Down Under Yoga: From humble beginnings to a yoga powerhouse
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Back to School: Exercise mindfulness skills
Back to school can mean back to stress for students. As kids return to class, they can deal with the stress and anxiety they may be feeling by taking a breath.
Is it hot in here? Seven things I learned about hot yoga
Now, I’ve been going to classes sporadically for the past five years, but I finally set up a consistent weekly schedule with the thanks of one special studio.
Revealing Boston’s Top 5 Must-Try Fitness Classes
With six locations and an extensive range of classes offered at every studio, it’s guaranteed that there is a perfect fit for everyone.
Yoga can reduce frailty in older people, Brigham and Women's Hospital study finds
Yoga may help prevent frailty in older adults, according to local researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. For 76-year-old Patricia Walden, yoga is a way life.
Stories of Resilience: Down Under Yoga
Stories of Resilience is a series focused on profiling local businesses in the city and sharing their success and challenges in dealing with the COVID Pandemic of the last 2 years. This entry we talked to Down Under Yoga.
Businesses Join Forces: A Cambridge Cafe and Yoga Studio Team Up to Offer a Wellness Wonderland
Two Cambridge companies you already love, the Life Alive Organic Cafe, and Down Under Yoga, team up to prove that when it comes to wellness, two businesses can be better than one.
Blending Wellness with Blenders
The collaborators at Life Alive Organic Café and Down Under School of Yoga are determined to keep your energy ignited. Their first-ever collaboration, Wellness Oasis, which opened at 22 John F. Kennedy Street on March 1st, strives to turn our intellectual mecca into a spiritual hub. According to Life Alive’s CEO Bryan Timko, their mission is rooted in an essential tenet: “how we eat, move, and think influences how we feel.”
Yoga, açaí, and green juice: A wellness ‘one-stop shop’ opens in Harvard Square
The unique partnership takes a holistic approach to boosting health, with a second location coming in the South End soon.
Quirky Vegetarian Chain Life Alive Adds Yoga to the Mix
Life Alive and Down Under School of Yoga are collaborating on a brand new Harvard Square location and another opening soon in Boston’s South End.
In Harvard Square, Life Alive + Down Under create a restaurant and “wellness oasis”
'We've tried to create a space that lifts you up, calms you down, and energizes you,' founders say.
Down Under named in “greatest yoga destinations around the world”
Humbled and honored to be featured alongside distant friends in the new book 50 Places to Practice Yoga Before You Die. Your beloved teachers are reviewed as "one of America's most esteemed faculties".
Connecting Body and Mind at Life Alive and Down Under School of Yoga Collaboratives
Created to connect the way we eat and move with how we feel, the new locations are designed to put nourishment, motion and reflection under one roof.
The collaborators brought Edible Boston behind the scenes, and shared how Life Alive imbues every dish it serves with love, energy and vitality.
Organic cafe teams up with studio to open yoga-cafes in Greater Boston
Leaders of both companies said their businesses complement one another. Both locations will include Life Alive’s cafes with organic menu offerings and space for Down Under’s yoga programming.
“Not only do we hear it directly from our guests, but research also shows the food we eat has an immediate positive effect on our energy levels and mood,” Life Alive CEO Bryan Timko said.
“Movement, reflection and nourishment are key components of how we feel,” said Kate Heffernan, Down Under’s teacher leadership council co-chair.
Yoga After 60? Go For It!
We asked Rosie Richardson, a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT), Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and a graduate of the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco’s 2-year Advanced Studies/Teacher Training program, how women 60+ can incorporate yoga into their lives…
COVID-19 and the Future of Yoga
Down Under’s team pivoted nimbly with speed, strategy, and faculty-focused care, transforming their entire schedule of 3 studios hosting 40 classes a day to a virtual school. Transparency was key – writing weekly to staff and students, the owner told our community candidly that we’d need help to survive. The result was beautiful: students showed up grate-fully to class supporting their teachers; faculty allowed their pay to be capped so as not to lose managers. Not a single soul was fired or furloughed in the process. In fact, Down Under went global, reaching communities around the world who longed for the opportunity to study with their renowned teachers.
Justine Cohen and Michael Ponte - “Weathering the Storm”
Justine Wiltshire Cohen and Michael Ponte, owner and manager at Down Under Yoga School of Yoga in Boston, talk with J about what how things have been going since Justine was last on the show three years ago and what they are doing to meat the challenge of the pandemic crisis. They discuss Down Under’s transition to making their teachers employees, responding to the needs of teachers and staff, important keys to their success, efforts they are making to survive the shut down, and the core principles that are guiding their choices.
Virtual Yoga Comes of Age During the Pandemic
More people are turning to the practice of yoga via the internet as state and local officials stress social distancing, close parking lots to beaches, shut down sports in parks and shutter indoor places to exercise.
Justine Wiltshire Cohen, director of Down Under School of Yoga with locations in Brookline, Cambridge, and Newton, teaches seven different styles of yoga at her school, where students learn to connect movement to breath, leaving them physically strong, but mentally quiet.