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Kyle Kurlick/Special to The Commercial Appeal Olivia Lomax (left) and Charlene Gaffney are the partners in the Delta Groove Yoga studio that will open April 1 in Overton Square. Besides yoga, massage and other healing arts, they will offer a Cosmic Coconut juice and snack shop and other boutique offerings.

When Give Yoga on Mendenhall closed in October, its teachers and devotees thought theyd all scatter to different places.

It was such a beautiful, tight-knit community, said Olivia Lomax, Give Yogas former managing partner.

But now, they are looking forward to working together again in a new business with expanded offerings.

It started in December, when Lomax was invited to participate in the two-week holiday pop-up market MemShop in Overton Square.

Lomax partnered with the organic juice and snack bar Cosmic Coconut, which has a storefront in Sanderlin Center, served juices and held yoga classes, and called it Cosmic Collective.

The response was impressive, she said.

I kept getting texts and e-mails about how wonderful MemShop was and would I teach there. They were constant and overwhelming, said Lomax, 35, of East Memphis.

During MemShop, Lomax was introduced to massage therapist Charlene Gaffney. I attended some of her classes, and she got some (massage) work. It was almost like we fell in love, said Gaffney, 32, of Midtown.

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