One person recounted an incident when several instructors had showed up to volunteer to help repaint the interior of the studio in Berkeley. “Getting scheduled for less or no classes was a huge threat to survival.”
#Power to the people yoga for free#
“The willingness to do work for free is groomed to be seen as loyalty and might be rewarded with receiving more teaching time or other forms of favorability,” continued the submission. Several of the unnamed paid instructors reported that they received an hourly wage of $17.50, which didn’t add up to much when they were working only a few hours a week. “Stepping out of line or becoming unfavorable might mean receiving less classes to teach, which as a struggling teacher might mean the difference between eating or not,” read one anonymous testimonial. Many of these submissions described the aforementioned culture of systemic harassment against employees, as well as the obstacles that prevented them from speaking up for themselves for so long.
#yttp #yogatothepeople #yttpshadowwork #allsurvivorsriseĪ post shared by YttP Shadow Work on at 12:42pm PDT All posts are strictly in the words of survivors. All names will be kept confidential, and nothing will be posted without your consent. We are opening up this space for people to come and talk about their experiences in which they witnessed or were subjected to a culture of sexism, racism, and misogyny that runs from the head of the company.
Classes were offered at a suggested donation rate of $12, with mat rentals available for $2 - a bargain compared with most studios in San Francisco, some of which require participants to shell out hundreds of dollars for a monthly membership.īut late last week, Yoga to the People closed all of its locations for good as hundreds of testimonials poured in to YttPShadowWork, an anonymous Instagram account that serves as a space for people to report accusations of harassment and abuse at multiple studio locations nationwide.ĭisclaimer: opperators of this page are not affliated with Yoga to the People. Others alleged experiences of emotional manipulation, racial discrimination and varying levels of sexual misconduct and abuse that occurred during their time teaching or attending classes at Yoga to the People, a nationwide chain of yoga studios with locations in San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, New York City and Tempe, Ariz.įounded by Greg Gumucio in 2006, the studios were popular for their overarching principles of accessibility and inclusivity for teachers and students at all experience levels, regardless of their ability to pay. The stories become increasingly disturbing from there. Others still described the grueling training required to become an instructor in the first place: teaching several classes without pay for weeks, as well as the expectation to stay at the studio long after their shift was over to perform free tasks that fell outside of their job responsibility in order to " prove their loyalty" to management.
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