19 Donation-Based Workout Classes You Can Do Online

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Whether you're a Tuesday at 6 p.m. or a Thursday at noon type of exerciser, you can jog your way into the Nonnormative Body Club's virtual bodyweight strength and cardio fitness classes. You can give a sliding scale donation (which includes a zero dollar option) or just settle in for the closed-captioned virtual fitness classes complete with the exercise modifications you might need.

You've got no choice but to work from home, so you might as well #WerkFromHome. Whether you're looking for donation-based boxing, CrossFit, or yoga classes, LGBTQ health and wellness organization The OUT Foundation serves up something for you. Each week, the Foundation will feature two or three LGBTQ fitness instructors to lead workouts for a $7 donation.

Sometimes you just have to HIIT it at home. Liber8Fit offers power yoga, high-intensity interval training (HIIT), and recovery yoga, all through the comfort of Zoom. The studio updates their weekly livestream schedule on Instagram, and donations can be made to @liber8fit on Venmo.

Don't worry, you won't have to crank your thermostat up for these hot yoga online sessions. Hot Asana Yoga Studio is bringing all kinds of yoga classes for all levels into your living room, from 30-minute flows to specific videos teaching you how to do a pike handstand. You can donate right on their site.

If you've been looking for a longer yoga practice, Village Yoga hosts hour-long sessions for suggested donations. Their videos are labeled with levels so you can find the right amount of challenge for your own body. You can even plug your practice into curated Spotify yoga playlists. Donations can be made through Venmo on their website.

Fitness studio Barry's is looking to raise at least $10,000 for global medical equipment provider Direct Relief, and they're doing so by bringing workouts into your home every Saturday morning. These classes are free for first responders and healthcare workers, and everyone else can donate, with the proceeds going to Direct Relief.

It turns out that you need neither mud nor boots to work out like you're about to run an obstacle course. You can get your first seven days of community-based at-home workouts from Tough Mudder Bootcamp for a $1 donation, which will go to Americares' COVID-19 relief efforts.

Yoga to the People has always been donation-based to improve access to yoga year-round. Whether you tune into their workshops, their virtual yoga sessions, or their podcast, you can donate right on the site.

If you want your donation to go directly to healthcare workers, Forward Fitness will help you give back and up your Pilates game. Their weekly Instagram Live fitness classes have been putting your donations toward feeding healthcare workers at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans.

When Monday is looming and the Sunday scaries hit, why not Zoom your way through a yoga session? Weekly Sunday morning classes from The Yoga Studio 24 are donation-based and aimed specifically at reducing your anxiety.

The physical doors might be closed, but the yoga studio Soul Fire Collective is still bringing your practice to you. Since you can mute yourself through the 30-minute classes, you're encouraged to blast your own tunes. These yoga classes use a pay what you can system, with all transactions made through their site.

No matter what level of experience you bring to your mat, Union Street Yoga will have a quarantine session for you. Because they're offering classes at many different times of day, you have a better chance of squeezing in some livestreamed yoga to your new WFH routine. All virtual classes are donation-based during the pandemic.

Gold Country Yoga's live class schedule comes complete with recommendations for how to set up your living room for your Zoom yoga class. Each time you donate to one of these sessions, they'll give 25% of their profits to the business-assistance nonprofit Sonora Area Foundation's local pandemic response.

Focused on being accessible to all kinds of bodies and experience levels, Cambio Yoga makes it clear that every pose is optional ⁠— it's more about forming community than what poses you're comfortable sinking into. Donations are encouraged, but payment is optional. "Come as you are," Cambio's site says, "and let your heart and personal financial situation be your guide as to what you choose to contribute."

You don't have to be in NYC to become a part of the community of yogis at Sacred. With their set of free, sliding scale, and donation-based classes, you'll be able to find a flow that suits your emotional, physical, and financial needs.

Looking to fuse your yoga practice with some Pilates moves? That's exactly what you'll get from Archipelago's virtual classes. To join their yoga fusion online community, you can opt to give a suggested donation when you "buy" tickets.

Union Yoga offers trauma-informed yoga classes for all. If you work in health care, are a first responder, or are in recovery from an eating disorder or substance use, these classes are offered at a sliding scale.

With everything from yoga classes for queer and trans folks to donation-based meditation classes, Third Root Community Health Center is bringing affirming yoga practices into your living room. Donations can be made through Paypal.

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