2024 Business Women Awards ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE: Alison Bologna Shri Studio Inc. founder and owner ALISON BOLOGNA’S GOAL for Shri Studio Inc.’s new home is to be “self-sustaining.” Bologna launched the yoga studio in 2010 in an empty downtown Pawtucket storefront, offering low-cost and free classes to students who didn’t have access to yoga.

PAWTUCKET – Adaptive yoga instructor Robin Sousa begins her class by having her 16 participants shake their arms, first by their sides and then over their heads.

Residents of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, may recognize Alison Bologna as their local NBC news anchor and others as the owner of Shri Yoga Studio. Now, the multi-hyphenate Rhode Islander is adding developer to her resume.

It’s a late summer morning and the stately brick building that is Shri Studio Inc.’s new home is about to officially open for business. A worker tidies the roof. Down below, there are flower beds ready for plantings and the green irrigation system. “The goal is to be self-sustaining,” said Alison Bologna, Shri’s founder and…

Alison Bologna anchors WJAR-TV NBC 10’s “NBC 10 News Sunrise,” and when she is not on the air, she runs Shri Studio Inc., doing business as Shri Studio, Service Corps & Bark. The company includes Shri Studio, an outreach yoga studio; Shri Service Corps, a nonprofit arm that serves more than 8,500 residents every year…

Alison M. Bologna WJAR-TV NBC 10 Sunrise and Noon News co-anchor Shri Studio Inc., Shri Service Corps founder and executive director “Showing up” is a practice I’ve learned to manage, in both time and spirit, while anchoring the news at NBC 10 in the morning and running Shri late into the afternoons and evenings. Because…

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Alison leads the 8th-grade class in yoga. Alison Bologna and her Shri Studio combine yoga and smart snacking in a pilot program in Providence schools. She has created a nutrition bar, Shri Bark, that is sold in local grocery stores and that the students get as part of the class at Nathanael Greene Middle School.

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.