Atha. The first word of the Yoga Sutras — now, here it begins. Everything we make is a format for that one moment, wherever the room happens to be.

What we know, we know from rooms: teaching, training teachers, running retreats. What comes out of that isn’t a catalogue of sessions. It’s knowing people — what they take in, how much is too much, what’s still there a week later.

Judith Mila Durante founded Studio Atha. Twenty years in bodywork and teaching, and a background in creative production and screenwriting, mainly for cinema and Red Bull Media House. She creates the formats.

The transfer. Taking what happens in a room and making it hold somewhere it normally doesn’t. A meeting floor. A lobby at eight in the morning. An ordinary Tuesday. It started at WunderLocke in 2021.

Curation is the work. The formats exist, taught for years. What’s decided each time: which sessions, how intense, what level, how the room is set, whose name is on it. A session has an arc, a day has one, a whole programme has one.

A network, not a staff. We don’t send whoever is free. Yoga, somatics, breathwork, fascia work — booked per project and briefed on the place, the group and the day. Choosing them is the part a house can’t do for itself. Operations too, by people whose trade that is. One partner, end to end.

The creative side. Half of a session is where it happens: light at that hour, scent, ritual, the thing someone carries home.

A room is quiet in a different way at the end than it was at the start. That’s the work.