04/01/2026
It's almost surreal, but April marks HYP's 20th year in flow, sculpt, breath & sweat.
It's no coincidence that our founding also parallels Dennis' initial Leukemia diagnosis and what has become a 20 year relentless locking of horns with the hell demon that is cancer.
The two (our founding and our cancer battle) are inexorably linked. Survival of one provided the impetus and motivation behind the other, as we recalibrated our lives, health and the well-being of our family in the aftermath of devastating illness.
And, while we were founded those 20 years ago, woman-owned and family-run, in response to crisis, in the end, that gentle downsize to a more intimate and sustainable way of being was the best decision of our lives.
We stand unchanged today, small and local, in the here and now of 2026 as a Mom and Pop enterprise.
We still proudly wear a small business mantle that represents the best and most upright of backbones. For us, Mom and Pop represents the very building blocks, human by human, of creating life's work and legacy.
In our decades later resilience, we also represent and uplift a spectrum of small local Studios.
We have thrived harmoniously together these many years in this shared movement space, despite elements bent on disrupting that mindful dynamic.
We see each other, collaborating in mutual work, love of practice and deep friendship. We uphold each other through demonstrable respect of and for each other's boundaries.
We rigorously center Ahimsa (non-harm, non-stealing), in caretaking each others resources, efforts and communities.
We speak to the truth of what we see in our community, even what that brings possible risk and retaliation.
This is the foundational, immutable sense of ethics and integrity that has informed our small Studio cohort, and so many like us, for decades.
This is us, in our perfectly imperfect state of Studio. And that is forever and always indelibly the point.
Walk the talk. Support small, woman, Black, q***r and minority owned businesses. When looking to make impact in a pain-filled world, it all starts local.
