After eight years of synchronized inhales and exhales, Yoga Mayu will soon roll up the mats at its Mission location for the last time. Listed at $7,500 per month, the yoga studio's 1,500-square-foot retail space at 2051 Harrison St. is “available immediately.”
The ground-floor suite, with large street-facing windows onto Harrison between 16th and 17th streets, has been occupied by owners Robert Donald and his wife Gizella since 2008.
“We are vacating ... due to high rent,” said Gizella Donald, who is the studio's director and a part-time instructor. In an email, she told Hoodline that San Francisco’s pricing is unrealistic.
Asked how she felt about the closure, Donald said, “It is what it is.” Yoga Mayu’s Noe Valley location (4159-B 24th St.) will remain open.
In February, real estate brokerage firm Touchstone Commercial Partners, Inc., which holds Yoga Mayu’s lease, announced that the soon-to-be former yoga studio is move-in ready.
While Yoga Mayu’s class schedule lists four to five sessions per day through summer, Touchstone's Zach Haupert said the studio's lease terms are being broken early.
“[Mr. Donald] has two years left, and we're being nice by letting him out of his lease,” Haupert said.
Though Haupert declined to confirm the rate of Donald’s rent at Yoga Mayu, he said it was “very low, below market rate.”
Mrs. Donald did not comment on when the space will be officially vacated.
