Kula Yoga offers three forms of payment:

* Basic Drop-In fee

* Kula Sliding Scale fee

* Peace Project Member fee

  Each fee is detailed below.  We encourage you to read all about these fees and we 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

Kula Yoga is a model and living laboratory of mindfulness which recognizes the original intent of practicing Yoga in community.  This intention is based on community members acting on their significance towards the goal of building relationship, self realization, and sustainability. We define community as an inclusive, like-minded group which supports the leadership of the teacher, the integrity of the ancient teachings, and the healing potential and power of such a group. This model is in contrast to any attempt to commodify, package or dilute the essence and quality of Yoga in the broadest possible context. 

The Kula Sliding Scale Fee

The Kula Sliding Scale is for anyone who has made some degree of commitment to their practice at the Kula (one such commitment might be a willingness to pay for a series of classes up front).  Kula Sliding Scale bases the fees on one's actual income. .  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.

This sliding scale may bring up reaction and we welcome that. 

Kula Yoga understands the practice of inquiry and questioning as the corner-stone instruction for ending suffering. Inquiry is a practice that questions the self as a set of conditioned beliefs, values and personality and provides a present time direct experience of one's unqualified true nature. We therefore attempt to translate this practice of questioning into all areas of our lives, including one's beliefs regarding income and worth.

Kula Sliding Scale Calculations

The following scale is used to calculate each individual's 'Base Fee Rate'.  This Base rate is then 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, our 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 more 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. 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 and promoting the Kula community.  This is a practice to not only insure the health and well-being of the Kula community but to illustrate, model and reveal how significant the leadership role is to any body of work or project.

In addition, some members pay a self directed monthly financial contribution to the Kula which may include 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 Leadership Series. 

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