When you’re open for business every day you have to know your purpose. Ours is Growth Through Practice. However a student or staff member wishes to grow via their yoga practice, we aim to support it. From the way we teach classes and how we hold meetings, to out-of-the-box special events, workshops and trainings, we heart growing around here and believe practice is how it gets done.
Our staff-driven Core Values are the how of Growth Through Practice. They are to Create Accessibility for anyone who wants to practice Funky Buddha Yoga, to be continuously learning, trying new things, and assessing our mistakes through Know Better, Do Better, and RICH Action, an acronym that guides how we treat our work and fellow team members. RICH Action stands for Respect, Integrity, Intentionality, Caring, Honesty, and Humility.
Our Values:
Create Accessibility
We Create Accessibility through the actions of being welcoming, offering an environment where anyone belongs, and being open to growth. We strive to make our spaces and offerings available and accessible to all.
Know Better, Do Better
We borrowed this from Maya Angelou. Our staff looks to continuously improve our offerings, ourselves, our communities, and our spaces. We don’t believe in failing, just learning. One way we are always learning is through our feedback culture, which helps us to process how we did so that we can do better next time, when appropriate.
RICH Action (Respect, Integrity, Intentional, Caring, Humble, Honest)
Our staff came up with this list of characteristics meant to support us in how we treat each other, our students, our spaces, our experiences and ourselves. The key to this Core Value is action. We seek to act in these ways, not just believing that saying the words is good enough.
Our Why:
As a staff we feel it makes the most sense to establish together what’s most important, to find one target we can aim at when it comes to our choices, actions, and interactions. We don’t just believe in these values, we do our best to actively uphold them. Day in and day out, because it’s the right thing to do.