Firefly Studios provides training + community to individuals who are passionate about wellness + compassion as a lifestyle. Our team of diverse instructors offers mindfulness + fitness classes in Danville, Virginia and online. We offer classes at our River District Yoga Studio and in other locations such as the Danville Golf Club, Ballad Brewing, and the Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History.
Firefly started with the goal to build a sustainable yoga community in our hometown. We are a micro business that provides studio space and support for a team of independent instructors to share their knowledge with our community. Your class fees and membership dues are what pays our instructors a fair wage and pays rent, utilities and operating expenses for our Main Street and online studios. We are so grateful for your support.
Values
Our values are love, kindness, equanimity, gratitude, and play.
We acknowledge, honor and appreciate the South Asian roots of yoga. We are committed to strengthening diversity, equity, and inclusion in yoga by amplifying South Asian and BIPOC voices and welcoming all people into our wellness community.
History
SEPTEMBER 2021 We added Ki Gong to our schedule. We announced we are hosting a 200 Hour Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training in Danville with Hot Asana Yoga University.
APRIL 2021 After 12 months of being without a physical studio, we reopened our River District Yoga Studio at 415 Main Street, on the second floor of The Meredith Gravely School of Dance, while continuing outdoor and online yoga classes. We welcomed Kristen Barker and Fit to Dance to our schedule.
NOVEMBER 2020 Our founding Studio Manager, Sarah Spence, spread her wings and moved west to Colorado. We want to acknowledge and thank Sarah for her leadership and for offering over 500 classes with Firefly. You can find her at wolf-craft.net
MAY 2020 We began offering Outdoor Yoga at 975 Main Street, on the lawn of the Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History. We continued through November, along with online classes.
MARCH 2020 We closed our physical studio mid-March due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We began offering Online Classes and started our Yoga On-Demand library.
DECEMBER 2019 We hosted our first visiting teacher, when Druminyasa brought the beats for a pair of yin & yang yoga classes.
SUMMER/FALL 2019 Firefly Kids began, including family yoga classes at Ballad Brewing and an after school program for 4th & 5th graders at the Boys & Girls Club of Danville.
FEBRUARY 2019 Firefly won a grant from the River District Association’s Dream Launch competition. The grant funds helped reimburse for business expenses like props, marketing, etc.
NOVEMBER 2018 Firefly offered our first class on Thanksgiving Day at Ballad Brewing, and that Monday we officially opened at 310 Main Street, above Lizzy Lou Boutique and began offering unheated yoga classes 7 days/week.
OCTOBER 2018 Hot Asana Danville announced it would not reopen after major flooding from Hurricane Michael. The teachers taught pop up classes at various downtown locations for about a month, before gathering and envisioning creating a new studio.
AUGUST 2014 Hot Asana Danville opened in the Pemberton Lofts on Bridge Street and Hot Asana Yoga University began offering annual yoga teacher trainings, which is the source of many of Firefly’s founding teachers.
