8 Limbs Yoga Shrinks From Four Studios to Two

Seattle Fitness Magazine · 30 Sep 2026

• 4studios once
• 2studios today
• 24years palmer ran it

Anne Phyfe Palmer opened 8 Limbs in one room on Capitol Hill

Anne Phyfe Palmer opened the first 8 Limbs yoga studio in 1996, in the Greenus Building at 500 East Pike Street on Capitol Hill.

West Seattle came next, at 4546 1/2 California Avenue Southwest. Then Wedgwood, in 1999, at 7345 35th Avenue Northeast, and Phinney Ridge a decade later, in 2009, at 6801 Greenwood Avenue North. Four studios. Four neighborhoods.

One owner, for more than two decades. Palmer's own site still describes what she built as "a family of four neighborhood studios committed to being a supportive and welcoming place to learn and grow through the mind-body practices of yoga."

The sale closed weeks before Seattle shut down

Palmer sold 8 Limbs Yoga Centers to Amaan Kurji in January 2020.

The sale closed weeks before the pandemic shutdown reached Seattle. He had barely taken over. Business-data aggregators still list Kurji as the owner of 8 Limbs today, though none is a primary source and no coverage of a further sale has surfaced.

West Seattle's studio closed in February 2021

Kurji closed the West Seattle studio permanently on February 28, 2021, citing the shutdown and the studio's continued closure.

The lease on the California Avenue Southwest space was set to expire the following month. He had hoped to revitalize the studio and extend the lease, but found that improbable with the shutdown still in effect. At the time, the company said it would keep teaching online and reopen its other studios, which it named as Capitol Hill, Phinney Ridge and Wedgwood.

When West Seattle opened is not fully settled: the business's own history groups it with Wedgwood's 1999 start, but a 2021 account of its closing described the studio as having run almost 16 years, which points closer to 2005. Nothing in the record consulted settles which is right.

Capitol Hill's original room is also gone

Capitol Hill did not make it back either.

Directory listings for the Greenus Building address now mark that studio closed, and the business's own site lists only two active locations today, with Capitol Hill dropped from the roster entirely. No source consulted gives a date or a stated reason for that closure, only that the room where Palmer opened her first studio in 1996 is no longer one of the four.

Two studios remain, both in north Seattle

What is left of 8 Limbs sits entirely in north Seattle: Wedgwood at 7345 35th Avenue Northeast and Phinney Ridge at 6801 Greenwood Avenue North.

Reviews on Phinney Ridge's Yelp page run as recent as June 2026, and the business's own site has a 200-hour teacher training booked from September 2026 through May 2027, the clearest sign available that both rooms are still holding classes more than five years after West Seattle's close. A business that once spanned Capitol Hill, West Seattle, Wedgwood and Phinney Ridge, four neighborhoods, now runs from two addresses.

What a membership costs at both studios today

A new student can try 8 Limbs for three weeks of unlimited yoga at $69, before deciding between the $140 monthly autopay for unlimited classes or the lighter $95 tier for five classes a month.

The spread shows up most in the drop-in rate: a single class costs $28 at a normal hour, but just $15 before 8 a.m., a discount built for whoever can get to a mat before work.

Palmer still teaches one class a week

Palmer did not leave the practice when she left the business.

Her own site credits her with 24 years running 8 Limbs and its roughly 60 employees before the sale, and says she now coaches other studio owners and entrepreneurs while still teaching a weekly livestream class through the studio itself.

The studio she built in one room on Capitol Hill now stands as two rooms in north Seattle, taught in part by the person who no longer owns either one.