On Saturday, I visited another terrific new business establishment put on this earth to serve the community. Apollo Yoga is a newly built out yoga studio simply designed to bring health and wellness to the area. It's a non-competitive environment, but still challenging enough to inspire your inner work(out) horse! The owner/instructor at the 10 am Saturday class is a business associate/client turned friend I have known since 1982! He is Mark Lilienthal, and I first met him 27 years ago, when I was in an entirely different business! At that time he was a very as far away from yogafied as anyone man could be, and then around 1994 I sold his first home. THEN about 2 years ago, he was good enough to let me help him sell another house for him, and find him the house he calls home today. Now in this venture, I am finally his client, and because of the nicely built out space, and his focus on his students (ME!) it is a welcomed turn!

Apollo Yoga is located at the Pan-Macedonian Studies Center at 149-14 14th Ave. Its the entire first floor, and the space is devoted to yoga at all levels. The class I took was an all level class. I took the class after a 4 mile run and it was challenging enough but manageable for all. Mark really focused on each student. I have taken a number of yoga and yogaesque classes, and sometimes there is like NO attention, and sometimes its just over the top. This was a perfect blend.

The studio has a host of well known instructors, Pam holds a great bootcamp class there, and Carmella Frattasi specializes in healing, restorative yoga. Jolie wants to take a teen yoga class beginning in March. I wish Mark and Apollo Yoga much shanti, and the best of luck in this venture, the location's great, parking is easy, and I urge us all to frequent our local businesses, to keep the chi and the money flowing locally and keep good businesses in our area. Successful businesses maintain good neighborhoods everywhere and like the Energized Realty Group and RE/MAX Millennium, here is another business that proves that they LOVE their community, and that means YOU!

Please visit their webiste apolloyogaftc.com