About Open Heart Yoga School
"At Open Heart I found a different kind of yoga
than I had ever
experienced before.
A yoga with compassionate energy that flows thick through the room and
in and out of each person there.
A yoga that taps into something deeper than body movement- a healing,
exploration based, therapeutic yoga." - Student, Colie Taico
Open Heart Yoga School is located in Lloyd Street
Court at 209 Lloyd Street,
Suite 210, Carrboro, North
Carolina. It opened in April, 2010, and was founded by Allison Dennis
and Ti
Harmony with much help from their yoga community.
We offer spiritually oriented yoga with
a devotional focus and all classes
are donation based. Please bring your
own mat to class because it's more sanitary. You can carry
your good yoga vibes with you to help in your
future practices, and hopefully, you can always have your favorite mat.
We will have a few loaners in case you forget yours.
For more information about our school and all of its
offerings, please contact
us.
Donation Based Yoga
The Philosophy
In offering yoga classes by donation we trust that Yoga is intended for
all earnest spiritual seekers and we stand in the long tradition of
yoga in which people of
any financial status may study the profound teachings of Yoga and God
and Life.
Donation based yoga does not mean "free". It means giving
something of value in a quantity you are able and that reflects the
benefits you get from your class time
so we can all support one another.
In this tradition the students express
their
gratitude by generously supporting the teacher. Those with more ability
to pay offer more, while those with less ability to pay offer less. The
teacher in turn expresses gratitude to his or her own teachers and to
the Divine for having received both the teachings of Yoga and the
motivation to follow them. By deepening the experience and practice of
Yoga, and by sharing Yoga as fully and deeply as possible; the teacher
is honoring a commitment to the welfare and liberation of the students.
The Practical
Suggested Donation is $5 - $20. If possible, please consider leaving
$10-15 which is the going rate at area studios. We won't turn you away
if you pay less and we won't turn you away if you pay more. In general
money is the preferred form of the energy exchange that you may give,
but there are other ways to give. Allison or Ti are happy to talk with
you about that. And please know that if after reading this, if you
don't come to class at all or as often as you would like because money
is an issue, then we are failing in our mission and might as well be
charging a set rate and purposely keeping out those who can't pay. We
are endeavoring to have a new way, and we will be learning as we go
along. As teachers, we would rather have full classes with people
paying less than half full classes with everyone paying more.
CASH OR CHECK ONLY.
We do
not have
a computer, we do not take credit cards, and there
is no "check in" for class. There will be a box near the front door of
the studio where you can leave your donation. Each donation you leave
goes directly to the teacher whose class you are attending. You are not
donating to the studio, but to the teacher, so PLEASE MAKE CHECKS OUT
TO THE TEACHER, not to the studio. The teacher then offers money to the
studio to cover costs. If your check is returned, we will charge you a
ridiculous sum and force you to spend an entire class in Hanumanasana
(forward splits).
Although we do not offer pass cards or
monthly unlimited in the traditional sense, you can make a donation to
a teacher for multiple classes or a set amount of time, eg. a month or
a year, and the teacher will be happy to help you track your donation
if that is helpful for you. You decide how much you are giving for each
class/month/year. We will help you with this while allowing for
anonymity. You may also just show up and donate anonymously.
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