Surrendering
Revitalize Bodywork Studio will permanently close and bankrupt after my evening class on Tuesday August 31, 2021.
I have weighed and measured this decision for months. It was excruciating to make this determination in every way. But as we are $21,000 behind in rent, have had very little to no federal or grant assistance, and attendance is dropping again......I just don't know how we can dig out of this deep Covid hole.
All I do know is that I can no longer carry this load, it has taken a toll on me in many ways. I need to rest, grieve, and heal all the systems in my body.
**I will be shutting off everyone's automated payments by the end of the evening.
**I will be deleting everyone's stored credit/debit card information out of the Mindbody systerm by the end of the weekend.
**We will not take any more yoga payments from now until 8/31.
**If you have a 1 on 1 appointment with myself or Jessica between now and September 2nd those appointments will stay in place. There are only a few more appointment spaces between now and then, if you need one.
**So please attend any class you can between now and then for free. Please take a free book with you from the library.
The studio was created with my intention for it to be a safe place for the community to come to in order to learn, grow and heal together. It was a place to be embraced for who you are, as you are. I feel I provided that and deeply enjoyed doing so. It was my honor to meet and work with all of you, even indirectly.
Had it not been for expanding into the larger studio space, quadrupling monthly expenses just 2 months before Covid changed the world, we would still be moving forward. But life changed and we must all change with it, and we have. We are doing the best we can with what we have. We will all find a way to move through this in our own unique way.
So What is Next???
I don't know. Honestly, I am heart broken. I need some time to heal.
I am not the studio space. My work is not the studio space. There may be other opportunities for me to do the work I do in the community again, but I am not sure what that looks like.
If you would like to stay in touch and see what Next might be, feel free to email me at lorel.stevens@gmail.com or friend me personally on Facebook or Instagram.
If you would like to connect with the amazing teachers on my staff, feel free to connect with them on Facebook or Instagram as well.
I will deeply miss each and everyone of you. Some of you I have seen almost daily for the last four years. I will never forget you, even if we don't see each other again. I am very grateful for our time together and all the beautiful ways you have lifted me up. I have seen all the ways that you show up for the others in the studio space with you, and have been so thankful for that.
I wish you all the very best and more. I wish you love, light, healing and peace. Please take good care of yourselves and each other.
I hope you take me up on taking free classes from now until 8/31 so we can close the studio space together in community and love.
Be well, my dear friends, until we meet again.
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