Yoga Studio Design

Practise Rooms

Having multiple practice rooms in your studio to teach yoga is essential if you expect to maximize profits. It really doesn’t matter how much space the rooms have. Some yoga studio owners have been known to divide one normal size room into four or five. What is important here is quantity. This gives students, and even some leading yoga magazines, the impression that you offer many different types of classes and yoga styles, which lends an air of sophistication to your studio. It doesn’t matter if you only teach one kind of yoga. Just make up different names for the same class that you have going on at the same time in the studio. Students will think this is incredibly trendy. For added effect, name the rooms after Hindu gods, but don’t get too carried away. Stick with the basics: Shiva, Shakti, Buddha, and Krishna. Students feel quite daring and groovy as they pronounce the names of these gods.

When designing the practice rooms, pay close attention to how many students you can cram into each one. Your first task is to purposely lay out the room so that each yoga mat will never be more then two inches from the other. You might even consider placing little Om stickers on the floor where the mat should be to discourage any renegade yogis from hogging extra spaces when setting up their mats. Be on the lookout for this behavior from older yogis, as they most likely will be ex-hippies who are still harboring anti-authoritarian and rebellious tendencies. They will try to abuse your rules and will especially hate feeling hemmed in. Gen X and Gen Y students, on the other hand, are usually passive and uncommitted to anything, so they will neither complain nor leave your studio for another that has more mat space.

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