Pricing on a Sliding Scale
We are committed to lowering the financial barrier to wellness by providing a sliding scale membership, drop ins and packages that do not expire for a whole year.
Pricing on a Sliding Scale
Whether a sliding scale approach is new to you, or if you’re familiar with the community-based concept, let’s dig a little deeper into it together. This way of being works if we all do our part.
Sliding Scale pricing was a concept introduced to us by The Coterie, a wellness studio in Charlotte, North Carolina who has done an incredible job communicating and rolling out this initiative to their community and kindly allowed us to repurpose it.
The theory is that everyone will pay a similar percentage of their income toward their membership, and the acknowledgement is that everyone’s income is extremely unique.
Understand that your payment is a part of a much larger ecosystem of access and offers so many people get the chance to do yoga in a way that they may not have been able to within a different studio structure. Take time and be honest with yourself while you choose your membership.
We trust that everyone is doing their part to uphold this sliding scale, and we’re eternally grateful for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A helpful way to look at this scale is through a lens used by Little Red Bird Botanicals. Their website states that for a sliding scale to be implemented effectively, everyone pays a similar percentage of their income for the same products or services.
If you’ve found yourself asking, “How is this fair if I pay more but receive the same?”, that is the answer.
Because in theory, you are all paying the same compared to what you can afford, and taking into account what everyone can afford sparks greater, more necessary conversations about accessibility.
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A blog post from 2015 (which tells us that this idea is not new) by Alexis J. Cunningfolk of Worts & Cunning Apothecary states that “for a sliding scale to work, it relies on the principles of truthfulness, respect for complexity, and accountability.
The Collective does not ask for income verification. We trust our students and clients to be honest. Community thrives when accountability is a central value, because that is where trust grows and depth work can be done.
“Teachers deserve to get paid and students deserve classes, which recognize the multiple realities of economic access and privilege that exist.”
The Collective trusts you to be honest, with both us and with yourself. This studio is built and named after the idea of community, and at the core of community, there is trust.
The balance of the blog post is incredibly insightful and offers amazing tools to understand where you fall within the sliding scale price structure.
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After reading through each price, know that this is not a forever decision. You are never stuck.
You are financially stable, for now. You have debt, for now. Your life ebbs and flows, and we understand that.
The Collective is simply honored that you are here, and willing and open to be flexible with you so that you can be here.
Cancellation Policy
The Collective holds limited spaces. For this reason, we request Student Members cancel at least 4 hours before your scheduled class. This allows us to offer the spot to another Student Member.
Please note, we don’t offer refunds. However, within the approved time window (4 hours before scheduled class time,) you may cancel your class booking and your credit will stay on your account for you to use another time.
If you fail to cancel or reschedule before the 4 hour notice, you’ll forfeit your class payment and will be charged an additional $5 No Show fee. In the event of a true emergency, we’re flexible with our cancellation policy if you registered for class through our website or app.
For ClassPassers, we are unable to provide this same flexibility due to their own policy and our limited technical capabilities with their platform nor can we mark you as attended if you did not in order for you to avoid ClassPass’s “no show” consequences.