Our Story

Arizona Yoga Co. is owned by Liz Higgins and Paul Ewry, and operated by Liz, with the help of a close knit group of yoga instructors. We all share a love of this beautiful desert community and a belief in using our roots to build intentional community. In fact, what has brought so many of our teachers together is the unified mission of spreading donation-based yoga. For some of us, that mission started as part of the Yoga to the People franchise. Having started our practice with the Tempe-branch of Yoga to the People, which operated independently for many years in Arizona, Liz and fellow teachers had a dream of creating a space that was all our own upon the closure of the Yoga to the People.

On July 31, 2020 Arizona Yoga Co. was born. For the past two years, with the feedback of our community members, we have made incremental changes to the way we operate as a studio so that we can carve out our own path. One thing that will never change is our donation-based model. We believe this model is at the root of ancient yogic philosophy.

Arizona Yoga Co. strives to create systemic change for the long term; we are committed to remaining malleable in order to create as safe a community as possible. We rely on the members of our studio to help guide us forward in order to build something truly magical. We exist entirely for our community and because of our community. Thank you for being here!