What songs should I play in a yoga class?

Match the music to the class arc: ambient or low-BPM tracks for centering, a rising groove through warm-up and the building flow, your biggest track timed to the peak pose, then a fast drop into warm, melodic cool-down and quiet savasana. This article gives eight complete, ready-to-teach 60-minute setlists across power vinyasa, acoustic folk, a traditional vocal flow, kirtan chant, yin, and restorative, with a track, BPM, and placement for every phase.

What is a good power vinyasa playlist?

A power vinyasa playlist should climb from a calm centering through sun salutations and a standing flow to a clear peak, then drop into cool-down and savasana. This article includes three full power vinyasa sets on the same arc: Studio (eclectic, melodic house — Ocie Elliott, Kid Francescoli, Elderbrook, AVAION), Basshead (bass-forward but melodic — an LSDREAM, LIGHTCODE and GRiZ spine, with Fred again..), and Deep House (organic and continuous — Lane 8, Ben Böhmer, Armen Miran).

What music is best for yin and restorative yoga?

Both want long, mostly beatless pieces that hold space rather than drive movement — several minutes per track so one piece can cover a three-to-five-minute hold. This article splits them: the yin set is austere ambient and neoclassical (Essie Jain, Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds, Garth Stevenson, East Forest, with tracks up to thirteen minutes), while the restorative set is softer, melodic downtempo (a tone bath to open, ANNA, ODESZA instrumentals, Above & Beyond, and a fourteen-minute East Forest guided savasana).

How long should a yoga class playlist be?

Sequence about sixty minutes of music for a sixty-minute class, but build the playlist out to 75–80 minutes so a slow-arriving room or a long peak never leaves you in silence. Front-load extra ambient and savasana tracks, sequence everything in arc order, and turn shuffle off so the order holds.

How do I build a yoga playlist around a CueCraft class?

Generate a class in CueCraft to get a phase arc with timings and a named peak pose. Use that arc as your playlist's section map: fill one bucket per phase (centering, warm-up, building flow, peak, cool-down, savasana), match each phase's BPM and feel, time your biggest track's drop to the peak pose, then overshoot to 75–80 minutes and lock the order. Or skip the assembly: the free Yoga Mixtape generator at /playlist produces a fresh phase-sequenced set in one tap.

Eight ready-to-teach yoga class playlists, sequenced by phase

Eight complete, roughly sixty-minute playlists, each sequenced by class phase (centering, warm-up, building flow, peak, cool-down, savasana). BPM is a tempo guide; times are approximate; swap any track for a same-role substitute. The reasoning behind each phase is in the soundtrack guide at /blog/building-a-yoga-playlist.

Power Vinyasa — Studio (~58:40, 15 tracks)

Eclectic, melodic studio sound. Centering: Feeling Fine — Ocie Elliott (126), In the Water I Am Beautiful — City and Colour (80). Warm-up / Surya: I Am Still Here — Arutani (103), Apart — Saive (91). Building flow / standing: Run, Run — Kid Francescoli (126), Odessa — Monohole (100), Abundance — Equanimous (111), Get What You Give — Felix Cartal (121). Peak: Teardrop — Elderbrook (123), COLORS — AVAION (130), Ur Alive — ILLENIUM (124), ELECTRIC LOVE — AVELLO (130). Cool-down / floor: Stardust (Desert Dwellers Remix) — Porangui (95). Savasana: Moving Through — Alexa Sunshine Rose (73), Prep For Flight — David Newman (86).

Power Vinyasa — Basshead (~58:18, 14 tracks)

Bass-driven flow on an LSDREAM / LIGHTCODE / GRiZ spine, melodic low end into a heavy peak. Centering: Ace of Cups — LIGHTCODE, All I Need — GRiZ. Warm-up: Stardust (Desert Dwellers Remix) — Porangui (95), Color of Your Soul — GRiZ. Building flow: Overthinker (CloZee Remix) — INZO (89), Follow the Vibe — LSDREAM, Infinite — GRiZ. Peak: Nisaba — Spectacle (144), Pull Me Closer — LSDREAM, Home — Jaenga (145), leavemealone — Fred again.. (174). Cool-down: Nobody Else — GRiZ, ILY — LSDREAM. Savasana: Four of Swords — LIGHTCODE.

Power Vinyasa — Deep House (~57:50, 13 tracks)

Melodic, organic deep house. Centering: Andromeda — Be Svendsen (114). Warm-up: Road — Lane 8 (122), Rust — Ben Böhmer (124). Building flow: Laya (Extended) — Good Vibes Collective (116, a 31-minute continuous mix), Aware — Armen Miran (108), Stop the Time — AVAION (122), Little Darling — Marsh (124). Peak: Aldebaran — Hraach & Armen Miran (116), Reload — Symphony of Unity (128). Cool-down / floor: Moon Moves — Alissa Jo (124), A Deep Feeling — YokoO (118). Savasana: Mare (feat. Mohna) — Christian Löffler (80), 11 — Equanimous (109).

Acoustic / Folk (~60:24, 16 tracks)

Folksy acoustic slow-flow, warm and singable. Centering: A Heart Arcane — Horse Feathers (117), Never Heard a Sound — The Paper Kites (97). Warm-up: The Girl — City and Colour (109), Where Do We Go From Here — Matt Pryor (90). Building flow: 5 Years Time — Noah and the Whale (122), Stubborn Love — The Lumineers (115), I Sing I Swim — Seabear (120), Sedona — Houndmouth (135), Don't Haunt This Place — The Rural Alberta Advantage. Peak: Little Talks — Of Monsters and Men (103), Home — Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros (112), The Cave — Mumford & Sons (142). Cool-down: We Found Each Other in the Dark — City and Colour (111), Hero (Acoustic) — Family of the Year (87). Savasana: Skinny Love — Bon Iver (77), Sailor Song — Gigi Perez (95).

Traditional Flow (~56:58, 12 tracks)

Organic yoga-vocal moving flow. Centering: Gayatri — Sam Garrett. Warm-up: Lakshmi (I Choose to Live in Love) — Sam Garrett, Green Mountain State — Trevor Hall (65). Building flow: Laya (Extended) — Good Vibes Collective (116, a 31-minute organic bed), Undress Your Mind (cypress Remix) — May Zoean, Kiss the Earth — Ajeet, Jai Ma — Janet Stone. Peak: The Lime Tree — Trevor Hall (125), Spirit Bird — Xavier Rudd (126). Cool-down: Journey — Sam Garrett, Floating Sweetness — DJ Drez. Savasana: Om Namo Bhagavate — Deva Premal.

Kirtan / Mantra (~56:23, 9 tracks)

Devotional call-and-response chant building to an ecstatic peak. Centering: Heart Chakra — Beautiful Chorus, Om Sahana Vavatu (Shanti Mantra) — Deva Premal. Building chant: Rakhe Rakhan Har — Mirabai Ceiba, Manipuri Hare Krishna — The Hanumen, Ang Sung Wahe Guru / Love Like the Sun — Jaya Lakshmi and Ananda. Peak kirtan: Baba Hanuman — Krishna Das (13:58). Cool-down: Little Moon — Gone Gone Beyond, Long Time Sun — Snatam Kaur. Savasana: Gayatri Mantra — Deva Premal (82).

Restorative (~55:16, 12 tracks)

Gentle instrumental downtempo, soft and supported. Arrival: 528 Hz Anxiety Relief — Miracle Tones (139), Vam Mantra — Pedro Soares Lyra (67). Long holds (front body): Mars — Beauvois (100), Let You In (feat. East Forest) — ANNA (122), they sink — Ólafur Arnalds. Long holds (hips/twists): Road — Lane 8 (122), Higher Ground (Reprise) Instrumental — ODESZA (104), Falls (Reprise) Instrumental — ODESZA (112). Deep rest: Golden (Edit) — Above & Beyond (100), Past Lives — sapientdream (116), Past Lives (Piano Version) — sapientdream (105). Savasana / meditation: Inward — East Forest (101, 14:02).

Yin (~56:40, 8 tracks)

Long ambient and neoclassical holds, almost no beat. Arrival: Opening — Essie Jain (70), Horizon — Garth Stevenson. Long holds (front body): Says — Nils Frahm (75), they sink — Ólafur Arnalds. Long holds (hips/twists): Dawn — Garth Stevenson (13:00). Deep rest: For Elena — East Forest, Breathing Space — Sacred Earth. Savasana / meditation: Sit Around the Fire — Jon Hopkins, Ram Dass & East Forest.

How to build your own around a CueCraft class

CueCraft builds the class, not the music, but a generated class is the ideal playlist blueprint. Generate a class (style, peak pose, length, focus); read its phase arc and timings; fill one bucket of tracks per phase, matching each phase's BPM and feel; time your biggest track's drop to the peak pose; then overshoot to 75–80 minutes, sequence in arc order, and turn shuffle off.

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