Classes migrated to Zoom, at reduced rates and even offered freely, as people stayed home through a government-mandated lockdown and waves of coronavirus transmission. While most commercial activity on the square was able to continue, a business such as Ms. "I had a dance teacher at college who turned me on to yoga," she said, likening the practice to "a meditation for the body." She opened the center in another building in Amagansett Square in 2001, moving to the present space six years ago.Ī yoga center's survival through a pandemic is no small feat. The Roslyn native trained to become a teacher in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1990. "It's brand new and beautiful!" said Jolie Parcher, the center's founder. The entrance is now on the south side, facing the square's parking lot. The center has been reconfigured, Amagansett Square's management having partitioned the building to accommodate a new retail space, but features a large room as well as a smaller space and a reception area. The center's summer schedule, which includes classes at the reopened center, outdoors on the square, at Scoville Hall on Meeting House Lane, and online, goes into effect on Saturday. Chanting will begin at 5:30 in the renovated center's big room, with sitar by Gian Carlo Feleppa and harmoniums played by instructors. The gathering will bless the new shala - Sanskrit for home, and in this context a place for yoga practitioners to practice and grow - starting at 5 p.m. The sangha - a Sanskrit word meaning association or community - is in a celebratory mood, the reopening coinciding with the lifting of most Covid-19 regulations and the long pandemic's apparent decline. When the sangha gathers Friday at Mandala Yoga Center for Healing Arts at Amagansett Square, it will observe both the center's reopening at its renovated space and its 20th anniversary.