Meet Lori and Jeremy Lowell | Co-Founders, Drishti Beats Yoga Teacher Training and Drishti Beats Music

We had the good fortune of connecting with Lori and Jeremy Lowell and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Lori and Jeremy, can you talk to us a bit about the social impact of your business?
Our business is based on Yoga Teacher Trainings and Music. The journey that our students embark on through the Yoga Teacher Training provides them an opportunity to live a more yogic lifestyle, become knowledgeable in the practice and study of yoga, and understand how to shift into a more spiritual and mindful lifestyle. It is life changing for them based on the life skills they develop and spiritual practice. In addition, once the training is complete our students are able to teach sound, effective and knowledgeable yoga classes. The music production and performance aspect of our business is we believe that movement/yoga to music takes one to a higher level of consciousness and we provide this experience through our music and classes. This helps shift, change, and affect our communities for the better, therefore helps shift the world for the better.

Alright, so for those in our community who might not be familiar with your business, can you tell us more?
Our business is art, and our art is business. 36 years of marriage; Jeremy starting as a dentist and Lori a dancer, musician, and strong acumen for business, we have created a side by side working and loving relationship. In 1987 we opened our first Dental Practice at the ages of 27. By the time we were 33 we had three children, a thriving dental practice, and became fitness club owners. From 1995-2021 we continued to thrive, raised our three children, and operated 11 Gold’s Gyms in Northern Virginia and Wisconsin. We taught fitness, yoga, ran administration for both the dental practice and the gyms and continued to thrive and grow. With all of this, Lori danced with various modern dance companies, and traveled the world with her mother Flory Jagoda and family preserving the music of the Sephardic Jews through song and storytelling. Lori’s mother, Flory Jagoda, is a world renowned Sephardic folk musician and is best know for her music composition Ocho Kandelikas, a ladino Hanukkah song. In 2006 we uprooted our family, kept their fitness businesses, sold their house and dental practice, and moved to Aspen, Colorado to experience a fresh, and environmentally conscious lifestyle. We decided to live our dream of being in the mountains. Since then, they reside part time in Aspen and part time In Northern Virginia to continue to run their fitness businesses. Our own yoga journey began in 2002 and from 2006-2014 we embarked on teacher trainings all over the world in order to develop our own Yoga Teacher Training and cultivate our practice and yogic lifestyle beliefs. We provide live Drishti Beats teacher trainings which commenced in 2014 and in March of 2020, due to COVID, we brought our live Drishti Beats Online Yoga Teacher Training platform to the world via online, zoom, and one on one meetings, as well as continual classes for their students. We immediately went global and have trained and are currently training students from all over the world. We are aligned with Yoga Alliance and provide accredited 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings, workshops, and create Yoga and Music Festivals. Our music group, Drishti Beats produces downtempo electronic chill music and collaborates with our live musicians for our live music yoga classes at music and yoga festivals globally. Our music can be found on all music platforms. We have curated our own upcoming Drishti Beats Yoga and Music Festival, July 8-10, 2022 in Snowmass Village, CO which is three days of yoga and music. What sets us apart is our creative spirit in conjunction with a strong business acumen and or constant desire to innovate and drive new ideas. We are risk takers and we dig deep in all of our projects, endeavors and visions. We stay fresh and current in fitness and yoga. We are constantly re-inventing ourselves, creating new initiatives, projects, and business ventures. We understand life balance. We understand the importance of a loving relationship and how to work together as a team and as a couple. All of our children and their spouses are involved in our businesses in some capacity. From dentistry to fitness to yoga, to music, everyone plays a part. We have overcome our business challenges through COVID with grace and we measure our success by the difference we make in people’s lives through the experiences that we provide. We work with ease and when it’s not easy it’s still fun. We like to fix things. We find humor in our challenges and always look at the positive side of things. When something doesn’t go our way, we learn and grow from it and do not walk away without our best effort. We want the world to know that our “why” is “to serve” and we spend endless hours educating our students, co-workers, staff, and work endlessly to create amazing environments and experiences for those we serve. Through this we can learn from our partners, co-workers and students which create symbiotic relationships. Music is the master, and we produce music for our yoga classes to enhance one’s experience. We believe that yoga/movement to music takes one to a higher level of consciousness. What sets us apart is that we create joy, passion, and care to those we serve and work with and make sure of it. Biggest lesson: when difficulties or challenges present themselves, stay calm, it will pass. Listen! Notice! Set yourself free and always find joy even in the most difficult moments. We want the world to know that Drishti Beats is a lifestyle, a conscious and loving community, a way of positive thinking, and a cool vibe for which to live by. Drishti is a sanskrit term that means a focused and concentrated gaze. Our motto is: Where your drishti goes your energy flows.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
Well living in Aspen, Colorado it’s easy to provide continual memorable experiences. If it’s our best friend she is very fit, loves to bike, hike and is adventurous.

Day one we would take it easy as our house it at 8300 feet. We would start day one as acclimation day. Hit the coffee shop called “local” and sit outside. Head to the “W” hotel in Aspen and hear some vibes usually played by DJ Lo-G or Ryan Golbus. Would keep it to club soda for the first day to keep any headaches from creeping up, due to the altitude. Then hit an easy dinner at the sushi bar at Kinichi Sushi Restaurant. Would make it an early evening. At home early to watch the sky and mountains change color for sunset.

Day two – to keep the altitude acclimation going we would take a drive 3 miles up our mountain to Kaney Ranch (our friend’s home) and sit on their yoga deck for some meditation and an easy yoga flow. The view is vast, and you can see all the way from Snowmass to Aspen. Come home for some Nespresso coffee and a light breakfast. We would then head to hunter creek trail and do an easy hike around all the river flow and waterfalls. Then head for an organic, healthy lunch at Spring Cafe. From there we would go home, sit on the deck looking over the mountains and chat. That evening we would head back into town for a beautiful dinner at Cafe D’Angelo.

Day three – Go into Snowmass to King Yoga for a yoga class in the morning. Freshen up, hit the Little Nell Hotel for brunch and head up Aspen Mountain on the Gondola for light hiking and maybe drinks/snack up top. Once we come back down, we would walk the town do a little shopping and head over to the Art Museum to see whatever exhibit is showing. For dinner we would stay in and cook.

Day four – Take a full day guided 2-3 level white water rafting trip with lunch included. Come home in the afternoon, freshen up and head out to Pyramid Bistro and hang in the bookstore below and have a vegan/organic easy dinner. See what movie is playing at the Isis theatre or hit whatever music is happening at Wheeler Opera House, or Jazz Aspen or Belly Up.

Day five – Sleep a little late. Head down to at the town of Basalt on our bikes and have lunch at the Riverside Grill on the river outside and then walk the town of Basalt. Come home and get a yoga stretch workout in led by Lori or Jeremy in our downstairs gym and get ready to head to the Caribou Club for dinner, drinks, and music.

Day six – Drive and park at Highlands and bike up Maroon Bells. Take a picnic lunch, find a great space to sit and enjoy the amazing views and then either bike or take the bus down. Head into Snowmass to Venga Venga for some margaritas, music, and some Mexican fare where the guacamole is epic.

Day seven – Bike up (depending on how we are feeling) Castle Creek Road to the Pinecreek Cookhouse for lunch. Hit an afternoon yoga class either in Aspen or Snowmass, come home, freshen up and decide how broke we are from partying and playing all week and what kind of ridiculous money, once again, we want to spend on dinner. We would pick somewhere great!

Day 8 – Light fare in the morning and head out our front door and hike up in Wildcat ranch and take in some beautiful views before we depart for the 6 minute drive to the airport to fly home!

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I want to dedicate this story to my mother, Flory Jagoda and her documentary: Flory’s Flame. Her story as a holocaust survivor, preserver and “keeper of the flame” of Sepharidic Music taught me the power of music and storytelling. She taught me that it is not how many people you teach and perform for but the quality of what you present and touching the lives of those in front of you. She taught me the power of practice and the importance of the woven fabric of music and sounds, where they come from, and how they evolve. She taught me that “no matter what…. continue”.

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