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The Architecture of Generosity

A companion to The Digital Caste People talk about yoga economics as if the central question is price. Class rates. Membership tiers. What a teacher should earn. Price matters — but it isn’t the variable that governs everything else. Overhead is. Overhead determines what prices are even possible. And once prices are fixed, the culture of a space starts to bend around them. I learned this slowly. Like most teachers, I spent years looking for the price that felt fair — one that worked for the student waking up at 5am on a teacher’s salary and also for the one who’d just come from the office. Same discipline. Different bank accounts. Eventually it became clear: this wasn’t a pricing problem at all. In many yoga…