In-Person Classes are Canceled

Following the recent instructions of the PM, we announce the closure of our in-person classes, workshops, and training courses with immediate effect.

Our core teaching faculty will continue broadcasting classes from the studio via Livestream. Emma's Mysore programme will move to the Zoom platform. 

All training courses and workshops will continue via Zoom. 

Our Reception team is going on furlough, please sit tight and await instructions with regard to any existing bookings into our workshops and trainings. Our intention is to run these events via the Zoom platform, where the teachers will be teaching solo from the studio. Our Manager, Kirsty, is on her way to Glencoe to be with her parents. Our landline number will soon redirect to her mobile and, in due course, you will be able to reach her for an actual chat. 

Rest assured that your existing bookings for workshop/trainings will continue via Zoom at the highest level of remote instruction. We have been informed by the Yoga Alliance governing bodies that the Zoom platform will suffice for accreditation purposes. For those that are keen to follow up with in-person instruction, we are working hard behind the scenes to schedule in-person sessions that will be available to book FREE OF CHARGE for all of our trainees and workshop participants. 

Our team is currently working on converting all existing monthly passes (non-Mysore)  to the £20 Unlimited Pass good for accessing all of our live-streaming classes, effective immediately. Mysore programme access is managed via Zoom, please refer to Emma's blog post.

Finally, it is our hope to be among those small businesses who are lucky enough to preserve some portion of the earnings for our employees and freelance staff. Our continuing mission as a not-for-profit yoga studio is to prioritise yoga practice for everyone in our community. Yoga practice is the heart of our lives, from our directors (me, Karen and my family), to our admin team (Kirsty and Elise and reception team part-timers), and of course amongst our beautiful yoga teachers whose work is all freelance. 

Supporting your continuing practice from home is our mission. The government has pledged to support us financially as we go out on a limb to continue service. So we are continuing to diversify our skills as we learn to bring the magic of yoga to you at home, and learn how to interact as fellow practitioners in this "new normal."

We ask for your patience, but even more importantly: your feedback. Help us improve. Convert your pass to online and then let us know what we can do better. This is a time of extreme uncertainty, but let us remember that this is also the time when we reached out to others. We made our health a priority. We became more creative. We collaborated, we accepted the change, and we helped others who are working out how to get us reconnected in the spirit of transformation.

With love, and in service,

Karen and all of us at Meadowlark Yoga