Skylight Room
30 mats · Not heated, about 20 to 22°C
Our big room under four north-facing skylights. Soft, even light all day, wood floors, and a wall of props. Every unheated class happens here.
Gottingen Street · since 2016
A bright room, a kind welcome
Northlight began with a simple idea: a yoga studio where a nervous beginner and a ten-year regular both feel at home, and where nobody has to guess what a class will be like.
Why "Northlight"
Painters love north light: it is soft, even, and never glares. When Maren Holt found a second-floor room on Gottingen Street with four north-facing skylights, she knew it was the studio. She had spent five years teaching in rented church halls, carrying blocks in a laundry bag.
We opened in 2016 with one room and nine classes a week. The Ember Room, our heated room, came in 2019, after students kept asking for a warm class that did not feel like a sauna. Today 6 teachers lead 43 classes a week, and the front desk still knows most people by name.
We are not the biggest studio in Halifax, and we do not want to be. We would rather be the one where you feel welcome on your first day and still look forward to class in your fifth year.
Northlight in numbers
- Opened on Gottingen St
- 2016
- Opened on Gottingen St
- Classes every week
- 43
- Classes every week
- Teachers who know your name
- 6
- Teachers who know your name
- Rooms, one heated
- 2
- Rooms, one heated
What we care about
Three ideas that shape every class, every price and every email we send.
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Come as you are
Any body, any age, any level of flexibility. Our classes are built for the people who actually walk in, not for a photo.
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Plain talk
Prices on the website, the room temperature on every class, and honest answers about what yoga can and cannot do.
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Room to rest
Child's pose is always allowed. Leaving the hot room is always allowed. Rest is part of the practice here, not a failure.
Two rooms
Ember Room
22 mats · Warm 27 to 29°C, or hot 33 to 37°C
The heated room. Radiant ceiling panels warm you, not just the air, and a fresh-air system swaps the air out several times an hour, so it feels warm, not stuffy.
Both rooms are on the second floor, with an elevator from the street door, an accessible washroom, two change rooms with showers, and lockers that take your own lock or a loaner from the desk.
Our mission
To be the studio where your first class feels easy, your hundredth still feels fresh, and every class tells you the truth about what it is.
New here?
Your first three weeks, unlimited.
Try every style and every teacher for 21 days, with a free mat and towel each visit. No auto-renew, no pressure, just class.