We're Anna and Lydia, sisters, born by the sea and raised in Pittsburgh and neither of us has ever turned down a chance to get in the water.
 

Anna runs operations. Before The Ripple, she owned and ran a seasonal eco-tourism business, which is where she learned that a good guest experience is mostly invisible systems working correctly. She is a Certified Pool Operator, a 200-hour yoga instructor through Fly Yoga School and One Point One, and the reason the water here is precisely temped, treated, and tested every day we're open.
 

Lydia has spent twenty years leading community organizations and most recently as executive director of a regional nonprofit. She started thinking seriously about The Ripple after burning out more than once. In the conversations that followed, she kept hearing the same sentence from nearly everyone she knew: there's nowhere to go. Pittsburgh has bars and it has houses, and not a lot in between. She is a Certified Master Professional Coach and a LUMA human-centered design facilitator.
 

We opened The Ripple because we wanted the thing to exist and nobody else was building it. We're heading into our third season on Butler Street, with six practitioners upstairs and a lot of hot water.