Private yoga across Makati, from the CBD to the villages

Makati is really several places at once, and each one has its own rhythm. The business district runs along Ayala Avenue, Paseo de Roxas and Makati Avenue, with Ayala Triangle Gardens in the middle, and its two office villages each have a weekend market: Salcedo Village on Saturday, Legaspi Village on Sunday. If you live in one of them, look for a private yoga teacher in Salcedo Village or yoga lessons at home in Legaspi Village. Private yoga in Rockwell covers the small block of towers by the Pasig River, around Power Plant Mall. Poblacion is the old town, with the San Pedro church and the late nights around P. Burgos, and has its own page for private yoga in Poblacion. Forbes Park and Dasmariñas Village are gated streets of houses with gardens, where private yoga in Forbes Park and Dasmariñas can happen on a lanai or in the garden. Each of those pages names the buildings and answers the questions residents there usually have. Anyone who types "yoga Makati" into a search bar is usually weighing a studio against something closer to home. This page is the overview. Just over the city line I also teach private yoga in Mandaluyong, and private yoga in Greenhills, in San Juan.

A search for yoga in Makati mostly brings up studios and class timetables, and a studio class has real things going for it: a set sequence, a full room, a fixed hour to show up for. What it cannot do is begin where you are. A private lesson comes to your condo, your house in one of the villages or a meeting room at work, at an hour you pick, and each posture is shaped to your body rather than to the room.

If you are weighing the two, the honest comparison of private and group yoga sets them out, including the times a class is the better fit.