GIVING BACK
COMMUNITY YOGA
Washington, DC’s yoga community is top notch when it comes to giving back. DC’s studios stay true to yoga’s roots. Our studios constantly find ways to connect with the community, and make yoga affordable and accessible for all. In this sense, DC truly brings yoga to the people.
Below is a list of some of the more popular studios that offer free, donation-based, and reduced price yoga classes as part of their weekly schedules. (Disclaimer: This list is by no means comprehensive! Please let us know about any omitted studios!)
Boundless Yoga – One Pose at a Time Classes, Sundays 2:15-3:45, $10. Details: http://boundlessyoga.com/classes/the-one-pose-at-a-time-program/
Circle Yoga – offers Saturday Sangha Day, free classes at 12:30p. Details: http://circleyoga.com/classes/free-classes
Down Dog Yoga – offers community class on Fridays at 4pm that are $10 for a drop in and $6 for students. Details: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/asp/home.asp?studioid=323
Flow Yoga Center – offers donation-only (pay-what-you-can) classes every Saturday at 1:30pm to benefit charities dedicated to making yoga and wellness services accessible to individuals in need. Details: http://www.flowyogacenter.com.
Lululemon Athletica – has five DC metro area locations, and a location in Annapolis, all offering free Sunday yoga classes. Lululemon Athletica also offers free yoga in the park, in Dupont Circle south, every Wednesday at 6:30pm, from May through August. Details: http://www.lululemon.com/logancircle and http://www.lululemon.com/georgetown
Quiet Mind Yoga – offers free community classes on Sundays at 4pm, supporting recent Yoga Works teacher training graduates. Details: http://www.quietminddc.com/
Stroga – will be offering pay-what-you-can yoga classes on weekends. Details forthcoming.http://www.stroga.com
Studio Serenity – offers $8 yoga classes, Sunday, Sunday through Thursdays, and offers free classes for members who bring friends to class. Details: http://www.studioserenity.com/freeyogaclass.htm
Tranquil Space – offers donation-based “on-the-go” classes and $5 classes. Proceeds benefit the Tranquil Space Foundation, which helps young women develop their inner voice through yoga, creativity, and leadership. Details: http://www.tranquilspace.com/class_descriptions.html
Unity Woods – offers community on Fridays, 6-7pm in Bethesda. Details: http://www.unitywoods.com/schedules.html
Willow Street Yoga – offers a free Community Class from 12noon-1pm, every Saturday at the Takoma Park location. Details:http://www.willowstreetyoga.com
Yoga Chai – has a weekly $5 Friday Lunch special, also introductory special of $10 for 10 consecutive days of classes. Details:http://www.yogachai.com
Yoga District – all classes are $10 at this studio’s various locations. Yoga District also partners with Street Yoga, whose mission is to give youth and their caregivers the tools to overcome early life trauma, through the sharing of life-building mindfulness and wellness practices grounded in yoga. Details: http://www.yogadistrict.com
Fuel is having a $10 yoga class for DC YOGA WEEK. Wednesday, May 19 5:15-6:15
Check out Circle Yoga’s Summer Solstice Give Back Yoga benefit class Sunday June 20th at noon. Join us for this tradition within yoga of the practice of Sun Salutations. Practicing Sun Salutations is a way of reconnecting to our own source and honoring the radiance of Surya (the sun). The Mission of the Give Back Yoga Foundation is to support and fund certified yoga teachers in all traditions with Give Back projects.
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