Coral Gables Vinyasa Yoga Studio: 90° Power or Unheated Flow

Casa Vinyasa, at 1430 S Dixie Hwy Suite 113-115 across from the University of Miami campus, heats its Power Vinyasa room to 90 degrees with infrared panels and keeps its Vinyasa Flow classes unheated. A single drop-in costs $35, and newcomers can buy a $75 week of unlimited classes that starts on the day of the first class. On the current timetable, weekday classes begin as early as 6 am, and the last Wednesday flow starts at 8:30 pm.

In 2017, Melissa Echevarria set out to create a studio that truly felt like home, after teaching yoga across Miami since 2014. Her owner page says she worked with everyone from top athletes to students living with Parkinson's disease. Born in New York City, she grew up along the coast in Fort Lauderdale, and she has since led retreats abroad, including two in Italy. She still teaches on the weekly board.

The building that houses the studio is Santona Corner, a retail block that Danny Taha's Santona Corner LLC completed in 2008. Inside, the schedule assigns classes to two named rooms, the Living Room and the Family Room, and a separate Private Room holds a Pilates reformer. The studio describes a hospital-grade air purification system and a fresh air fan with an exhaust fan that purges the room between classes.

Power Vinyasa is the house signature. The class page calls it a rigorous, breath-driven flow that builds heat and cardiovascular endurance, and the room is set to 90 degrees. Classes labeled Vibes add a curated playlist, so expect music from the first sun salutation. Infrared works differently from forced air, since it warms bodies and surfaces rather than the air itself, so sweat arrives fast.

Vinyasa Flow slows the same sequences down, with attention to alignment and breath, and the standard version runs without music. It is the class the studio points newer students toward. The Vibes edition of Vinyasa Flow adds a playlist and is held at room temperature with no AC and no heat, which in Coral Gables in October is warmer than it sounds. Rocket Vinyasa, the Larry Schultz sequence inspired by Ashtanga, also runs in a 90-degree room.

Outside the flow classes, the menu is wide. Yin holds seated and supine shapes for three to five minutes and is unheated. Pilates y Mas is a mat core class set to 80 degrees, and Stretch and Recover is an active recovery session kept between 76 and 80 degrees for athletes and lifters. There is also Restorative Yoga with props, a 60-minute Reformer Pilates class, Heated Sculpt with light weights, and Kids Yoga for ages four to nine.

The Mindbody schedule for October 22 to 28, 2026 reads like this. Monday opens with Heated Sculpt Yoga at 6 am, then Power Vinyasa Vibes at 9 am, a 75-minute Rocket Vinyasa at 12 pm, Power at 5:30 pm and Yin at 8:30 pm. Tuesday runs Power Vinyasa at 7:30 am, Vinyasa Flow with Echevarria at 12 pm and Rocket Vinyasa at 7 pm. Wednesday starts at 6 am and closes with Late Night Power Vinyasa Vibes at 8:30 pm.

Thursday has Power at 7:30 am, Vinyasa Flow Vibes at 12 pm and Power at 5:30 pm and 7 pm. Friday starts at 6 am, with Echevarria teaching Power at 9 am and Happy Hour Power at 5:30 pm. Saturday runs Power at 8 am and Vinyasa Flow at 11 am, and Sunday ends with Sunday Salute Power at 5:30 pm and Yin at 7 pm. Studio hours run Mon to Thurs 6 am to 9:30 pm and Fri 6 am to 6:30 pm.

For a first visit, the $75 New Student Special is the obvious buy if you can make three classes in seven days. It covers one week of unlimited classes, starts when you take your first class and must be used within a month of purchase. The $35 drop-in is valid for a month. The 10 Class Pack costs $200, works out to $20 a class, is valid for a year and can be shared with a family member.

Regulars choose between unlimited plans. The $129 monthly membership needs a three-month commitment and can only be bought in person at the desk. The $169 autopay plan has no commitment and can be cancelled anytime. Skip the $179 single month without autopay, because the $169 plan costs less and you can still cancel it. Reformer classes sit outside every unlimited plan at $45 a drop-in, and a 3% service charge applies to all card purchases.

The cheapest night is the monthly full moon class, which is free and open to the public, with donations going straight to a nonprofit partner. This month the Rooftop Full Moon Yoga session runs on Monday, October 26 at 7:30 pm, led by Alexandra Mignone, in support of Breakthrough Miami. Lunch-hour classes at 12 pm run every weekday, and entries tagged +V are also livestreamed to the Virtual Studio.

If the 90-degree room is not what you want that day, there are two backups. Break Free Movement, at 4203 Ponce de Leon Blvd suite 200, lists power yoga, yoga sculpt and a restorative detox class on ClassPass, where one reviewer noted the room had barely reached 88 degrees. Or stay home and use the Casa Vinyasa Virtual Studio, which costs $20 for a day pass or $59 a month and holds hundreds of recorded classes plus livestreams.

The owner page says the studio serves students from four-year-olds in kids classes to people 86 years young, and every instructor holds a 200-hour registration. Reviews posted on the homepage praise a well-heated studio, clean facilities and a friendly front desk. The honest call is this: skip Power and Rocket if humid heat already wears you down, and book unheated Yin or the standard Vinyasa Flow instead.

The nearest Metrorail stop is University station, at 5400 Ponce de Leon Blvd on the Green and Orange lines, which serves the University of Miami campus across US1. Drivers should know Santona Corner was built with a private parking garage of 159 spaces. Book through Mindbody, and create an account before your first visit. For the free full moon nights, the studio asks you to bring your mat and a friend.

Make a short loop of it after class. The Lowe Art Museum, at 1301 Stanford Dr on the University of Miami campus, offers free general admission thanks to Beaux Arts, and advance tickets are recommended for guaranteed entry. Titanic Brewery and Restaurant, at 5813 Ponce de Leon Blvd, has poured house beer since 1997 and calls itself a live music venue and a lunch spot for University of Miami staff and faculty.