Our Culture

Yoga Pod is the five-time winner of Gainesville Sun’s Best of the Best yoga studio. At Yoga Pod, we commit to breathe first and act second. We cultivate discipline through the rigor, heat, and focus of our practice. Through infectious, positive attitude and culture, we create community and build an impactful tribe. We strive to live in harmony with nature, and our open, compassionate hearts guide us to do the right thing. Our shared intention is our guiding beacon. We invite you to come as you are, and leave feeling refreshed and inspired.

Mission

Our mission is to create a vibrant yoga community where you can transform your body, elevate your mind, and open your heart.

Vision

Our vision is to redefine fitness and forge a sustainable, intentional yoga practice through breath, strength, and sweat.

Values

Breathe First, Cultivate Discipline, Create Community, Honor Nature, Do the Right Thing

Philosophy + Science

Our philosophy is rooted in the science of flow state, where you achieve a heightened state of focus and attention. Achieve physical, mental, and spiritual fitness through our comprehensive yoga and strength training classes. Increase body awareness, elevate your personal growth, and decrease your stress levels.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Yoga Pod, we break the box that society puts us in. We believe that Yoga is for everyone and anyone. You do not have to look or feel a certain way to practice with us. In that, we are committed to diversity and inclusion to expand the variety of students who walk through our doors. We are redefining the status quo surrounding Yoga by fostering an open space that aligns with our core values. This mission wholeheartedly begins with educating ourselves, and holding space for those underrepresented or unseen, as we sweat, breathe, and grow together.

Locally Owned + Operated

Yoga Pod is a locally owned and operated business, where owners Alex & Rachel Jarboe and Dan Carbonell redefine fitness and help students forge a sustainable, intentional practice through breath, strength, and sweat. Our practice informs our purpose in business. We can't wait to welcome you to your first experience.

Community

Principles

Our principles guide the interaction with our community and ourselves. In combination with our mission, vision, values and intention, and unity commitment, our principles are the ethos of our community and tactics of our culture.

Immediacy

Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. The experience is to be here now, to embody presence, and savor each moment. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves. No idea can substitute for this experience.

Participation

Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.

Communal Effort

Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.

Cultural Responsibility

We value strength in our culture and seek to create that anywhere we go. As a representative of the community, it is important to always uplift those around you and follow the Yoga Pod intention. We take it upon ourselves to lead the charge in mindful communication, listening, and non-violent conflict resolution.

Radical Inclusion

Anyone may be a part of Yoga Pod. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.

Gifting

Our culture is devoted to acts of gift-giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value. We strive to provide gifts throughout the studio experience, so students can take this principle into their own life.