Saturdays @ 10:30am//209 College Street, Burlington
$25. 60 Minutes.
This class is designed for functional strength and practical mobility. Built on the foundation of traditional yoga patterns, it takes inspiration from martial arts and primal flow to create a movement practice that works for the adult male human body.
No crazy bendy stuff. No sticking legs in places they don’t belong. Just getting your body to move the way its meant to.
(First Class is August 23, 2025)
The Way We Move
The Rare Form Movement style is designed for people, not poses. Poses are tools. Sometimes they are stations along the way, but they’re never to point. You’re a human being, you have way more to do with your life than pose.
RFM’s primary influences are:
Alignment Based Hatha Yoga
Anusara Yoga
Vinyasa Yoga
Primal Flow/Animal Flow
Tai Chi
All classes are taught by Kyle Ferguson, like it or not.
Setting aside for a moment that the human body is dimorphic, so the needs of the female and male bodies are not identical, it’s sometimes important to acknowledge that yoga - for whatever reason - is a female-dominated practice.
This is not bad. It’s pretty awesome, actually. But one of the unfortunate consequences of this situation is that men sometimes avoid yoga spaces. Maybe it’s out of respect, or discomfort, or just a general impression that yoga is designed somehow more for women than men.
And honestly, sometimes it is? Wouldn’t you design your product primarily for your most reliable customers? Makes sense.
It’s vital to keep in mind that yoga is for everyone. In fact, male bodies tend to be tighter and benefit more from mobility work. And embodied mindfulness is beneficial for every human, no matter their identity.
This practice is designed specifically to meet the needs of men’s bodies, after 15 years of experimentation and development in the studio.
So here are the goals:
Create fluid movement through functional mobility and integrated strength training.
Establish your knowledge of the fundamentals of yoga, giving you ownership over your practice.
Develop real confidence your body’s abilities, regardless of your experience. It may surprise you what you can do.
Demonstrate, if you don’t already know, that it feels pretty incredible to do this stuff. (Even if only after class is over…)
Maybe even enjoy yourself.
Why Men’s Yoga?
AND ALSO
Meet people. Like, actual human people in the real world.
We don’t have to get too weird about it, but the world needs more spaces for men to just, like, hang out? Meet new friends? Get into the world somewhere that isn’t a bar or a job site?
What the cyber-gods don’t want you to think about is the fact that men need broad social networks, mostly because we are human beings. People are good for us. And it’s harder and harder these days to find a good spot where you can extend your network, or deepen it.
So look, I’m not saying this is like a damn social mixer or something. We won’t be playing name games and stuff. But it is an opportunity to broaden your circle.
Your call. Either way you’ll get a movement class unlike any you’ve taken before, some new skills, and a step forward into what your body can really do.