PERFECT HEARTS YOGA: A Room With a View Story by Sarah Gordon
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After a tough past year, 2021 is proving to be an exciting one for Perfect Hearts Yoga. Belinda Llewellyn is thrilled to announce her business has relocated from its former location in a garage behind The Juice Truck on First Avenue to its new larger home on Bayview Street. “We love the new space with its big bright views. The studio is larger and we now have a bathroom! We used to have to use The Juice Truck’s facilities, which we couldn't even use after COVID-19 hit,” Belinda says. She admits it was emotional letting go of the First Avenue studio that people had grown attached to, but the new second-floor location that overlooks the village, the mountains, and also offers a waterfront view quickly won her over. Renovations have transformed the studio into a light, airy space with a new touch of retro chic.
Belinda says with a laugh, “This is a wonderful new perspective and ambience from our previous alley vista.” 26
Perfect Hearts was heavily impacted by the pandemic; it had to close for seven months last year. Belinda comments, ‘When we were allowed to open again in July before the second wave of COVID-19, like many businesses with which we sympathize, we were only able to admit less than fifty percent of our regular attendance per class. At the same time, some people were understandably nervous to attend classes. It was a very difficult time for the studio. We gave online classes a shot, but they didn’t take off.”
“With the opening of the new studio, we are now focussing on in-person classes, which we have all been missing so much.” Belinda Llewellyn Belinda is accustomed to dealing with adversity. In 2007 she was hit by a car, which sent her flying across two lanes into oncoming traffic. She landed on her face resulting in lost teeth and a shattered ankle. She spent the better part of two months on the couch followed by a few
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