Stay for the Entire Class
If you do need to leave early for any reason, please inform the teacher before class begins. However, we do recommend planning to stay for the entirety of the class to receive the most benefit from your practice and to pay respect to to the practice itself, your commitment to your own practice, to the teacher and to your fellow students.

Cell Phones & Devices
Please do not use your cell phone during class to talk, text, etc.. We encourage you to silence your phone, rather than set to vibrate mode, or even turn it off entirely. That said, if you need to silence (no vibrate) your phone and leave it near your mat because you need to be ‘on call’ for whatever reason, we understand. Please check with the instructor first, before doing that, to let her/him know of your circumstance.

For our Workshops & Trainings, if you would like to take notes, please stick with pen and paper. We have found that it causes too much of a distraction both to the teacher and to the other students to use devices such as phones, tablets, computers for note taking. (It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly why it is more distracting than paper, perhaps because these devices are portals into the wide world web, regardless, thank you for honoring this request).

Scents and Smells
Practice good hygiene, please come to class clean. Also, because of other students’ allergies and/or sensitivities, we ask that you refrain from using any sort of scent including: lotions, essential oils, etc. before coming to class.

Do Not Chew Gum During Class

Attire
Be sure that your clothes actually clothe you. Shorts need to be long enough to cover ‘private parts’ no matter what the asana. It is appreciated when waist bands are high enough to keep the buttock region under wraps, even when in full forward bends. Holes located in unfortunate places need to be mended.

The Reception Area is a Quiet Zone
Use a soft voice while in the reception area, the sound does carry into the studios.

Avoid Drinking Water During Class
If you need to drink water during class, for any reason, by all means, please do so. As your practice becomes more advanced, more refined, water consumption during class will impede the benefits of the practice and, hence, your progress. Drinking water, or anything else, during class, falsely affects your temperature, gives the body something more to digest (really, the practice is enough), and serves as a distraction. Please do drink water after class!

Studio Mats and Props
You are welcome to use the mats and props in the studio. Please put them away ready for the next person to use; we provide mat cleaner and towels in each studio to wipe down the mats after use. Please put props away in an orderly way, for example laying blankets flat so that they stack easily. If you borrow a drinking glass, please clean and hang it to dry when you’re finished.