Karma with Kid Care

Some like it hot. Some play it cool. Whatever your pleasure, you can have it your way at Calgary’s Beltline yoga studio, where the kids are welcome, too.

With three studios housed on site, Tri-Yoga Calgary owners Melissa Smith and Tunde Olaosun recognized that parents with small children are an under-represented group of practitioners in the yoga world. (And really, who needs yoga more than a new mom?) Parents to a toddler themselves, they created an on-site childcare room adjacent to a beautifully adorned lobby with toys, mats and even a pint-sized private privy.

Childcare is provided by qualified volunteers (with First Aid and childcare experience) for $3 per child and must be booked a day in advance. There is no minimum age.

Childcare is included with a 6 or 12 month unlimited membership. If yoga is your thing, the annual pass really is the way to go. It’s competitively priced, includes discounts on workshops and registered programs, and of course, takes care of your babysitting as well. Drop-in classes cost $17 per class, or test out a Wednesday Karma class by donation.

Tri-Yoga teaches a variety of classes in their large (heated) and smaller (unheated) studios. Hot yoga is a mainstay of their practice, and the studio offers a variety of heated classes daily, for beginners to advanced practitioners.

Not only is Tri-Yoga Calgary the only yoga studio in town to offer on-site childcare, they are also the only hot studio in town equipped with a special foam and rubber floor. This hot studio flooring is easier to keep clean (important in a sweaty heated studio), is easier on the joints, and as an added bonus, is much harder to balance upon which helps build core strength.

There are many unheated program options offered as well. Ashtanga classes are taught throughout the week, along with a variety of registered programs for kids and families including Prenatal, Mom and Baby, Parent and Tot, and Kids’ Yoga (for preschoolers). Other less-common class offerings include Yoga for Fertility and Family Yoga designed for parents and their school-aged children. Partner Yoga is also on the radar for fall.

Tri-Yoga is located on 10th Avenue at 11 Street SW (across the street from Co-op). Parking is available just east of the building for 25 cents (yes, that number is correct).

So don’t sweat the childcare. Save it for the mat instead.