The Yoga Factory

The Yoga Factory offers four memberships: bronze individual ($49 each month for four classes a month), silver individual ($99 each month for unlimited yoga), gold family ($179 per month with unlimited yoga for up to four family members) and platinum ($999 for a full year of unlimited yoga). The studio also offers $5 community classes, which are taught by instructors working their way onto the studio’s schedule.

All levels of classes tend to move quickly with little instruction because that is the studio’s style, Shepherd said.

“Teachers are walking and touching and seeing,” she said. “They’re not up front demonstrating.”

Each class with more than 10 students has an assistant that acts as the teacher’s hands. Assistants quickly assess what is happening in a body, make sure the student is safe and then adjust a pose or help the student achieve a deeper stretch, Shepherd said. Not all studios have assistants. This is what makes the studio different, Shepherd said.

“You know when you show up [for a class that] you’re going to sweat, you’re going to laugh, you’re going to work harder than you thought you could and you’re going to feel good,” she said.