When Sara first encountered Kaiut Yoga, she had been practicing yoga for a number of years, but had not found a yoga community in Boulder in which she felt fully safe and comfortable.  After just one Kaiut Yoga class, she knew she had found her yoga home.

I immediately fell in love; in the first class it was a yes.

She continued following that yes, taking more classes, and eventually enrolling in Francisco Kaiut’s teacher training, not with any intention of teaching, but simply to deepen her understanding of the method.  She began learning about all the many ways in which Kaiut Yoga was different from other approaches to yoga, in particular the ways in which it supported a kind, non-judgmental attitude:

I hadn’t realized that I had spent years judging myself in relation to my yoga teachers and to other unspoken standards/expectations in the yoga world.

I would compare myself to the teacher who was modeling a pose and was always giving me the message that this is the full expression of the pose…That self-judgment affected my body image, the way I was perceiving my aging process, my weight, my physical abilities, how I was supposed to look as a woman, my clothing… I didn’t realize how much comparing myself to the teacher was impacting me.

When I took Kaiut Yoga classes, the instructors were rarely modeling shapes with their own bodies. There was every type of body in the room:   deeply practiced yogis, athletes, different body sizes, different ages, and that is the kind of community I want to be in and that is the kind of world I want to live in. [Read more…] about Meet Our Teacher – Sara Truitt

For Our New Students:

If you are new to Barn Yoga, we hope you will access our First Class Free pass to attend your first class, but we also know that after just one class it might be difficult to know which type of pass or membership to purchase next.  That’s why we offer a 14 Day Trial Unlimited Membership for new students at an introductory rate of  $40.  With a trial membership you can come to class in person or online as often as you like for 14 days before deciding on your next pass or membership.

For Our Continuing Students:

We offer a monthly membership at two different membership levels, the Limited Monthly Membership (12 classes per month) and the Unlimited Monthly Membership (unlimited classes per month).  Memberships offer the advantage of renewing automatically every month and come with added perks including member discounts on our workshops and special events as well as access to  recorded classes.  We also offer 1, 5, 10 and 20 class passes.

With all of these options, you may be wondering which option might work best for you.  In order to help you decide, we have created the chart below which indicates the cost per class based on frequency of attendance and type of pass/membership.

As you can see from the chart, the Limited Monthly Membership is the best value for students attending class 2-3 times per week.

The Unlimited Monthly Membership is the best value for students attending class 4 or more times per week.

Note that members at both membership levels also have access to some of our classes by recording to use when they are unable to come to class in person or online, as well as discounts on our workshops and other special events.  This adds considerable further value to memberships.

For further information about the terms of our memberships and class passes, please visit our Purchase a Class Pass/Membership page and click on the pass/membership you are interested in.

It is our sincere desire for you to be able to continue in your yoga practice without our fees creating a barrier to your class attendance. If you would like information about our sliding scale pricing or have any other quesions, please contact us at barnyogaboulder@gmail.com.

It is nothing but wintry white outside, but the crocuses have bloomed and are lying in wait for the snow to melt.  No longer unequivocally winter but not yet fully spring, this in-between-the-seasons time here in Colorado is one in which it can be hard to find our bearings.  We are drawn by glorious shirtsleeves days into the hopefulness of spring only to be abruptly pulled back by a weather advisory storm into the weightiness of winter.

This year the disorientation is not just due to the vagaries of weather.  Our long awaited emergence from the ravages of the pandemic appears to be looming, coinciding with the advent of spring, adding to the already heady euphoria of anticipating that season, even as news of continued COVID deaths, emerging viral variants, economic disparities and uncertainty about when or if life will ever return to “normal”, draw us back into wintry solemnity.

In the midst of these uncertainties, we come to our yoga mats.  Bringing our kind, focused attention, we listen to our bodies as they communicate in the language of the body, sensation.  We respond with sincerity of effort, giving to our embodied selves that which we need.  We come into balance.  We find our bearings…