The mission of Shantibird is to make it easy for everyone to find the right yoga class for them. Whether you are brand new to yoga, are looking to try something different, have moved, are looking for yoga on your vacation, or are looking for a prenatal yoga class, Shantibird is the place to go.
Any yoga teacher can register (for free) to become a member of Shantibird.com, and list their yoga classes into the Shantibird yoga class database. Each yoga class listing will contain a number of properties including a location/zip code, day and time, style, level, etc. Site users will be able to search the class listings based on any or multiple properties. Class listings will also contain links to teacher profiles.
Each class listing contains a date stamp from the last time it was updated. This will help ensure that students can be confident that they have the latest information about the classes they are interested in attending. To remind teachers to keep their listings up-to-date, they will automatically be prompted every six months to verify that their class listings on Shantibird.com are current.
Teacher profiles can be shared among friends and students by a direct link. A teacher's profile can be found at http://www.shantibird.com/ followed by the teacher's username.
In the future, we hope that Shantibird can include Studio profiles as well as teachers. Teachers will be able to link their classes to the appropriate studios, and it will be easier to check out additional listings at favorite sites. We also foresee additional event listings to include multi day seminars and trainings. The site will be evolving for some time while we try to include some of these useful features.
In the meantime, we hope to grow our community of teachers and students and spread the joy of yoga with this easy to use search engine. As users of this site, we count on you to let us know if there are other features you think would be useful in future revisions of the site. We also welcome your
