Down Under Yoga has come a long way since its early days in the bowels of the Newton Parish Hall.

The group, which eventually moved to its own space in Newton in 2010, just opened a brand new studio on Beacon Street in Brookline late last week.

The Brookline location shares the same name as the original, but this space will feature more classes from some of the most famous yoga teachers in the world, including Patricia Walden.

She may not be a household name for most, but in the yoga world, Walden is revered. Her Yoga for Beginners DVD is one of the best-selling yoga videos of all time, and one of her former students called her the greatest yoga teacher in the world in a Time Magazine feature.

Shell headline a collection of more than 30 teachers at the studio, which will feature classes in all three of the major yoga traditions. Having Walden, who studied under B. K. S. Iyengar, the originator of his own style of yoga, as well as other teachers who have learned from the greats, gives Down Under an impressive roster of talent.

To have a studio that represents the three major lineages directly from India is something we really want to excite people about, said Justine Wiltshire Cohen, studio director.

Walden has been teaching one class at the Newton location of the studio, and she was hesitant at first to join the Down Under crowd.

I had mixed feelings because Ive never worked for anybody. Ive never done anything but teach yoga, she said.

She used to have a studio, but gave it up to teach at St. Marys Church in Cambridge.

Although she liked her home at the church, she did pine for a place that had props for yoga and was warm in the winter months.

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New yoga studio offers three styles, big names