What Is Community Gift?

It’s a new and ancient way of being with each other. 

Yoga is a sacred practice, a 5,000 year old tradition rooted deeply in India. It is a path and process, a way of life one chooses to study under a teacher with whom you have a deep connection. Cultural appropriation in the US has taken yoga and made it into something it’s not — an aerobic exercise class that flexible, thin-bodied people do at the gym. 

Like many things in the US, yoga has become a commodity --something easily bought and sold for money. Community Gift is an attempt to work against this. 

Yoga is sacred. If we put any dollar amount on a class, we end up devaluing yoga. At the same time, teachers aren’t chasing paper, but we do need some bread!

Community Gift says:

• Teachers can offer students freely as gift their knowledge of the yogic traditions. 
• Students can offer freely as gift whatever feels right to them, in return. (Be creative! Ask what the teacher needs)

Offer what feels right to you.

Suggested Sliding Scale: $5-$18
But PLEASE, offer WHATEVER feels right to you. 

Thank you for being with us. 

Gratitude.