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It’s 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning at Equinox in Greenwich, a bona fide fitness nightclub complete with valet attendants, diesel boys at the front desk and techno beats.

But in this sweat-drenched oasis of power vinyasa yoga, we’re in another place. Another realm, really.

“All those spinners, they have no idea what they’re missing,” Berenblum playfully taunts. “Deep inhales. Deep exhales. That breath allows you to get rid of all the chatter. Scoop your belly. Good, Sara. Really, really strong core.”

Berenblum chats to the rhythm of the breathing.

“My daughters make a lot of my music,” she says as the class perfects a warrior pose (front leg lunging, arms at 180 degrees) to Usher’s “Without You.” “I love this song. It always makes me want to dance.”

Berenblum is a Yale University grad with an MBA from Harvard Business School.

She was a marketing director for Mott’s before she taught chair and happy baby poses on the mat.

“All yoga is good,” she says. “Variety makes life more interesting. You have to find the style and teacher that appeal to you. All yoga helps you connect your mind and body to learn to be an expert in your own body and what you need.”

During class, Berenblum calls this “your yoga.”

“It’s your practice, not mine” she repeats. “Make it work for where you are today.”

That’s the thing about yoga.

It’s a discipline, a ritual, a dance that reinforces the power of now.

Not what you did yesterday.

Not what you have to do in two weeks.

Nothing but the moment.

And there are as many forms of yoga to get you into the moment as there are food groups.

“You’ve got the super-duper, ‘I’m going to knock the socks off everybody,’ you have the, ‘Breeeeathe’ super airy fairy, the stereotypical, which at the beginning, I think a lot of people were resistant to and now, it has exploded,” says Patty Holmes, the pretty blond founder of the Yoga Garden at St. Bartholomew’s Church in White Plains, where she teaches five days a week.

Indeed, 18 million Americans now practice some form of yoga, which hit its stride in the counterculture ’60s after being introduced to the United States in the early part of the 20^th century. In our anxious, hurried times, people are reverting to their center.