GUILDERLAND — Laurel Tormey Cole kept the heart of Guilderland Center’s yoga studio the same, but broadened its reach after she bought it a year ago.

Tormey Cole wants to bring yoga, and its varied benefits for the body, to people who wouldn’t normally try it.

The practice has become popular in recent years and it’s been embraced by a young, fit generation. But, Tormey Cole said, “Yoga’s benefits don’t stop there — yoga is beneficial to every body.”

She, herself, found that it helped after she had knee trouble and migraines.

Since one element of yoga is focusing on breath, she said, it makes sense that the practice could help with headaches — deeper breaths deliver more oxygenated air to the brain.

“It’s so multilayered,” she said of the benefits of yoga.

Since she bought the studio in the Park Guilderland plaza in Guilderland Center, she has doubled the staff and the class offerings. The studio now has a class called “fit over 50”; it is planning a class for developmentally disabled students; and it offers special workshops, like yoga for teenage girls this weekend.

Classes range in price from $15 for a drop-in session, $10 for students, to $99 for a three-month package.

Tormey Cole, who has a white orchid arching over the corner of her desk, also changed the studio’s name to Orchid Tree Yoga, a nod to her work with plants at the Emma Treadwell Thacher Nature Center.

“I don’t want to just be a business that’s in Guilderland Center — what Orchid Tree Yoga is about is growing community,” she said.

Tormey Cole had been a teacher at the studio for more than 10 years before she bought it and she is cultivating the tight-knit group of instructors and students that she inherited while also reaching out further into the general community.

Part of that effort is in partnering with not-for-profit organizations like The RED Bookshelf, which repairs and then circulates used children’s books in the Capital Region, and Eyes Wide Open, which helps victims of human trafficking.

Yoga is about many things, Tormey Cole said — strengthening, opening, and being aware — and it’s important not to let those things fall by the wayside when students step off their yoga mats. Incorporating not-for-profit organizations into the fiber of the studio carries those sentiments into the community.