Gyms, hair stylists get Hermosa Beach City okay to work outdoors
Instructor Natasha Snow Needles has students begin in child’s pose at a SoHo Yoga class on the beach in downtown Hermosa. Photo The sun was shining and the late-morning wind was gentle, still making up its mind about which way to blow, when a dozen or so bodies laid their collective heads to rest on mats laid out on the beach near downtown Hermosa. Welcome to yoga class in the time of the coronavirus. The class was offered by Hermosa Beach’s SoHo Yoga as part of a new program that allows gyms and other fitness businesses to move their operations into parking lots, sidewalks, parks and beaches. SoHo, a popular yoga studio located on Hermosa Avenue just a block away from the class’s 14th Street location, was among the first to take advantage. Gov. Gavin Newsom last week required gyms to close in-door operations, but scientists generally think there is a lower-risk of transmitting COVID-19 outside than indoors, and many businesses have shifted their operations. While restaurants have long offered al fresco dining, workouts can take a bit more ingenuity. On Tuesday morning, SoHo co-owner Natasha Snow Needles led two, hour-long classes, a Power Flow and a Sweat N’ Sculpt. As…
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