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This, says Lori Lowell, is the new yoga: Two DJs on stage, a rapper, perhaps a human beat boxer, and somewhere in the mix, an instructor leading students through an hour’s worth of poses.

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Lowell, who owns the newly opened Gold’s Gym Elite Training Center in Woodbridge, said she is hoping to take on the Soul Cycle studios, Bar Method facilities that have begun cropping up around town. She has also found a way, she said, to mix music and fitness — and she’s hoping it works.

“It’s a complete reconfiguration of what fitness should be,” said Lowell, who owns a number of local Gold’s Gym franchises with her husband, Jeremy. “We’re trying to create more social environments with really cool couches, a fireplace and a stage for performances.”

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The 22,500-square-foot Elite Training Center opened earlier this month with a boxing ring, jungle gyms, aerial yoga and bubble soccer, where participants compete wearing translucent bubble suits. There will also be dance parties and regular open mic nights.

The idea, Lowell said, is to draw members by marketing the gym as a social hangout more than as a place to stop in for 30 minutes on the elliptical.

Membership, which is capped at 2,000, costs about $50 a month.

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