About the studio
Founded in 2014 by Maren Holloway. Six instructors, 25 classes a week, a cap of 16 mats per class, and a quiet room on E. 7th Street that's been our home from the very first day.
Maren Holloway opened Stillpoint in the spring of 2014, after eight years teaching in Brooklyn and a quiet move home to Austin. The first class had three students — her sister, her sister’s neighbor, and one woman who’d seen the chalkboard out front. All three are still here.
The studio is, by design, small. Sixteen mats fit comfortably with room left over to walk between rows. We have never bought a bigger sign, expanded to a second location, or run a Groupon. Every instructor we’ve hired came in as a regular student first; they took the 200-hour training with Maren, taught their first class to friends in the room, and stayed.
Twelve years later the studio looks more or less the same. The mats are newer, the bolsters have been replaced twice, the back wall got painted a deeper green last fall. There are six instructors now, 25 classes a week, and a quiet 200-hour training cohort that graduates every June and December. The math still works.
Stillpoint doesn’t run promotions, doesn’t sell high-pressure memberships, and doesn’t auto-renew anything. Most of our students come because a friend brought them — and a handful of them, eventually, bring their own.
12
Years on E. 7th
Founded 2014 by Maren Holloway, still teaching here today
6
Instructors
All Yoga Alliance certified — most with 500-hour training
25
Classes a week
Sunrise to evening, every day, plus weekend workshops
Free
First class
Mat, props, and water included — no card on file
Operating principles
A small studio only works if its principles are non-negotiable. These are ours, written down so you can hold us to them.
Sixteen is what fits in our room with space to walk between rows. We don't overbook, we don't double up. If a class is full, the next one is in a few hours.
Sanitized after every class. Bolsters, blocks, blankets, straps, eye pillows — all on the wall, all yours to use. Bring water; we have towels.
Drop-ins, 10-class packs, and monthly unlimited. Pause anytime; we bill manually each month. If you forget to come for a month, we don't quietly keep charging you.
Most of our team is RYT-500. Three are E-RYT (experienced). We don't bring in subs from outside — every face at the front of the room is one you'll see again.
All bodies, all sizes, all experience levels, all ages welcome on every mat. We say it because we mean it; the studio looks like the neighborhood it's in.
Mat, props, water — included. No card on file. We won't pitch you a package at the desk. Try the room first; decide what fits after.
Your teachers
Founder · Lead Teacher
Founded Stillpoint in 2014 after eight years teaching in Brooklyn. E-RYT 500, certified in restorative and prenatal. Teaches Sunday Slow Vinyasa and the 200-hour training.
Vinyasa · Hot 26
Trained with Baron Baptiste and Bikram Choudhury affiliates. Brings warmth and structure to a hot room. Teaches mornings Tuesday through Friday.
Yin · Sound · Workshops
Yin and sound-bath specialist. Bilingual EN/HI. Leads our Friday-night sound baths and the quarterly pranayama workshops.
Inside the studio
Our practice
What happens on the mat is the easy part. What it teaches you about how to breathe in traffic, sit with grief, listen to your body when it’s tired — that’s the work. We try to teach the second one through the first.
Arrive 10 minutes early
Sign in, leave shoes at the door, choose a spot. Tea is on. No need to rush.
Borrow what you need
Mats, blocks, bolsters, blankets, straps — all included. We have water and small towels.
Tell your instructor
Pregnancy, recent injuries, what you're avoiding today — share what's useful. We adjust the class around you, not the other way around.
Take what fits
Modify, sit out a pose, leave child's pose for the whole class. The practice meets you where you are. Always.
Student voices
We don’t pay for reviews and we don’t buy ads. These are students who’ve been on a mat with us for a year or more. Full Google reviews linked from each.
I came to Stillpoint after a long break from yoga, expecting to feel embarrassed. Maren put a bolster behind me in pigeon and I cried in child's pose. It felt like coming home.
Hannah K.
Theo's hot class is the only one I look forward to. He sequences it like a piece of music — there's a build, a peak, a release. I leave wrung out and smiling.
Marcus T.
I did the 200-hour training with Maren last year. The whole cohort still meets monthly. The training was the best money I've spent on myself in a decade.
Priya R.
Come as you are
Stop by between classes any weekday afternoon. Maren or whoever's at the desk will give you a tour, hand you a tea, and answer anything.
