Alison Bologna, Shri Studio
In 2009, Alison Bologna opened Shri Studio, Urban Revitalization Yoga, in downtown Pawtucket with the mission of offering yoga and wellness classes to the local downtown district while spearheading neighborhood revitalization efforts. Today, Shri Studio is the only corporation of its kind in the state with an emphasis on yoga outreach in urban communities.
A longtime student of yoga, Bologna received her National Yoga Alliance teacher certification in 2006 and since then, she has taught yoga classes in several locations throughout Rhode Island, when she’s not busy anchoring and reporting the news for WJAR. When she moved to downtown Pawtucket in 2009, she was inspired by the revitalization efforts in the district and decided to create a space where yoga classes could be accessible to students of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds, and where new jobs could be created to help gentrify the neighborhood.
