A ten-space studio on Gertrude Street.

Almira Vance opened Rowan after six years teaching in London and Melbourne studios.

She wanted a studio small enough that a teacher could still correct everyone’s form in a fifty-minute class — which is why Rowan has stayed at ten spaces a class since day one, even as the timetable filled out around it. Tomas Reyes and Almira Sol joined in the years after, each building out a discipline the studio didn’t teach yet: reformer strength and jump board work, then slow flow yoga and mobility.