FREE Yoga All Over the East Bay
It is almost December and soon enough some of your outdoor exercise and fitness regimes will be compromised by rain and cold. Yoga can be a calming indoor alternative (even though the sun salutations will make a mockery of the dreary weather that forced you inside). But yoga also tends to be expensive as hell. Fortunately for us broke-ass yogis, many yoga studios now offer FREE, donation-based, or sliding scale community classes. Below you can find information about all the studios offering affordable yoga classes for the masses.
Yoga to the People
64 Shattuck Sq. btwn Addison and University
ALL classes are donation-based ($10 suggested but no one keeping track and no one is turned away for lack of funds)
Weekdays @ 10am, 12pm, 4:30pm, 6pm, 7:30pm)
Saturdays @ 10am, 12pm, 5pm
Sundays @ 12pm, 5pm, 7pm (candle-lit!)
*they have a San Francisco studio too
Yoga Mandala (my favorite and former place of work)
2807 Telegraph Ave. btwn Oregon and Stuart
Saturdays @ 7am: FREE Community Meditation
Saturdays @ 8am: FREE Community Group Practice
Weekdays @ 7am: FREE Community Prostrations
Yoga Kula
1700 Shattuck Ave. @ Virginia St. (2nd floor)
Community Classes (sliding scale $8-16):
Tuesdays and Thursdays @ 4-5pm
Sundays @ 6-7:30pm
*they have a San Francisco studio too
Adeline Yoga
3320 Adeline St. btwn Alcatraz and 63rd
Community Class ($5-$15 sliding scale):
Fridays @ 9am
Kundalini Yoga @ UC Berkeley
331 Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley Campus
Tuesdays @ 5:30pm ($5-$11 suggested donation, arrive 10mins early)
Email karynkrause@berkeley.edu to get on the mailing list
Berkeley lululemon
2956 College Ave. @ Ashby
Occasional FREE community classes (check calendar)
Upcoming: Black Friday Yoga:
Friday November 27th @ 8:30am (FREE)
RSVP to berkeley-store@lululemon.com
*there are more FREE classes at the San Francisco (Union Square and Marina) and Walnut Creek locations