Shephathiah Townsend, lifetime resident of New York City discusses her relationship with yoga and her experience of opening a yoga studio after COVID-19 restrictions eased up in Manhattan. This interview was edited and recorded on March 5th, 2023.

Shephathiah Townsend - NYCYSA Contributor Interview. NYC, NY. March 5, 2023.

Guitar Makers Rick Kelly and Cindy Hulej with Producer Mike the Mic hang out and chat with guests in the legendary Greenwich Village shop Carmine Street Guitars.

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Welcome to the back of the shop! Brush the saw dust off that stool over there and have a seat. Rick, Cindy and Mike talk all shop.

Welcome to the Back of the Shop Episode 1

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September 21, 2024 at St. John's Church in the Village, West Village NYC.
This is movement IV of William Anderson's folksong settings titled "Whistle, Daughter, Whistle."
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Folksongs movement IV "Whistle, Daughter, Whistle"- William Anderson

NYC Yoga Studios Archive (NYCYSA) is a digital archive meant to preserve the histories of yoga workers participating in the NYC Yoga industry in the years before, during, and following the COVID-19 pandemic (January 2020–July 2023). In March 2020, the World Health Organization commissioned that gathering in groups in indoor settings was one of the highest risk activities anyone could participate in, which almost immediately cast fitness venues as a COVID-19 hotspot. The circumstance of New York City being the United States’ most populous city per square mile meant that most yoga establishments in the five boroughs remained closed for in-person business for well over a year. According to my independent estimate taken in July 2023, 88 out of 193 studios permanently closed or relocated within the five boroughs of New York City alone during this time period.

Through an outreach campaign, the archive gathered spatial and narrative stories of how it felt for yoga teachers to work through the pandemic remotely or in-person; how the return to in-person work experience had been, and the COVID-inspired use of alternative urban spaces for yoga classes. The Omeka Classic archive and Google My Maps reiterations of it showcased each studio on an interactive, geographical map with indication of the open or closed status, live stream or on demand offerings and news media, along with any publicly available data and/or crowd-sourced contributed content in the format of textual documentation, drawings, lesson plans, images, audio or written interviews and reflections. In addition to the digital map exhibitions of what the NYC yoga community once was and its spatial response to COVID restrictions, the archive reconnects displaced yoga workers with each other and spotlights yoga’s continued culture of commitment toward the improvement of the communities that surround the physical studio and worldwide.

DISCLAIMER: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Read our privacy policy. This project was built under the supervision of the CUNY Graduate Center on 365 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York, NY 2022-2023.

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