Avenue Calgary — January 2018

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WORKOUT

Jennifer

Mehalko

With a background in interior

design, this popular local spin

and yoga teacher and fitness

enthusiast has branched out

into clothing design with the

activewear label Parts + Labor.

A

s she walks into the studio to start
her class, yoga teacher Jennifer
Mehalko pauses to dim the lights.
“Tonight,” she says, “things are
going to get a little spicy.”
It’s an unconventional beginning for a
yoga practice but Mehalko’s regular students
have learned to expect the unorthodox. A full-
time interior designer and part-time fashion
designer, Mehalko also teaches yoga several
evenings a week at Inglewood’s Junction
9 Yoga & Pilates, where she’s known for her

BY Christina Frangou
PHOTOGRAPHY BY
Vanessa DeZutter