Life Alive Opens Harvard Square Location in Collaboration With Down Under Yoga | Eater Boston

"Founded in 2004, Down Under School of Yoga has grown from friends teaching in a parish hall into a multi-location school offering yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda programming, and it’s partnering with Life Alive to bring classes and wellness programming into the Harvard Square collaborative (with another location planned for the South End). The school faced public criticism over restrictive non-compete and non-disparagement clauses, prompting director Justine Wiltshire Cohen to apologize and revise contracts; since then Down Under says it did away with the non-compete, created a teacher leadership council, invited faculty to write their own contracts, and now treats teachers as employees with access to healthcare, sick days, parental leave, retirement, seasonal meetings, and a stated commitment to retain all 80 teachers and 15 managers during the pandemic." - Rachel Leah Blumenthal