How much do you pay for a yoga class?

MistressPi

There's a yoga studio that I used to visit; when I checked its price schedule recently, I discovered that a single class is $22. This seems expensive. If you buy a series, the per class price gradually drops; if you buy a series of 20 classes the price drops down to $16 per class, which is about what I was expecting to pay. Duration for the class in most cases is 1.5 hours. The studio is well respected, and located in the greater Los Angeles area.

Where do you live, and how much do you pay for a single, drop-in class?

pomegranatecloud

$20 plus tax for a single class. 5 classes for $90 ($18 per class) plus tax. 10 classes for $160 ($16 per class) plus tax. $108 plus tax for a monthly membership.

jfan175

Holy crap, you can buy a couple Rodney Yee yoga DVD's for the price of one class.

GiddyupTim

In Sacramento, I can get a five-class pass for $79 at a studio I like, and the drop-in rate is $17.
The introductory rate for a month of unlimited classes is about $30 for most studios.
Course, these classes all tend to be an hour, not an hour and a half.

corinasue1143

Go to a community center. Pay $10/month. Used to offer 4 classes a week. Now 2 classes a week. Not much choice about time or teachers. Luckily we have had mostly very good teachers

concordancia

corinasue1143 wrote: »

Go to a community center. Pay $10/month. Used to offer 4 classes a week. Now 2 classes a week. Not much choice about time or teachers. Luckily we have had mostly very good teachers

The yoga studios around here don't have much choice about time, either, offering two very different classes a day. There is a woman teaching at the park across the street for $30/class and she doesn't even have overhead!! The place I want to try has a first month introductory rate of $50, but you have to pay for parking in that neighborhood.

I just downloaded Down Dog and ordered a few more yoga zone DVDs from Netflix. I will pay for the classes when my progress stalls out.

skinnyrev2b

YouTube is your friend. .. I use Yoga with Adriene. She's got several 30 day programmes I'm working my way through. Then cycle through them. End of, and free!

TiisTitanium

Price varies so much between classes and studio's and specialisation (and what part of the world you are actually in)

Re the video's - sure they are cheaper but you have no feedback about whether you doing in properly or not which is quite important in yoga. I don't think video's give you modifications for moves that are beyond you bodies current capabilities. So while a DVD or You tube might be cheap it is a false economy if you actually want to learn yoga properly

skinnyrev2b

TiisTitanium wrote: »

Re the video's - sure they are cheaper but you have no feedback about whether you doing in properly or not which is quite important in yoga. I don't think video's give you modifications for moves that are beyond you bodies current capabilities. So while a DVD or You tube might be cheap it is a false economy if you actually want to learn yoga properly

Thanks, that's helpful clarification.
The OP suggests they have already got experience with Yoga, so hopefully they know the basics.
Some YouTubers also have foundation videos to help you work on the form. If in doubt, listen to your body. Pain is not a virtue!
I get more feedback from the video (remember too... be aware that...) than from my yoga teacher, but that says a lot about the live class!

urloved33

nc - no drop in classes. monthly fees to join yoga studios w limited visits. min 100.00 monthly and the mberships go up from there. I used to take the yoga classes at Lifetime because they are part of the mberships. Left that gym and joined a gym w no yoga classes - now I do it at home, you tube.

tulips_and_tea

I pay $10 per hour long class, but the studio I go to (which has a large variety of classes and times) is donation based. Some people pay more, some pay less.

Even better, for $300 a year you can get unlimited classes at two locations. To me, that's a great deal so I plan on doing this soon.

Sabine_Stroehm

$8 if I just want to pay for "yoga hour". I did that for a long time.
Now I have a monthly pass for $90. I tend to go 3-4 times a week.

If you're newish to yoga find a studio. The instruction can NOT be over estimated.

Sabine_Stroehm

corinasue1143 wrote: »

Go to a community center. Pay $10/month. Used to offer 4 classes a week. Now 2 classes a week. Not much choice about time or teachers. Luckily we have had mostly very good teachers

I tried this approach briefly. In my area "yoga" was basically just high school gym class stretching. YMMV.

ew_david

$14 for drop in or $120 for a 10 class pass or $105 for unlimited (with a three month commitment). I pay for the 10 class pass because I can't always get there.

Personally, there is no substitute for a good studio. I will pay for my classes before I'd do it at home with YouTube. I need the full experience of the instructor and the hot, dark room where I'm forced to concentrate. There is too much distraction for me at home.

corinasue1143

Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »

corinasue1143 wrote: »

Go to a community center. Pay $10/month. Used to offer 4 classes a week. Now 2 classes a week. Not much choice about time or teachers. Luckily we have had mostly very good teachers

I tried this approach briefly. In my area "yoga" was basically just high school gym class stretching. YMMV.

I understand. One of the teachers I love is kind of like this. She knows yoga, but she has grade school kids herself and she is a sub teacher, so she kind of has a classroom attitude. But it's still a great class.

One of our sub teachers must have learned yoga at a piyo or yogalates studio. She has no idea of the core beliefs of yoga. She very much believes in "no pain, no gain". Kind of hard on us. Mostly a group of retired people and younger people with medical problems that keep us out of active and fun boot camp and aerobics classes. Remember I said we have MOSTLY very good teachers.

LZMiner

I'm just outside Chicago, and the studios are between $16 - $20 per class. I prefer the online stuff, though, because of the flexibility of not having to leave my house!

boehle

Drop in rate to the only place I have been is $14 a class.
Monthly price to go anytime is $89
I forgot what it is if you buy a grouping.

SoozeE512

I've been to some $10 drop-in hour-long yoga classes in/around the Boston area -- the price would've been $8 per class had I done the whole series. I've also gone to a couple of free yoga class offerings when the opportunities have popped up. But mostly I prefer to do yoga at home so I can go at my own pace.

MistressPi

My gym membership includes yoga classes -- not too many of them on schedule. Many more people are interested in cycle or zumba classes. I don't like taking yoga at the gym. The class faces the mirror, which means every time you do a forward fold or downward facing dog, your *kitten*-in-the-air is on display through the glass wall for everyone who is NOT taking yoga. It just feels weird to me.

The last yoga class I took at the gym was wholly unsatisfactory: first time I'd ever taken a yoga class anywhere with NO inversions of any kind. None. And the instructor told me that she was prohibited by management (!) from doing any hands-on correction. She wasn't allowed to touch the students. Bogus.

So I'm willing to spend money to go to a "real" yoga studio. One that has props like blocks and straps to help you if you need them, that offers classes in various styles, like Iyengar or ashtanga; classes that start out with a bit of meditation or breath work, includes inversions, hands-on correction, and maybe a little guided imagery to go with shavasana at the end. I prefer a class WITHOUT music (I find it distracting), and NO overheated rooms.