Yoga Studio Locations
The location of a Yoga studio will most likely be in a neighborhood that was once blighted and shunned by the good citizens of the city. Where drug dealers and thugs ran amok, the area is now swarming with Yuppies, BoBos (Bourgeois Bohemians) and Yogis with their brightly colored Yoga mats. The purifying effect of the Yoga scene and Yoga itself has the power to run even the most hardened criminal out of the area. The progression of an area of hell to Yoga Heaven happens in the following way:
Phase 1: Area has decayed into lawlessness and uninhabitabilty. Booze, drugs, random killing, rapes, muggings, chaos and mayhem are all occurring here day and night. There is a great possibility that if you happen to wander into the area, you will be murdered.
Phase 2: Artists looking for large, cheap space discover the area and establish art studios there. A ‘scene’ develops and gets written up in Art magazines. The articles are faxed or emailed free to urban developers. Some artists get killed, mugged or raped but this eventually tapers off. The Yuppies and Bo Bos drive down to look at the freaks, um, I mean Artists. Some get out of their SUVs to sit briefly in one of the bohemian coffee shops or bars. They make sure to leave the area before it gets dark. They feel quite adventurous doing this. Watch for words like “transitional area” in the local papers to know that you are in Phase 2.
Phase 3: Hearing about the artists and the courageous Yuppies and fellow Bo Bos, the developers sense that the area is safe enough now for development. A police presence starts to materialize. The artists are no longer being killed, mugged or raped but the homeless have been carted over to homeless shelters into the next neighborhood.
Phase 4: The developers test the water by fixing up a couple of storefronts. These are quickly turned into trendy night clubs, boutiques and restaurants. The artists start to hang out in these trendy night clubs, boutiques and restaurants while they wax nostalgically how the neighborhood is being sold out. Starbucks establishes a beach head here and slowly drives the original bohemian coffee shops out of business.
Boarded up townhouses will suddenly be renovated and lived in by the Yuppies and Bo Bos while driving out the original denizens and squatters of the area. Those fixing up the townhouses will call themselves “Urban Pioneers”. To the other people who live in the area or have been driven out, they will be called “Yuppie Gentrification Scumbags”.
The area will become a "neighborhood" and suddenly have an actual name attached to it. This will be a bit hard to get used to because the area has always been referred to as “that hell-hole of existence down there”. Watch for the word “gentrification” in the local papers to know that you are in Phase 4.
Phase 5: Yoga studios are established on every other block (usually next to the Starbucks). The artists move out because they can no longer afford to live here. Condos will be built with a minimum price of $500,000 per unit.
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