Drop-in class
Booked one at a time, no commitment to a series. All levels in one room: teachers show a quieter and a stronger version of every shape, and you choose at each one. 75 minutes, 90 for yin.
$22 per class
Linden House Yogalindenhouseyoga.com
A yoga studio in the Old North End, Burlington
Two rooms, one courtyard, no mirrors.
Drop-in classes from hatha to yin, eight-week courses, and a back-care series built around real limitations. Mats, straps and blocks are here — bring nothing but clothes you can move in.
- rooms seating 16 and 24
- 2
- classes a week
- 31
- teachers, all on staff
- 5
- in the Linden courtyard since
- 2011
Four ways to practice here
If you come regularly, a pass or the monthly rate costs least. If you want to look first, book a single class — no membership, nothing to cancel.
Eight-week course
The same group for eight weeks, each session building on the last. Made for people starting from scratch or wanting to learn the foundations properly — sun salutation, breath, inversions.
$168 per course
Back-care series
Ten sessions in a group of no more than twelve, with time for real adjustments around discs, knees and shoulders. Many HSA and FSA plans reimburse it; we provide an itemized receipt.
$195 for ten sessions
Private session
One or two people, built around one thing: after an injury, during pregnancy, before a competition. At your home within six miles if you prefer.
from $105 for 60 minutes
What people here say
I started with a herniated disc and was afraid of every twist. After the second back-care series I could sit through an hour again.
No mirrors, no music with a beat, nobody adjusting you from behind without asking. That sounds like small things and it is the whole difference.
I commute, so I need the 7 a.m. class. The fact that it runs even when only four of us show up says everything about this place.
Before your first visit
Come ten minutes early. Not out of politeness, but because the courtyard is hard to find the first time: the passage is between number 14 and the flower shop, and the entrance is the second door on the right.
You need no experience. If you have never practiced, take an open hatha class or the eight-week beginners course — both are built for that. Vinyasa and ashtanga are easier to join once you know the basic shapes.
Do not eat anything heavy in the two hours before. Drink before and after rather than during; there is water in the hallway.
If something hurts, stop. Tell the teacher before class what is not working right now — knees, wrists, back, pregnancy. Then you get a different shape at that point instead of a well-meant hand.
Try it first
The trial month covers four weeks of drop-in classes and ends on its own. It does not renew, and there is nothing to cancel.
The project frame
How Awelior would approach this project
Linden House Yoga is invented — the way it is built is not. None of this is work delivered for a client. It is the shape we would give such a project — with the same depth, but without a client who would have to answer for it.
Where it starts
Linden House Yoga has two rooms off a back courtyard in the Old North End of Burlington, five teachers and three ways to practice: drop-in classes you join without booking, eight-week courses, and a back-care series for people with real limitations. Online there was a profile on a social network and a schedule as a PDF that had last been right in spring. The most common question at the desk was therefore not about yoga but about the schedule — and the second most common was whether a beginner is allowed into a drop-in class at all.
Decisions
The schedule is the second page, not the second to last
It sits directly behind the home page and is reachable from every button on it. Somebody looking for a studio is looking for a time that fits around work. Everything else is decided after that.
Every price is on the page, including the awkward ones
Single class, ten-class pass, monthly rate, course series — each with what it includes. A studio that names prices only on request loses exactly the people who are unsure whether this is for them.
The back-care series promises nothing
It describes what happens in the session, who teaches it, and that every pose comes with variations. What it does not do is claim an effect. Anyone in pain asks somebody who can look at them first — and the page says so.
The way into the courtyard is on the studio page
The entrance is at the back and cannot be seen from the street. Directions in words, not just a map crop: somebody arriving for the first time who spends five minutes searching walks late into a class that starts in silence.
Deliberately left outNo online payment and no customer account on the site. Passes and rates run through the desk and the member app; a second way to buy on the website would mean keeping the same pass balance in two places. No star ratings either: a studio with four teachers and a handful of regulars cannot produce a meaningful number from them, only one that looks like it.
What is in it
- Pages
- 5
- Content blocks
- 26
- Languages
- 4
Five pages covering the schedule, prices, teachers, workshops and how to find the place, in every language of the site. Navigation, switches and disclosures work; forms and booking buttons are laid out and do nothing.
How it would go on
One source for the schedule
The schedule on the website and the one in the app have to come from the same table. Two maintained schedules are worse than one, because nobody knows which is right.
Show who is covering
People fall ill and get covered — and for practitioners that matters, because many come for a particular teacher. It needs a route the desk can operate in two minutes.
Workshops with sign-up
A workshop is not a class: limited places, a deposit, often full. That is the next sensible build — and the first one that moves money.
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