Springfield venue sets up yoga class that offers beer
Attending yoga classes often means that the attendee can expect to strengthen their body while reaching their “Zen mode,” a feeling that emphasizes meditation and allows a person to focus on only themselves. The Barley House has made efforts for the city of Springfield to enter their own Zen mode with a unique class setting: a class that allows attendees to drink beer.
The Barley House hosts the beer and yoga classes every Tuesday and Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Attendees are only charged $5, which pays for their entry and allows one free beer. Every additional beer is an extra $2.
Assistant manager Krislyn Welling came up with the concept of a beer and yoga class alongside owner Cassidy Palmer. With the original name of “broga,” Welling found it to be detrimental to the idea.
“We were calling it ‘broga.’ We call it ‘beer and yoga’ from now on because a lot of people thought it was only for men,” Welling said.
Welling has noticed that since calling the event “beer and yoga,” the crowd has been mainly women, seeing only a few men.
“It’s mainly women, but I’ve seen a couple [men]. A few weeks ago, we had a stranded pilot. His plane crashed in Springfield and saw this on Facebook and came. It was very random but oh well!” Welling said.
Brandon Dye, a three-year massage therapist, has taken the role of being the yoga instructor every Tuesday for the beer and yoga events after being asked on Facebook Messenger.
“I actually got a message on Messenger one day saying ‘hey, we need a male instructor to teach yoga,” Dye said. “They said they could do beer yoga and I said, ‘why not, let’s do it!’”
Dye originally got into yoga after attending a few classes and realized that it went hand-in-hand with his career while also allowing him to be more open with his clients.
“I went to a couple of yoga classes and said ‘hey, this is kind of what I do, but it’s exercising, and I can do it with people and be more open,’” Dye said.
The average number of attendees is around five. Dye’s ideal number he would like to see at these events would be “at least ten.”
“That would be pretty fun because when it’s just a small group of people, they like to watch the instructor. If it’s a bigger group of people, they watch each other,” Dye said. “I can walk around more, help people get into poses, and fix little things they might need help with.”
Angela Moeller, a marketing manager, feels the event is a bargain.
“You cannot do yoga anywhere in town for five bucks, “Moeller said. “You can’t even get a beer for five bucks yet alone do that and yoga.”
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