Yin and sound — with monochord
Three hours on a Saturday afternoon, six shapes, sound in between. Kai Brenner brings his monochord. 16 spots, $72, $64 for members. No experience needed; people do fall asleep, and that is expressly allowed.
Linden House Yogalindenhouseyoga.com
Workshops
When two hours is more than one.
Four to six workshops a quarter, usually on Saturdays. Always on one subject there is no room for in a regular class.
Coming up
Pranayama foundations, four evenings
Thursdays 8:00 to 9:15 p.m. with Sarah El-Amin. Ujjayi, nadi shodhana, kapalabhati — built up slowly, with an explanation of what each one does. $118 for all four evenings, not sold separately. Not suitable with untreated high blood pressure.
Back care: new series from January
Ten sessions, Fridays 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. with Miriam Vogt. $195, itemized receipt for HSA and FSA claims. Twelve spots, sign-up opens December 1 — the fall series filled in four days.
Weekend in the Champlain Valley, February 21 to 22
Two days at a farmhouse near Charlotte: six sessions, vegetarian meals included, shared rooms. $325 per person, single rooms for a surcharge. Coming by bike is possible — we move the luggage.
How signing up works
Ask for a spot
Through the form or at the desk. You get an answer within two business days — including when the workshop is already full.
Confirmation and invoice
The confirmation comes with an invoice by email. Your spot is held from the confirmation, not from the payment.
Pay up to two weeks before
By transfer or in person. Booking later means paying at sign-up. Paying the weekend in installments is possible — just ask.
Canceling
Free up to 14 days before. After that we keep 50 percent, unless someone from the waiting list takes the spot — then you get everything back. With a doctor’s note, always everything.
Why there is no teacher training here
We are often asked whether we run a teacher training. We do not, deliberately: a 200-hour training ties up most of the schedule for a year and turns a studio into a school. Doing both means one of them suffers.
If that is your path, you will get an honest assessment from us and two recommendations in New England — and, if you want it, the chance to observe classes here.
Ask for a workshop spot
Mention whether you are a member — then we can work out the reduced price right away.
The project frame
How Awelior would approach this project
Linden House Yoga is invented — the way it is built is not. None of this is work delivered for a client. It is the shape we would give such a project — with the same depth, but without a client who would have to answer for it.
Where it starts
Linden House Yoga has two rooms off a back courtyard in the Old North End of Burlington, five teachers and three ways to practice: drop-in classes you join without booking, eight-week courses, and a back-care series for people with real limitations. Online there was a profile on a social network and a schedule as a PDF that had last been right in spring. The most common question at the desk was therefore not about yoga but about the schedule — and the second most common was whether a beginner is allowed into a drop-in class at all.
Decisions
The schedule is the second page, not the second to last
It sits directly behind the home page and is reachable from every button on it. Somebody looking for a studio is looking for a time that fits around work. Everything else is decided after that.
Every price is on the page, including the awkward ones
Single class, ten-class pass, monthly rate, course series — each with what it includes. A studio that names prices only on request loses exactly the people who are unsure whether this is for them.
The back-care series promises nothing
It describes what happens in the session, who teaches it, and that every pose comes with variations. What it does not do is claim an effect. Anyone in pain asks somebody who can look at them first — and the page says so.
The way into the courtyard is on the studio page
The entrance is at the back and cannot be seen from the street. Directions in words, not just a map crop: somebody arriving for the first time who spends five minutes searching walks late into a class that starts in silence.
Deliberately left outNo online payment and no customer account on the site. Passes and rates run through the desk and the member app; a second way to buy on the website would mean keeping the same pass balance in two places. No star ratings either: a studio with four teachers and a handful of regulars cannot produce a meaningful number from them, only one that looks like it.
What is in it
- Pages
- 5
- Content blocks
- 26
- Languages
- 4
Five pages covering the schedule, prices, teachers, workshops and how to find the place, in every language of the site. Navigation, switches and disclosures work; forms and booking buttons are laid out and do nothing.
How it would go on
One source for the schedule
The schedule on the website and the one in the app have to come from the same table. Two maintained schedules are worse than one, because nobody knows which is right.
Show who is covering
People fall ill and get covered — and for practitioners that matters, because many come for a particular teacher. It needs a route the desk can operate in two minutes.
Workshops with sign-up
A workshop is not a class: limited places, a deposit, often full. That is the next sensible build — and the first one that moves money.
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