Karma Yoga is growing in a number of ways. The Bloomfield Hills-based yoga center has been adding different types of classes, new types of customers, more staff to serve them, looking at opening a second location and partnering with a Detroit school.
The 9-year-old company now employs 25 people after hiring 10 over the last year, and there are plans to add more next year. Spurring that growth in staff is an expansion of yoga classes to a wider audience. Karma Yoga now offers family oriented yoga classes, such as pre-natal yoga classes for mothers and yoga classes for parents and their new babies. The company is also looking at adding yoga classes that service both parents and young children.
"Because of that I have been increasing my staff and my staff has been adding to its knowledge so it now has the certifications to teach those classes," says Katherine Austin, owner of
Karma Yoga.
Karma Yoga is also working to establish a partnership with the
Catherine Ferguson Academy, a high school in Detroit that specializes in education for pregnant teens and teen mothers. Austin Would like to begin teaching pre-natal yoga classes there.
Austin is also looking at expanding to a second location in 2013. Her business has increased its workload by 25 percent over the last year and expects it to keep growing in 2013.
"I'm really looking for a future expansion in another location," Austin says. We're really outgrowing our space."
Source: Katherine Austin, owner of Karma Yoga
Writer: Jon Zemke
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