Why We Started Comparing Shalas Properly
Two seasons of watching friends book the wrong shala off a glossy website taught us that style-matching mattered more than star ratings.
The Problem With Most Retreat Listings
Every directory sorts shalas by price or by photo quality, not by whether the teaching style matches what you actually practise. We visit each one, sit in on a class, and note the style before it goes on the list.
What Gets a Shala Listed
We Sit In on a Class First
Nobody gets listed from a phone call. Someone from the team attends a full session, notes whether it’s twelve students to one teacher or four, and only then decides which style category it belongs in.
We Re-Check Every Season
Teachers move on, timetables shift, and a shala that ran ashtanga mornings last winter might be all vinyasa by November. We call ahead each season rather than trusting last year’s notes.
We started re-checking every listing each season after sending a group to a shala that had quietly switched from yin to power yoga six months earlier.
Ready to Find Your Shala?
Tell us your practice and we’ll point you at the shalas actually built for it, not the ones with the biggest ad budget.