Originally published on YogaCityNYC Disclaimer: This new studio is near and dear to YD’s heart and we believe in its mission. Come down for a class. You may even spy a yogadork mulling about and/or teaching classes. wink, nudge. A new studio blooms in Union Square. New York City is becoming a yogi’s paradise and [...]
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When the market plummeted and the Recession struck, many turned to Recession Yoga – paid, by donation or free classes. Yep, yoga! From stressed out stock brokers to the recently unemployed to high-powered CEOs faced with pulling their companies from the brink people turned inward. Oh yes, it was the worst of times, it was [...]
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Yoga, no bullshit. Protesters of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement have descended on lower Manhattan in the form of peaceful makeshift bed-ins and barricades in the name of freedom, and they plan to stay for a few months. Hoping to attract more than 20,000, the gathering drew maybe half a fraction of that amount when [...]
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How did you spend your September 11th 10 year anniversary? An interesting article in TIME magazine highlights the difficulty in hosting an event or hawking knick knacks without coming off tacky and tasteless, cashing in on a national tragedy. But this is NY afterall! The land of opportunity! And the quickest to make a buck. [...]
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After the cops busted up the first plan to invade Grand Central for safety reasons, or whatever, the Storm Yogis have regrouped and once again have cast a promise of enormity and spectacle! And peace in the form of a mass mob practicing yoga in unison set to the backdrop of this crazy mother-lovin’ city [...]
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Gawker complains it’s “dumb and obnoxious”, calling out the homeless ‘joke’ at the end of the performance, continuing that “Lululemonheads like these have ruined [yoga] for the next several decades.” Huffington Post likens it to the “endearingly bizarre people” you see on the subways on a regular basis. it’s all yoga, baby‘s Roseanne admitted to [...]
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UPDATE 8/24: POSTPONED DUE TO POPO (official response below) Psssst. What are YOU doing Wednesday August 24th between 6 and 7pm? Perhaps strolling the cavernous halls of Grand Central ready to drop into your best corpse pose? We hear from unnamed sources that there will be others ready to play dead as well! It’s another [...]
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Om: A place to lay your mat. Via NYPost: Celebrity yoga guru Tara Stiles, whose clients include Deepak Chopra, has found a downtown Zen palace to call home. Stiles and her husband, Michael Taylor (CEO of social media marketing company Odyl), have bought a one-bedroom, two-bathroom condo at 90 Prince St. for $1.78 million. The [...]
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Breaking! Celebrities are keeping fit! “I learned that even though you aren’t always as good as the other people at the poses or you don’t look as elegant or can’t stretch as far, you just do what you can! It’s all about where YOU are in the moment. You don’t do this for others or [...]
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