Search for a yoga class in Bangalore and you will find studio after studio with a contact form where the fee should be. The reasoning is familiar: get the enquiry first, quote afterwards, and quote according to how keen the person sounded. It works, in the narrow sense that it produces phone numbers. It also means that the single question every person actually has when they open the page is the one question the page refuses to answer.
A great many of the people searching for a class in this city type the words “with fees” or “price” on the end of the query. They are not being difficult. They are trying to work out whether a class near MS Ramaiah hospital is ₹1,000 a month or ₹6,000 a month before they spend an evening on it, because the answer decides whether they enquire at all.
So the numbers are here, in full, in both currencies, including the rows that are unflattering. If a fee here turns out to be wrong for you, you will have found that out in ten seconds rather than after a phone call you did not want. And if it is right, the next thing to do is not to pay anything: it is to come to the free class and find out whether the teaching is worth the figure in the first place.
A word on where these numbers sit. Bangalore studios that publish a rate run roughly ₹2,700 to ₹5,000 a month, and drop-in classes across the city are ₹350 to ₹750. This school is well under that, and it can be, because the class is taught in an association hall rather than on a leased studio floor and there is no front desk to pay for. Online, the opposite is true: there are apps offering live yoga for a hundred rupees a month to batches of thousands, and no attempt is made to match them, because a batch of fifteen and a batch of two thousand are not the same product at any price.
There is one online fee, in rupees, wherever you live. A student in London or Dubai is choosing between this class and a studio down the road at £74 or AED 1,250 a month, and ₹3,500 comes to about £27 or AED 136 at the current rate. It is deliberately not a separate dollar price: the class is the same, the teacher is the same, and the fee is the same.
One last thing worth saying plainly. A low fee is not the argument being made here. What this fee buys is a small group with one teacher who has been doing this for about forty years, who corrects what he can see in front of him, and who teaches the class himself rather than rotating through a staff rota. Whether that is worth ₹3,000 a month is genuinely your call, and it is easier to make after an hour in the room than after reading a page about it.