Austin, TX
Austin Studio (HQ)
1120 E 5th Street, Suite 210, Austin, TX 78702(512) 555-0142
Daily 6:00 AM – 9:00 PM CT
Two heated rooms, props library, tea lounge, free parking.
Open in mapsAbout Lumen Yoga
We started because a good teacher should explain things
Lumen Yoga began in 2014 with one rule that still shapes everything: no student should feel unsafe, uninformed or unimportant in our classes. Everything else — the studio, the courses, the school — grew out of that.
Our story
A school, not a content factory
There was no shortage of yoga online by 2014. There was a shortage of yoga online that told you why. Which muscles are working. What the posture is actually for. What happens if you skip it. What to do when your body simply will not cooperate that day.
Our first course was built for a student named Marisol, a 47-year-old physical therapist in San Antonio who wanted to teach a class for the women's group at her church and could not find a program that explained anatomy without either waffling or terrifying her. We filmed eight hours of video for her. It became the Hatha Foundations course, and it is still the backbone of everything we teach.
Today Lumen Yoga is three studios, seven self-paced courses, a live certification program and a community of more than forty-eight thousand students spread across every US state. We are not the biggest yoga company in America. We are, we believe, the most careful one.
- Every instructor holds current certification and liability insurance
- Every posture is taught with at least three modifications
- Every course is reviewed by a second teacher before it ships
- 10% of teacher training cohorts are scholarship-funded
- Our accessibility statement is public, and we update it every year
Founded 2014
Austin, Denver & San Diego
By the numbers
Twelve years of steady, unglamorous growth
48,000+Students taught since 2014
200+Live hours in teacher training
3Studios across the USA
4.9/5Average student rating
What we hold to
Four commitments we do not negotiate
Safety is not optional
Every posture we teach has a modification for every body. Our instructors are certified, insured and trained to screen for injury before a student ever steps on a mat.
Depth over trends
We teach the tradition as it actually is — Sanskrit names, philosophy, history and anatomy — and skip the parts that are just packaging.
Belonging by default
No mirrors, no performance, no cold intros. Our rooms are built so a nervous first-timer can relax and a long-time practitioner can go deep.
Access for everyone
Sliding-scale memberships, need-based scholarships and free community clinics every month. Money should not decide whether you get to practise.
Milestones
How we got here
2014
One room in East Austin
Amara Reed teaches her first public class to eleven people in a rented church hall.
2016
First online course
Hatha Foundations is recorded in our living room and sold to 40 students across Texas.
2018
Denver studio opens
A converted loft in the Walnut Street arts district becomes our second home.
2020
Live online, for everyone
We go fully online in nine days. 9,000 students join us in the first month.
2022
Teacher training launches
Our first 200-hour cohort graduates 14 students, all of whom are still teaching.
2024
San Diego studio opens
Our third studio opens above Cass Street, ten minutes from Pacific Beach.
2026
48,000 students later
Three studios, seven courses, and the same rule: nobody in our rooms feels unsafe.
Our studios
Three rooms across the country
Every studio has its own schedule, prop library and free parking. Memberships work at all three.
(512) 555-0142
Denver, CO
Denver Studio
2730 Walnut Street, Denver, CO 80205(303) 555-0188
Mon–Sat 6:30 AM – 8:30 PM MT
Sunrise loft, natural light, ski-season shuttle to I-70 corridor.
Open in mapsSan Diego, CA
San Diego Studio
4645 Cass Street, San Diego, CA 92109(858) 555-0127
Daily 6:00 AM – 8:30 PM PT
Ocean-view practice deck, mats and towels always provided.
Open in mapsVisiting a studio for the first time? Your first in-studio class is always free. Arrive ten minutes early, wear something comfortable, and tell the front desk you are new — they will show you around, hand you a mat and walk you in.
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