This building has housed a space for yoga since 2002 when Gina Wasserlein started in a small room down the hall. Over the years it grew to over 1500 square feet of peaceful practice space. What began as Downtown Yoga is now Ganpati Om downtown as of May 2019.

As the new caretakers our main goal is to provide a safe, accessible yoga space for the people who work and live downtown and beyond. We strive to create a community based, grass roots, simple business structure that can help to achieve this goal long term.

Christopher and I plan to keep costs down by using a smaller office space, teaching more classes ourselves and doing as much of day to day work as we can. We will donate our time for all other aspects of running the studio and pay ourselves only for the classes we teach.

We aim to be as transparent as possible with our financial structure and our only costs will be for rent, insurance, phone and teacher pay for the 10/11 classes a week that are provided. Now we are almost at the point where what is coming in equals what is going out and that is amazing to us in this post-Covid landscape. It has been an uphill climb back to where we were in March 2020 so please share your love of yoga and our space with others so we can continue to grow our community.

We have always believed that if we are open and honest with you, our students, we can and will succeed with our goal. Yoga is needed in our city, especially downtown. Your opinions matter and we encourage all of you to feel free to approach us with any of your concerns at any time. Thank you for taking the time to read this and we hope to see you all on your mats whenever your schedule allows. With much love and gratitude. Namaste.

Susan and Christopher -Ganpati Om downtown