Channel 19 WXIX Stay-Treat Interview with Rachel Roberts
May 17, 2011
Yoga programs come in many flavors
Classes for young, old, overweight and overworked
May 18, 2011
For those on the go Nine-to-fivers with frantic schedules can grab lunch and a 45-minute
Ashtanga/Vinyasa yoga class - which incorporates flowing poses and
mindful breathing - at the Yoga Bar, Downtown. The studio, which opened
last fall, offers the Dine + Dash Lunch Flow, 12:05-12:50 p.m. on
Tuesdays, with an optional take-away sushi lunch from Soho Sushi on
Fourth Street.
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AM 550 Interview May 8, 2010
Over-the-Rhine - Stretching Out on Main Street
By: Steven Rosen
12/7/2010
Four
yoga studios are on the short stretch of Main between downtown's Eighth
Street and Over-the-Rhine's Liberty Street. Two have opened this year,
one just in October. Rents made affordable during the recession played a
role in the opening of the two newer studios, as did the fact the
business owners/yoga teachers didn't need huge capital investment to get
started.
And now all four have joined together under the "
Yoga Row" banner, offering a $20 passport that
entitles purchasers to one discounted class at each studio. It is for
sale at Park + Vine, the green-oriented urban-living store that in
October expanded from Vine Street into the old Kaldi's location at 1202
Main. Among its products are yoga mats and clothing.
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The Yoga Bar on FrantiV
Yoga Row creating new business unions along Main
Street
A visit to Main Street between 8th and Liberty streets nowadays
reveals a neighborhood not only on the mend, but on the rise.
“There are a few signs that keen-eyed observers of urban areas look
for that an area is changing,” says Main Street business owner Nancy
Willman. “The increased use of bicycles, people walking pets, a new
hardware store or successful bakery, and another is the growth of yoga
studios. Main Street shows all these signs — especially now with four
yoga studios equally spaced along eight blocks of Main Street.”
The owners of Main Street Yoga, Yoga Bar, You Do Yoga, and
the Joyful Life
Yoga Center have collaborated together to form a new project,
nicknamed “Yoga Row.”
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to read full article.
The
Yoga Bar to open downtown
September 2010
It’s not your typical bar.
This one offers up Ashtanga, Yin and Vinyasa yoga classes in addition
to healthy non-alcoholic beverages like coconut water and Kumbucha tea.
It opens October 1 at 825 Main Street above Rice Rocket Asian Grill
(formerly Bouchard’s on Main). The 2,300-square-foot space was formerly
occupied by a dance club and piano bar.
Operating the studio is Cincinnati native Rachel Roberts, who has
practiced yoga since 1998. In 2008 and
2009, she traveled Europe and Asia studying the practice. She studied at
the Ashtanga Research Institute in Mysore, India and took teacher
training courses in Bali.
The Yoga Bar is her first yoga venture in Cincinnati. She calls it a
yoga community center. On weekends, it will be open for workshops,
business meetings and musical performances. She’ll offer free wi-fi.
“I traveled around the world for two years safely by myself because
every time I got off a plane, I found a yoga studio, and instantly I had
a community of tour guides, den mothers and restaurant critics to show
me the ropes,” Roberts said, in a news release. “We have that here in
Cincinnati–we just need a fostering place to meet each other.”
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The Yoga Bar to serve up strong sense of
community downtown
August 2010
Rachel Roberts was tired of traveling, and as a well-known and beloved
yoga teacher in the Cincinnati area, she was splitting her time between
several different studios, none of which were near her home in downtown
Cincinnati. As a result, Cincinnati’s newest yoga studio called
The Yoga Bar was
born.
“I am committed to a walkable lifestyle, and I wanted all my energy
to be in one place,” said Roberts about her previously demanding travel
schedule. “I want to give where I live.”
Furthering this commitment to place, Roberts says that Sangha,
the Sanskrit word for community, illustrates the desire to connect
those living in the downtown area. The idea, she says, is to create a
welcoming, non-intimidating activity where people can learn more about
each other and grow closer.
“Where else can you learn more about others’ lives than at a bar?,”
she asked.
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Exercising a Community
October 2010
Conversation after meditation helps foster a community feel. Read on to
discover how one new yoga studio takes this creative approach with its
"yoga bar" concept.
When Rachel Roberts wanted to start her own yoga studio, she wanted her
space to encourage more than just the meditative exercise. "I had the
idea to create a space where people would want to stay and linger, come
early for class, stay after class and get to know the people that they
were practicing with," she says.
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