GrassRoots Yoga (GRY)

We are a yoga club. All of the original members were part of the community at the University of Colorado. However, the club itself, does not have any connection to the University.

We have 1 class for our fall session.

Registration for the fall class.

History / Mission

GrassRoots Yoga (GRY) is a member-run club for people who want to share the practice of yoga on a regular basis. Through its membership, GRY provides yoga classes for its members on a space-available basis.

GRY was started in direct response to the termination of the University of Colorado Wellness Program and the yoga classes it offered. All of the original members are employees of the University. Although the Wellness Program offered yoga with assistance from CU-Boulder's Recreation Center, GRY does not have any official connection to the University of Colorado.

The purpose of a yoga club is to encourage members to continue yoga practice in a supportive environment among fellow yoga enthusiasts. Without such a club, as many of us have seen, we too easily lose the motivation to sustain yoga practice by ourselves or in community classes. As a result, we do not benefit as much as we wish. GRY gives us the opportunity to continue gaining knowledge and appreciation of yoga and enjoying the health benefits yoga provides. Incentive/commitment/discipline/energy are sometimes hard to understand fully, but we feel that participating in the club helps us with all of these. We also feel that 10 students make a class viable; Ten (or more) students help each of us maintain our incentive, commitment, discipline, and energy.

To increase the sense of worth of the program, as well as members' self-commitment, we decided to make a small donation to the club. However, since the club cannot be for-profit, GRY in turn gifts the money to members who help us all with yoga. We actually consider this a donation to ourselves. GRY members can volunteer to be our Instructors. Teaching members lead classes and share their insight into yoga with the rest of us. For this, the club gives the day's donations to our instructor.

Semesters are scheduled in the range of 10-15 classes each. Since we want to know that the program will endure the whole semester, we make the semester's donations in advance of the first class. The donations are an incentive for each of us to maintain our commitment to organized, regularly scheduled yoga practice.

A certain element of trust is essential in a club like this. We cannot hire/pay teachers. Therefore, we cannot contract with them for services. The trust is in each other as we give our donations to the club facilitator who gifts them to our instructors.

This mission expresses the goals and philosophy of the GrassRoots Yoga membership. Any who joins, maintains membership or participates in classes should understand and support this mission.