![Photo by Leah Millis • leah.millis@startribune.com Minneapolis, Minn. June 12, 2011--]Between 100-200 people practiced yoga with the Gorilla Yogis in the middle of Lyndale Ave. where it intersects Lake St. The group, started by Nan Arundel and Jes Rosenberg travels around the Twin Cities to practice yoga in the "urban jungle", outside of the studio. They joined up with Open Streets, an event that closed Lyndale south from motorized traffic from 22nd to 42nd streets from 10am-2](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/UZEWRMAOO36D4GNOAK3G3A5AOM.jpg?&w=1080)
They have no bananas, but what the founders of Gorilla Yogis do have is a cool mission to free yoga from fancy studios by offering no-frills classes to the masses on public streets. Inspired by the larger "guerrilla yoga" movement in other cities, the Twin Cities group was founded by local yoga revolutionaries Nan Gane Arundel and Jessica Rosenberg. Hundreds have flocked to their impromptu yoga classes to practice their downward-facing dog pose in parking lots, baseball fields and even outside First Avenue nightclub. The monthly gatherings are free but donations are collected for assorted charities. Talk about enlightened. gorillayogis.com
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