For BodyPositive Yoga

JYLL HUBBARD-SALK, Urban Asanas, 843 Sterling Pl., Crown Heights; urbanasanas.com

jyll hubbard-salk taught yoga for over a decade before opening her own Crown Heights studio, Urban Asanas. Her intention was to make the practice accessible to people of all races, sexualities, and body types—filling a gap she noticed in the often exclusionary yoga scene. And she has succeeded, according to her client of two years stylist Rachael Wang, who says Hubbard-Salk has “created a uniquely inclusive and body-positive space that feels welcome to all.” Each 75-minute class ($12 each or $150 for an unlimited monthly membership) at Urban Asanas starts with meditation, active stretching, and warming up the hands, wrists, and feet before transitioning into a hatha- or vinyasa-flow series. The studio also holds two weekly community classes that are donation based. Wang says, “I am the strongest and most flexible I have ever been, and the

meditation and breathwork she teaches has given me tools to manage my stress.” While classes have moved online during the pandemic, “Jyll is amazingly attentive,” according to Wang, “and somehow the transition to virtual training has not limited her teaching in any way.”