Brooklyn Yoga Collective

Brooklyn Yoga Collective is a diverse group of yoga practitioners and educators with unique backgrounds and stylistic approaches to yoga. Our collective focus includes a wide variety of yoga styles, traditions, and practices. While the classes and teaching styles may vary considerably, BYC is tied together by our dedication to sharing the teachings... and benefits of yoga in a way that is accessible to everyone. We encourage students to explore all of our classes to find which ones work best for them. All levels & bodies are welcome. BYC values community, both on and off the mat. BYC is part of LaunchPad, a Brooklyn based non-profit organization focused on community building and the arts, and BYC has an active hand in helping shape our local neighborhood. Our support of community is also focused inward to help foster a cohesive relationship between our studio instructors and our studio business, BYC employs a collective payment model. BYC allocates a majority percentage of our studio revenue toward our instructors pay, and each instructor is paid an equal amount per class, based on the shared revenue system. In most other yoga studios instructors are compensated based on class size or popularity, or paid a flat rate per class. In comparison, we believe the BYC model serves to: - eliminate competition amongst instructors who might otherwise vie for student attention and/or the most desirable class times. - encourages instructors to teach classes based on the value to the students, even if those classes are not "popular" or do not have high monetary earning potential (i.e. specialized classes). - maintains a fair relationship between the success of the studio and the reward to the instructors as workers--as the studio grows, so too does instructor compensation.Read More