Dorchester Times: Beer Yoga? It's A New Sensation In Dorchester

Monday, September 10, 2018

Beer Yoga? It's A New Sensation In Dorchester

Beer yoga? Yes, it really exists -- and it has a loyal following in and around Dorchester.

And the next beer yoga session is tonight (Monday) at City Slicker's starting at 7 p.m. A $5 fee will be donated to the Dorchester Volunteer Fire Department.

Led by Julie Holly, the owner and operator of The Well in Dorchester, beer yoga is exactly what its name implies: a yoga session in which participants have a beer close by or in hand throughout.

Sessions are conducted once a month -- most months -- at City Slickers in downtown Dorchester, in the newly renovated area of the restaurant and under a ballroom light.

Yoga, of course, is a group of physical, mental and spiritual practices or disciplines, all of which originated in ancient India.

Despite yoga's popularity, it sounds a little intimidating to most of us, so why not add a beer and lighten the mood?

Not only are these yoga sessions good for the body, but good for the soul as Holly has donated the session fees to worthy causes.

From September 2017 through the May session, nearly $800 was raised for organizations such as the DVFD, Billy Graham Crisis Response Team, Omaha Children's Hopital, Operation Everyone Under the Tree, The Bay, Water for Haiti, York Adopt A Pet, and Saint Jude's Children's Hospital.

The Well's Facebook page contains further information.

In the meantime, if you need to get your stretch on throughout the summer, The Well offers three yoga classes every week. Contact Julie Holly at 402.418.1838 for days and times of her yoga classes.

3 comments:

AnonymousMay 11, 2018 at 9:15 PM
Very cooooooooool story and human interest piece!
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AnonymousSeptember 10, 2018 at 10:59 AM
You had me on board right up to the point where I saw the picture with all the butts in the air. Ain't no way I'm ever doing THAT. OMG! Never happening! But it does look like fun.
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

A Village with History

Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."