Gotta love hippies (re: yoga)

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On a date the night before last we stopped by a local pizzeria to grab a slice. They’ve got a community bulletin board in there and I was glancing at the various fliers while waiting for the pizza.

And I noticed a flier for Yoga Energy Studios: Pay What You Can Yoga Classes. It states: “There is no set fee- students are free to donate as they are able. You can attend even if you can’t always donate.”

Awesome! I’ve never taken a yoga class because I can’t afford it, but if I can only pay $5 or $10 if that’s all my budget will allow, I’m definitely there. Going to check out the schedule now.

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So … everyone who participates in yoga is a hippie? Or only hippies have yoga studios? Or only hippies would offer yoga instruction on a sliding scale? Just trying to suss out the exact nature of your stereotyping here.

That’s a pretty snarky headline for an opportunity you actually seem interested in.

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What’s snarky about it? I think she’s saying she genuinely likes hippies in this case.

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It’s pretty clear to me that “pay what you can” is a hippie thing.

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A lot of yoga studios have at least one class a week that’s Seva (service) or Karma Yoga, where it’s either “pay what you can,” or the money goes to a local charity. You might want to check out the Internet to see if there are other studios that do this, so you can get the chance to check out a wide variety of studios and styles.

So, the classes are part of the yogic path - does that make them hippie? :slight_smile:

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Er, what? How is that only hippie? I’ve seen plenty of places that offer pay-as-you-can, and we have very few hippies here.

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They might not literally be hippies (how many actual hippies still exist, anyway?), but it seems they’ve internalized some hippie values (or at least one).

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People, people, let’s not forget what’s important here…

Pics or it didn’t happen.

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There was a place it town here that opened about two years ago with that same business model but they went to standard pricing after about six months.

I don’t think that it’s much of a stretch to say that there are a lot of neo-hippie types affiliated with yoga. I practice Bikram which is about the most non-hippie yoga around but we still have a few in every class.

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Well I certainly wasn’t trying to be snarky at all, sorry if came across that way. I love yoga and have been practicing it myself for years, with the aid of yoga TV shows and books. I just thought the “pay what you can” aspect seemed hippie-esque.

From their website:

I stand by my assertion.

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I’ve met a bunch over the last year or so.