle movement to help you prepare physically, mentally, and emotionally for childbirth, with modifications for wherever you are in your pregnancy. It’s also simply a space to be around other expecting parents — to talk through the discomforts and the joys, without judgment.

Suitable for all levels and all stages of pregnancy.

Mondays, 6:00–7:15 PM, Falmouth studio. Drop in anytime — no series required.

Something has landed on Saturdays: a Community Class, every week at 4:00 PM in our South Portland studio, taught by Jess...
09/24/2026

Something has landed on Saturdays: a Community Class, every week at 4:00 PM in our South Portland studio, taught by Jessica or Rebecca.

Community Class is exactly what it sounds like — a chance to practice alongside neighbors, regulars, and first-timers alike, in a room built around connection as much as movement. Bring a friend, or just come end your Saturday a little more grounded than you started it.

Saturdays, 4:00 PM, South Portland studio.

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Jessica has been practicing yoga since 2010 and completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in 2020, continuing her education every year since. Her focus is on the connection between movement, breath, and the nervous system — something she’s studied closely through her work teaching first responders and others in high-stress professions. That experience shapes how she teaches everyone: yoga as a real tool for managing stress, building resilience, and finding balance, on and off the mat.

Her Fundamental Yoga Flow classes are an approachable way to build confidence with foundational postures, mindful movement, and breath, always encouraging students to listen to and honor their bodies. Whether you’re brand new to yoga, reconnecting with the basics, or just looking for a space to slow down, Jessica’s classes are built to welcome you in.

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Rebecca has practiced yoga for most of her adult life, and has loved deepening that practice at Greener Postures since 2022. In 2026, she completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training with Erin Ehlers at Portland Yoga Project, and she’s still actively seeking out ways to keep learning. Her classes carry a genuine curiosity about the body and mind, paired with a love of vinyasa flow and movement — she wants every student, at every level, to leave having learned something new and feeling a little more empowered than when they walked in.

Outside the studio, her global career in experiential education shapes how she teaches — bringing perspective, facilitation, and adaptability onto the mat. When she’s not tr

09/22/2026

🚨CAPTIONS FOR FALL EQUINOX REFLECTIONS ➡️➡️➡️ Today the earth holds an old kind of stillness — the sun crossing the equator, day and night meeting almost exactly in the middle. Cultures across the world have marked this exact moment for centuries: as harvest, as threshold, as a quiet invitation to notice what season you’re actually in, not just outside, but within. You don’t need a name for it to feel it. Something in the air has already started to turn.



In Japan, this same turning point is marked by Higan — a word that translates roughly to “the other shore,” a time to sit quietly with what’s equal and let neither the light nor the dark pull too hard. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, autumn belongs to the Metal element: clarity, distillation, keeping only what still serves you. Different language, same instinct. Balance was never about holding everything perfectly in place. It’s about noticing when to hold on, and when to let something go.

No tree argues with autumn. It doesn’t grip the leaf a little longer because the color is nice, or because it’s uneasy about the bare branch underneath. It simply releases — not as loss, but as preparation, making room for what the next season will actually need. There’s something worth borrowing in that kind of letting go: not dramatic, not painful, just honest. What are you still holding that’s already served its season?

The equinox has always doubled as an invitation — Mabon’s harvest gratitude, Higan’s stillness, the oldest instinct of gathering in before the dark months arrive. On the mat, that might look like less reaching and more settling: fewer poses chasing tomorrow, more time in the ones that simply ask you to be here. However you mark it, the days are asking something different of you now. It’s worth listening.

Two Ways to Take Care of Yourself This October >>> Swipe to see what’s coming up on October 2: a Deep Stretch + Sound He...
09/20/2026

Two Ways to Take Care of Yourself This October >>> Swipe to see what’s coming up on October 2: a Deep Stretch + Sound Healing workshop with Danielle and Emily in South Portland, and a Breath + Movement for Childbirth workshop with Abby in Falmouth. One is about slowing all the way down. The other is about building real tools for one of the biggest days of your life. Both are worth the evening.



A hands-on workshop for expectant parents preparing for labor, delivery, and the postpartum period. Abby, GPY’s prenatal yoga teacher, guides participants and their birth partners through yoga postures for labor, visualization and breathwork, and partner massage techniques for managing discomfort during active labor — plus a chance to connect with other expectant parents in the community. Open to all stages of pregnancy, no yoga experience necessary.

Breath + Movement for Childbirth w/ Abby — Friday, Oct. 2, 6–8 PM, $50/pair, Falmouth



A slower-paced, floor-based workshop combining deep stretch, breathwork, massage balls, and supportive props with soothing sound healing. Danielle guides a grounding, tension-releasing practice while Emily weaves in calming vibrations to help the nervous system settle. The evening closes with an extended savasana — space to fully surrender and recharge.

Deep Stretch + Sound Healing w/ Danielle + Emily — Friday, Oct. 2, 6–7:30 PM, $30, South Portland

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740 Broadway
South Portland, ME
04106

Opening Hours

Monday 6am - 8:30pm
Tuesday 6am - 8:30pm
Wednesday 6am - 8:30pm
Thursday 6am - 8:30pm
Friday 6am - 8:30pm
Saturday 7:30am - 7pm
Sunday 7:30am - 7pm

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+12072106525

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