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Linda Lalita Winnick of Shakti Yoga in her Woodstock studio at 1685 Sawkill Road. (Tania Barricklo-Daily Freeman)

Jamie Leigh Reilly thinks its great that yoga is being practiced by more celebrities these days and that its seen as trendy and has even inspired fashion.

Whatever it takes to get people into a studio, she said, is indeed a good thing.

I love it because its going to get the masses in and help heal the planet, so, yeah, create a clothing line, put it on TV, Reilly said. Itll get people in the door. I say the more the merrier.

PHOTOS: Yoga in the Hudson Valley and the Catskills.

She teaches private and small group lessons in her 300-square-foot space at 190 Albany Ave. in Kingston and calls her practice Yoga With Jamie.

Reilly observed that there are more yoga studios (many of them chic, spacious and sunlit) in the Hudson Valley these daysa far cry from when she started yoga at the age of 16.

At that time, she recalled, there was only one studio, Bliss Yoga, in Woodstock, the place where she discovered her love for the ancient discipline born in India thousands of years ago.

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