Special Recognition For Our Work
Shri Awards
& Recognitions
Shri Yoga's innovative classes and unique approach to wellness have been highly recognized, resulting in various awards applauding its commitment to fostering community well-being.
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National Ancor Community Builder Award 2024 (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Person of the Year, Pawtucket Hall of Fame, 2023
Fogarty Center "Janet Almeida Community Inclusion Award," 2022
Pawtucket Senior Center (Leon Mathieu) Community Award, 2021
Myra Kraft Community MVP Awards | New England Patriots Foundation | Alison Bologna, 2020
Looking Upwards "Making the Difference" Community Partner Award, May 2019
The ARC of Bristol County, Community Award, 2017
Person of the Year, The Pawtucket Foundation, 2015
The Rhode Island Small Business Entrepreneurial Woman To Watch Award, 2014
Rhode Island Justice Award, nominated and awarded by RI Attorney General Peter Kilmartin, 2014
Rally for Recovery Advocacy Award, 2014
Rhode Island Monthly Magazine's Best Yoga Outreach, 2013
The Women of Excellence Community Award, on behalf of The Women's Center of Rhode Island, 2013
"Wise Woman" award from the National Organization of Italian American Women, 2013
The Volunteer of the Year Award from LIFE, Inc., 2013
Rhode Island Monthly Magazine Best New Yoga Studio, North, 2012
Providence Business News' 40 Under 40, Class of 2011
Community Award from ARC of Blackstone Valley
Special Recognition Award from the Children's Shelter of Blackstone Valley
Community Award from Venture Community Services
Sturbridge MA
Community Award from the Pawtucket School Department
Off-air, Ch. 10 Alison Bologna builds programs that help thousands of Rhode Islanders
PAWTUCKET – Adaptive yoga instructor Robin Sousa begins her class by having her 16 participants shake their arms, first by their sides and then over their heads.
From Yoga Instructor To Citizen Developer
Residents of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, may recognize Alison Bologna as their local NBC news anchor and others as the owner of Shri Yoga Studio. Now, the multi-hyphenate Rhode Islander is adding developer to her resume.
Officials Celebrate Former Conant Thread Mill as New Mixed-Use Site
PAWTUCKET – There’s a new jewel in the city, and it comes in the form of a 140-year-old-plus mill building that has been remodeled into a beautiful center for residents to “live, work and play.”
After Opening Yoga Studio, She Has Stretched For More
It’s a late summer morning and the stately brick building that is Shri Studio Inc.’s new home is about to officially open for business. A worker tidies the roof. Down below, there are flower beds ready for plantings and the green irrigation system. “The goal is to be self-sustaining,” said Alison Bologna, Shri’s founder and…
Shri Yoga Opening Celebrates Passion, Purpose, Presence In Pawtucket
PAWTUCKET – Years of hard work to preserve an old mill and turn it into 15,000 square feet of thriving modern space came to a climax with Alison Bologna’s ribbon-cutting ceremony at Shri Yoga Studio on Monday.
Pine Street Complex New Home To Shri Yoga, Affordable Housing
PAWTUCKET – It’s an exciting time for Shri Yoga Studio in Pawtucket, which has moved to its new location at 390 Pine St. The property of 15,000 square feet has undergone some substantial changes since it was purchased by Shri founder and owner Alison Bologna in 2020 from Dave and Diane Sheilby at Tallman Enterprises/Stretch Products.
Shri Development Revitalizes The Commuter Rail Neighborhood
It started in 2010 when Alison Bologna, a Pawtucket resident and local news anchor at NBC 10, decided to open a yoga studio in one of our empty downtown storefronts. She named it “Shri Studio” with the intention of bringing light (the definition of “Shri” in Sanskrit) into the district by offering low cost and free yoga outreach classes to students who otherwise wouldn’t have access.
Grant Funds Fill Hole As Shri Studio Expansion Continues
PAWTUCKET – By this time next year, the new space for Alison Bologna’s Shri Studio should be fully ready to go, aided by a $100,000 grant from The Centreville Bank Charitable Foundation to support build-out of the facility at 390 Pine St. near the city’s future new train station.The $100,000 grant is among 37 grants that Centreville Bank awarded as part of its fourth-quarter 2021 round of grants. The money will go toward the affordable housing and community hub space being developed at 390 Pine St.
Train Station Project Moving Along; Shri Project Commencing
PAWTUCKET – Four Pawtucket projects have started, progressed, or been completed within the Conant Thread District around the coming Pawtucket/Central Falls Commuter Rail Station since the district was established in May of 2019.
Five Questions With: Alison Bologna
Alison Bologna anchors WJAR-TV NBC 10’s “NBC 10 News Sunrise,” and when she is not on the air, she runs Shri Studio Inc., doing business as Shri Studio, Service Corps & Bark. The company includes Shri Studio, an outreach yoga studio; Shri Service Corps, a nonprofit arm that serves more than 8,500 residents every year…
Sun Salute – Shri Yoga’s Sunrise Yoga
“Shri Yoga’s outdoor summer sunrise yoga class in the parking lot of its new location has created a new vision for Pawtucket”
There are many ways that folks have attempted to maintain their equilibrium of the mind and body during these stressful times of the coronavirus pandemic.
Finding A Center Of Balance In A Rapidly Changing World
PAWTUCKET – The new watchword of Shri Yoga, which is dedicated to light and prosperity, may soon become “expect the unexpected,” striking a pose of flexibility and nimbleness, with the ability to pivot with the best of entrepreneurs in Rhode Island.
Threading The Needle
PAWTUCKET — Imagine a future where Pawtucket is a bustling urban center; where dining, shopping, entertainment and recreation entertainment opportunities abound; where residents commute to good-paying jobs in Boston or Providence — or even walk to those jobs in their Pawtucket neighborhood.
Council Puts Train Zoning On Hold Amid Call For 10 Percent Affordable Units
PAWTUCKET – Creation of a new zoning district around the city’s coming train station is too important to approve it in a “half-baked” form, say City Council members.
The council, at its meeting last Wednesday, April 10, heard lengthy testimony from advocates who want to see a 10 percent minimum requirement for affordable housing in the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) zone in the Conant Thread District around a coming commuter rail station off Main Street and Pine Street.
Showing Up Means More Than Putting In The Time
Alison M. Bologna WJAR-TV NBC 10 Sunrise and Noon News co-anchor Shri Studio Inc., Shri Service Corps founder and executive director “Showing up” is a practice I’ve learned to manage, in both time and spirit, while anchoring the news at NBC 10 in the morning and running Shri late into the afternoons and evenings. Because…
Bologna’s Shri Bark is Now a Key Nutritional Hit in RI Schools
The story is unlikely. The growing success is inspiring.
For the TV newswoman, her effort to help children, veterans and other members of the community is a journey dedicated to transforming the lives of individuals to find a healthier and more satisfied life.
Shri Studio, Urban Revitalization Yoga
The goal was to allow the space to feel wide open for when classes grew | room dividers are built from plumbing pipe and fishing line and $10 Ikea shade panels | the dividers are on wheels to accommodate special populations of people | light fixtures give the studio space a warm glow, set on dimmers | the altar in the center of the room is actually a modern Dutch dresser found in the Rhode Island Antique Mall in Pawtucket | the statues above the alter from the Berkshires | and the Shiva statue from her sister’s travels in Bali
Finals Stretch
Pawtucket Students Able To Alleviate Stress And Learn Fitness Techniques With New After-school Yoga Program
Alison Bologna Leads Shri Yoga’s Expansion
Alison Bologna founder of Shri Yoga believes in taking skillful action and making the community a better place.“It’s about how you treat one another, how you take care of yourself and your community,” Bologna says.
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Fogarty Center "Janet Almeida Community Inclusion Award," 2022
Pawtucket Senior Center (Leon Mathieu) Community Award, 2021
Myra Kraft Community MVP Awards | New England Patriots Foundation | Alison Bologna, 2020
Looking Upwards "Making the Difference" Community Partner Award, May 2019
The ARC of Bristol County, Community Award, 2017
Person of the Year, The Pawtucket Foundation, 2015
The Rhode Island Small Business Entrepreneurial Woman To Watch Award, 2014
Rhode Island Justice Award, nominated and awarded by RI Attorney General Peter Kilmartin, 2014
Rally for Recovery Advocacy Award, 2014
Rhode Island Monthly Magazine's Best Yoga Outreach, 2013
The Women of Excellence Community Award, on behalf of The Women's Center of Rhode Island, 2013
"Wise Woman" award from the National Organization of Italian American Women, 2013
The Volunteer of the Year Award from LIFE, Inc., 2013
Rhode Island Monthly Magazine Best New Yoga Studio, North, 2012
Providence Business News' 40 Under 40, Class of 2011
Community Award from ARC of Blackstone Valley
Special Recognition Award from the Children's Shelter of Blackstone Valley
Community Award from Venture Community Services
Sturbridge MA
Community Award from the Pawtucket School Department