Kula Yoga offers three forms of payment, a Basic Drop-In fee, a Kula Sliding Scale fee, and a Peace Project Member fee.  Each fee is detailed below.  We encourage you to read all about these fees and welcome your questions and feedback about this approach.  

Basic Drop-In Fee

The Drop-In fee is designed for new students checking out the Kula.  This fee is based on an hourly rate of $10 per hour, so our typical class is $15 (1.5 hours x $10 per hour).  Monthly Workshops are 2 hrs = $20/workshop

Unlike the Kula Sliding Scale, this fee structure turns our yoga practice into a commodity.  Our intention is not to offer a 'product' or 'service', but to share our experience with our community.  We are here to practice yoga, so we collect fees to enable our practice.  Our fees provide our practice space and sustain our teachers. 

If this fee is a hardship or you'd like to contribute more, please see option the options below. 

The Kula Sliding Scale Fee

The Kula Sliding Scale is for all community members who regularly attend Kula classes and events.  The Kula Sliding Scale bases your fee on your social class and financial resources.  The overall intention of using a sliding scale is to directly address the class society in which we live in. Paying according to one's available resources creates a more equitable, diverse and sustainable community we all benefit from. An inevitable consequence to this process is an increase in one's awareness of their inherent significance to the community from which one is able to affect real change on a grass roots level.

For most people, the sliding scale will bring up strong reactions of 'equity'.  "How can the same class be offered different people at different prices based on financial resources?" This reation is based on our beliefs of capitalism and consumerism.  The sliding scale adds another element of consideration, we factor in one's ability to pay for the class. 

Kula Yoga understands the practice of inquiry and questioning as the corner-stone instruction for ending suffering and directly experiencing and recognizing one's unqualified true nature. We therefore attempt to translate this practice of questioning into all areas of our lives.

Kula Sliding Scale Calculations

Anyone and everyone is invited to use this scale!  We use the following scale to calculate each individual's Base Fee Rate.  This Base Fee Rate is them applied to the hours of each activity. 

Determine your fee based on the following sliding scale:

1. Determine your household income: 
   Total your annual pre-tax income from all sources.  If you share assets and liabilities with another adult, combine your assets.
2. Adjust for your household partner:
   If there are two adults sharing assets and liabilities, take 50% of the total as your income. (divide the total household income by 2 to get this amount)
3. Find your fee: 
   Find your household income and the corresponding fee on the table listed below.
4. Adjust the base fee for young people and investments:
   
   • Children
     Once you have found the base fee, deduct $3 for each young person in your household. 
   • Investments
     For each $10,000 in investments (longer term items, retirement accounts, and inherited money) and/or $20,000 in savings (based on your earnings, more or less disposable),  add $5.  
   • Adjust Once Per Household
     Make these adjustments for only the first person from the household attending the class.  Others from the same household should pay the base fee for the income determined in step 1 or step 2 above.
5. Minimum Base Rate Fee:
   Regardless of your calculations above, your minimum Base Rate Fee will be $4.
6. Suggested Maximum Base Rate Fee:
   The suggested maximum Base Rate Fee is $32/hr.  You can however elect to pay the full calculated Base Rate Fee if you wish. 

Margaret Meade said:

"........good becomes possible when a small group of thoughtful citizens commit themselves to it - this is the only thing that ever really does add up to change......it's always a workable economy."

The scale is intended to be a map, inviting each of us to take inventory of our financial resources to then begin to question our beliefs; not necessarily to let any belief go, but to be willing to.

The sliding scale practice, like all other spiritual practices, is a process that occurs from the realm of the heart rather than the confines of the mind's conditioning. Therefore we use Patanjali's body-based teaching in Sutra II.46 to help inform the process:

Sthira Sukham Asanam:

Steadiness and Ease in a pose (experience)......

rather than straining or collapsing in a pose (experience)....

Kula Peace Project Member Fee

This membership includes active Kula patrons who function as a “community member”.  Members participate in Kula Yoga’s offerings for their own reemergence along with devoting their time and/or expertise to a particular segment of running the Kula community.  This is a practice to not only insure the health and well-being of the Kula community but to illustrate and reveal how significant leadership is to any body of work.

In addition, some members pay a self directed monthly financial contribution to the Kula which includes unlimited weekly classes, individual monthly session(s) with Katherine, and monthly Kula offerings such as the the Yoga Nidra Practice, the Sutra Study Group and the Kula Connection Series. 

This fee includes more than your monthly contribution, Peace Project Members actively donate their time and skills to support the Kula community.