Zoom is 2020s hottest yoga studio

Yoga looks different this week. Studios are empty, music is off, and instructors are often demonstrating forms with a couch on one side of them, a TV on another, and a laptop pointed at them from across the room.

As more of the US goes under quarantine to limit the spread of COVID-19, yoga studios and instructors have moved online to connect with clients and stay afloat. Yoga instructors say it’s a nice reprieve for students, giving them a chance to de-stress and maintain a degree of normalcy. But it’s also a critical offering for studios, many of which would otherwise see their income drop to zero, and for instructors, who are typically contractors and are therefore at risk of being overlooked by unemployment protections.

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