Yoga and Times Square. How un-alike can two things be? Calm and commercialism really do not mix. Yet mixing it up is always invigorating. Just so, the Bikram yoga class on 46th and Broadway last Monday, on a sweltering day just past high noon, was so much fun. Organized by the Times Square Alliance in [...]
Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Another confession. I have a hopeless crush on a fellow yogi. Hopeless for many reasons. Start with: he’s younger than me. Add: He is tall, dark, and handsome, and those guys are just not that into me. Plus it is plain that Mr. Hot has been severely burnt by the romantic fires of those who [...]
Make the Ideal Real
Bikram teachers give endless instructions for each pose: how to enter it, how to hold it, what its perfect form is, which components are form and which are depth, and which are first in importance. It can get confusing. In posture clinic a few weeks ago, I learned that many of these instructions–called the dialogue–describe [...]
Cold Case
I recently had a cold for five days. However humdrum that may seem, it is man-bites-dog news. For two and a half years, I have been practicing five or six days a week, and not a single germ has colonized me. In the bad old days, I suffered four colds a year, one in each [...]
Bikram Yoga NYC opened its doors in August 1999 and became Manhattan's first Bikram Yoga Studio! Owners Donna Rubin and Jennifer Lobo had both been avid practitioners of Bikram Yoga in other cities and knew that no city needed Bikram Yoga more than New York! Check out our Locations and Schedules here.
Our blogger, Yoga Lily has been practicing intensively in our studios for more than two years. She was inspired to begin this blog by the myriad benefits the yoga brings her. Yoga Lily lives in Manhattan with her two daughters, an oversized German Shepherd, and a Russian Blue cat.
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