International Yoga Day 2019: Free Yoga In Brookline, Despite Rain

BROOKLINE, MA — Rainy skies and a wet field didn't dampen Brookline’s 4th annual International Day of Yoga celebration, but it did move it indoors this year.

The yoga class took place at Brookline High’s Schluntz gym on Thursday, June 20 at dusk.

Instructors from local yoga studios, Down Under School of Yoga, Coolidge Yoga and Yoga Hub, again were accompanied by Josh Knowles on violin as they walked around and helped offer advice or adjusted students - some completely new to yoga, others at it for years.

Each year for the past four years, Brookline joins other towns and communities across the world and organizes a free yoga class as a way to celebrate some 5,000 years of yoga.

The first International Day of Yoga was declared by the United Nations in December 2014 and organized in 2015 involved more than two billion participants across 192 countries. The day is actually, June 21, the first day of Summer, though Brookline's department of Health sponsored it the day before.

This is the second time Brookline treated yoga-goers to well-known Knowles. The violinist is also a Berklee College of Music trained singer/songwriter and composer based in Boston. He's performed at the Boston Opera House and the Lincoln Center in New York. He currently resides as a Community Luminary at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where he performs regularly.

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