Spirit Yoga was founded by a small group of friends who wanted to bring affordable and approachable yoga to their community. Yoga is too important to only be available to certain demographics of society. There is no pricing structure at the studio; Spirit Yoga practices a donation-based system where the students give what they can in exchange for receiving the physical, mental and spiritual benefits of yoga. We believe that most people have a respect and appreciation for the practice and that in order to truly benefit from it, an exchange is necessary. The exchange doesn’t have to be in currency, it can also be in ‘kind’, meaning that a trade of some kind, time, a service or goods, is acceptable. We’ll also tell you where your money is going. For example, on a $10 class donation, 20% goes to the teacher, 10% goes towards utilities, 15% goes towards the studio rent, 15% goes towards local community charities and shelters, 10% goes towards studio expenses like cleaning and maintenance, 20% goes back into growing the studio, making it better and hopefully opening the next one and finally 10% goes to the owners, who are both teachers and students, just like yourself.