Alison Bologna Creates a Space for All with New Shri Location
The bustling live, work and wellness community weaves new life and light into Pawtucket's Conant Thread complex.
November 14, 2024
Punching out the bricked-in windows was one of the first orders of business when work started on Shri’s new location in the summer of 2021.
The move was both strategic and metaphoric: The word shri, in Sanskrit, means light, radiance and abundance. Once finished, the windows would let sunlight stream into the building’s expansive yoga studio space.
“We did not go small with windows,” says Shri’s founder, Alison Bologna, peering into the sunny space on a recent morning as folks from the Pawtucket Senior Center reach their arms into the sky during a chair yoga class. “We literally replaced everything that was bricked in with brand-new windows to let in as much light as we possibly could.”
