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Intro series

Your Front membership gets you so much more than just access to climbing walls! Try out our full roster of offerings with other newbies and leave with confidence, new buddies, and your new favorite activity.

Intro to Climbing

Participants must be age 14 or older.

This class is the one-shop stop for your fundamental climbing needs! Taught over the course of two 2-hour sessions, Intro to Climbing includes a Top-Rope Lesson, Bouldering Orientation, and basic movement instruction, giving you all the tools you need to kick off your climbing journey.

Intro to Climbing is also a great way to learn your way around the gym, meet new friends, and experience all the climbing our facilities have to offer. Guests who start a membership the same day they take the class get their start-up fee waived! Rental gear is included.

Skills taught:
  • Putting on a harness
  • Tying-in
  • Top-rope belaying and communication
  • Bouldering etiquette
  • Falling considerations while bouldering
  • Autobelay use
  • Hand and foothold types
  • Secure moving and resting
  • Climbing rating systems

Intro to Yoga

New to yoga or need a refresher? Come experience all the mental and physical benefits of this ancient practice. A consistent yoga practice will help you find more inner peace, focus, calmness, strength, flexibility and agility of body and mind, and so much more! All bodies can benefit from yoga, and we welcome everyone! All you need is a mat, some clothes that stretch, and the willingness to show up as you are and give it a try! In this class, you will experience all six movements of the spine, holding some simple postures (asanas) sequenced in a body-intelligent way with warm up and cool down, along with some easy breathing and mind calming techniques. We hope to help you fall in love with yoga as much as we have!

Intro to Mysore

Experience Mysore yoga with our supportive and knowledgeable Ashtanga teaching team guiding the way. Sought after worldwide, Mysore Ashtanga is an ancient style of yoga that’s personally adapted to each student’s abilities and challenges. Practitioners will learn how to evolve a practice of asanas (postures) in a specific sequence called the Primary Series, designed to bring balance and health to the body. You’ll learn two types of sun salutations and a simple sequences of asanas and vinyasas, which are movements linking the asanas together with the energies of the breath. Our Intro to Mysore Ashtanga class is intended for those new to Ashtanga, or those familiar with Ashtanga who are ready to learn (or re-learn) the Mysore style. Yoga at The Front Climbing Club is the only yoga shala (school) in Utah with teachers authorized by R. Sharath Jois of Mysore, India, the current head teacher or “guru” of Ashtanga yoga.

Intro to Tai Chi

Tai chi is extremely popular around the world, especially in Asia, and for good reason: it’s an internal art that’s reflected outwardly through smooth, peaceful patterns of movement and alignment. We believe everyone can benefit greatly from this ancient, mysterious practice. Tai chi helps promote health, injury recovery, balance, stress relief, strength, and groundedness. Our experienced instructor James Shook has been teaching tai chi since 2012 and practicing tai chi since 2002. He founded the great Salt Lake Tai Chi China society in Utah and Resolution Tai Chi in Oregon. This class will give you all the tools you need to practice tai chi in the way that’s most beneficial for you!

Group Fitness

Intro to Lifting

Intro to Lifting will help you learn good form and familiarize yourself with foundational strength training movements, using various equipment that The Front offers (i.e. barbells, squat racks, cables, free weights, etc.). 

All levels are welcome to this class, especially anyone wanting to learn or expand their knowledge of weightlifting by training in the main gym space. 

Expect to get a great workout, receive coaching from our trainers to perform your best, and improve your gym confidence! 

Jiu-Jitsu 101 Foundations

This course is designed to provide new students with a confident foundation to step into The Front’s Jiu-Jitsu program. The curriculum will cover Jiu-Jitsu movement, self-defense, and positional hierarchy, as well as introduce students to the sport’s culture before transitioning to our regularly scheduled program. This course is free for members.