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Community
in action.

When you practise at Phoenix, you help sustain a community-owned studio that gives Live Karma Yoga a home and practical support. LKY provides free and contribution-based yoga in places where cost or circumstance can shut people out.

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Community ownership

Owned by the people who practise here.

Phoenix is owned by its members rather than a single proprietor or investor group. Decisions stay close to the people who practise and teach here, and Phoenix commits 25% of any surplus to the studio and local initiatives.

Member-owned

The studio is owned by its members, not a single proprietor or investor group.

25% surplus commitment

Phoenix commits 25% of any surplus to the studio and local initiatives.

Open to everyone

We try to keep classes open to people of different ages and budgets through reduced-price offers, community classes and our sliding-scale options.

Community in action

What showing up for each other looks like.

Our fundraisers bring people together to practise and raise money. This film shows one of those days: people moving, contributing and spending time together.

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A Phoenix Yoga community fundraiser. Select play when you are ready.

Community partnership

Phoenix is home to Live Karma Yoga.

This is one of the things we’re most proud of — and something that makes Phoenix genuinely different from most yoga studios.

Community Interest Company

Live Karma Yoga — Community over Competition.

Live Karma Yoga is a community interest company that runs free and contribution-based classes in places where cost or circumstance can limit access. Its work includes prisons, hospitals, schools, safehouses, hostels and shelters.

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Teachers on the LKY team — many also part of the Phoenix teaching family

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Phoenix teachers who also teach with or for Live Karma Yoga

Free

or contribution-based — LKY’s community classes are open to all

Ray

Phoenix’s co-Founder is himself a treasured member of the LKY teaching team

LKY is run by Zara, Eva and Sarah — Zara is also a Phoenix teacher. You’ll see lots of LKY faces at Phoenix day-to-day.

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What this means for you.

Your booking supports an independent, community-owned studio. It also helps Phoenix provide a home, people and practical backing for work that makes yoga available beyond its usual audience.

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Where the practice reaches

Yoga for everybody — literally.

LKY’s belief is simple: yoga and wellness practices should be accessible to EVERYbody. Outside of their daily community classes, they run programmes in some of the places that need it most.

Phoenix Yoga representatives at a local community event

Phoenix Yoga community members raising their hands together

Prisons

Yoga programmes inside prisons, working with people who rarely have access to mainstream wellness.

Hospitals

Bringing practice to patients and staff in hospital settings where stress and physical strain are constant.

Schools

Working with children and young people to build body awareness, emotional regulation and community.

Safehouses & hostels

Offering yoga to people living in temporary and supported accommodation.

Homeless shelters

Meeting people where they are — bringing practice to those with the fewest resources.

Specialist groups

Tailored sessions for specific groups including female yoga, SEN and elderly communities.

“There is no greater power for change than a Community discovering what it cares about.”

— M. Wheatley | A value Live Karma Yoga lives by

LKY also collaborates widely across the community — their partners include:

Paddington Now Chelsea Physic Garden Lululemon Carneys Community Enable Charities Friends of the NHS

If you know someone who could benefit from what LKY does — or would like to be involved — get in touch directly at info@livekarmayoga.com or follow @livekarmayoga on Instagram.

Questions

Common questions

What does it mean that Phoenix Yoga is community-owned?⌄

Phoenix Yoga is owned by its members rather than a single proprietor or investor. This means decisions are made with the community’s interests at heart, not a bottom line. Surplus is reinvested into the studio and the people who use it.

What is Live Karma Yoga and what is its connection to Phoenix?⌄

Live Karma Yoga (LKY) is a Community Interest Company that runs free and contribution-based yoga classes in spaces and communities that benefit from access to wellness. Phoenix is LKY’s home studio. Ray, Phoenix’s co-Founder, is himself a member of the LKY teaching team, and around 20 Phoenix teachers also teach for LKY. Zara, one of our teachers, co-runs LKY alongside Eva and Sarah.

Does Phoenix offer free or low-cost classes?⌄

Through our partnership with Live Karma Yoga, free and contribution-based classes are available. LKY runs community classes open to all. Check livekarmayoga.com or follow @livekarmayoga for upcoming sessions.

How can I get involved?⌄

Come to a class and join the community. You can also follow Live Karma Yoga on Instagram, attend one of their community classes or fundraising workshops at Phoenix, or reach out directly at info@livekarmayoga.com if you have a specific idea for collaboration.

From the journal

The stories behind the community.

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Community

The teacher who nagged me into teaching.

The story of how Live Karma Yoga found a home at Phoenix — and how Zara, who taught Ray in his very first yoga class, eventually got him in front of a class of his own.

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