Yoga East, Inc.

For 55 years, Yoga East has been a place where people in Greater Louisville can come to practice, learn, heal, and find community.

Founded in 1971 by Maja Trigg (1927-2016), Yoga East began with a simple but enduring vision: to make the benefits of yoga available to everyone, regardless of financial
circumstances.

That commitment remains at the heart of everything we do.

Today, Yoga East is a nonprofit community yoga school offering traditional yoga taught by experienced, highly-trained teachers. We welcome beginners and longtime practitioners, younger and older students, and people with different abilities, needs, and financial circumstances.

We believe that the benefits of yoga - greater strength and mobility, steadiness of mind, connection, and a deeper sense of well-being- should not be available only to those who can afford them. 

Your Give for Good Donation makes that possible.

Your gift helps Yoga East:

Keep classes affordable and accessible to our community.
Offer free, donation-based, and reduced-cost classes to students who otherwise might not be able to participate
Support experienced teachers and high-quality yoga instruction
Maintain a welcoming physical space for practice and community
Provide technology for live and recorded online classes, making yoga available to students who cannot always attend in person
Continue developing programs for older adults, beginners, and students with different physical abilities and needs.
This year, for example, we have offered $10 Chair Yoga classes as well as donation-based classes so that cost does not have to be a barrier to practice.
But Yoga East is more than a schedule of classes.
For generations of Louisville students, it has been a place to return to during times of change, difficulty, growth, and discovery. Students have become teachers.
Teachers have inspired new generations of practitioners. Friendships and communities have formed here. What began as one person's vision in 1971 has created ripples throughout Louisville for more than half a century.

Whether you have practiced with us for decades, attended one class, studied with one of our teachers, practiced with us online, or simply believe that Louisville benefits from having a nonprofit community yoga school, we invite you to be a part of Yoga East's future.

Every gift matters. Every gift helps keep our doors-and our practice- open.

Please consider making a gift to Yoga East during out Give for Good Louisville. 

Thank you for helping sustain 55 years of yoga, teaching, and community in Louisville- and help us carry that tradition forward.

Who We Are

Yoga East was founded in 1971 and incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 1978. We are one of the oldest established yoga organizations in the United States.

Our mission is to make the benefits of traditional yoga available to as many people as possible throughout the Greater Louisville area. We offer affordable classes taught by dedicated, highly trained teachers who maintain rigorous standards of teaching and personal practice through ongoing study in Kentucky, elsewhere in the United States, and internationally, including study with traditional yoga schools and teachers in India.

Yoga East also provides 200-, 300-, and 500-hour teacher training programs registered with Yoga Alliance. We offer scholarships to qualified students for teacher training at Yoga East and, when possible, for advanced study in India.

For more than five decades, Yoga East has remained committed to preserving the depth and integrity of traditional yoga while making its benefits accessible to the wider community.