• Dharma Yoga Brooklyn

  82 Sixth Ave., nr. St. Marks Ave., second fl., Park Slope; 718-395-7632

  Video Made in Partnership With NYC Media

  In a city where Vinyasa-induced calm is often offset by $20-a-class rates, instructors Lily Cushman and Jeremy Frindel felt moved to do something different. The pair turned a former hair salon into a candlelit yoga haven with stained-glass bay windows, just five instructors (Cushman herself teaches fifteen sessions a week), and�most impressively�a true pay-as-you-wish policy. There’s no check-in desk or awkward badgering; rather, participants drop anywhere from $5 to $20 into the small metal box near the doorway, unprompted. As Cushman put it, �You’re not just coming to tone a six-pack or get your money’s worth out of an overpriced unlimited card.� Classes max out at 25 attendees and most last 90 minutes, and the population is as democratic as the pay system, from toned twentysomethings to graying kombucha swillers.

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