MP STYLE GUIDE RSSTag Archives: Yoga
Balance In The City: Will He Like Me?
As you might have guessed, I’m trying new yoga studios. I recently took a great class at Hosh Yoga in my neighborhood. (Chalk advertising does work!) I was nervous entering the studio. Would he like me? What if we didn’t get along, would my downdogs be good enough,? What if he smelled weird, or [...]
Balance In The City: I Heart
Once again, the local drug store has indicated that Valentines Day is here. In high school, my bff and I often referred to it as “Happy *^%# It Sucks Day.” Just a couple of angst driven teenagers looking for a place to focus our aggression, now fairly well balanced adults with significant others, and still [...]
Balance In The City: Contentment
My sinuses have been on the attack this week with an indescribable fervor that could only be combated with a Z-pack. They are rebelling against the weather, and I really can’t blame them. It is likely that, either due to illness, weather, or the pick up of life, we are on the downward crest of [...]
Balance In The City: Watch Your Step
It is a wintery mess and New Yorkers are carefully watching their step. Is it a puddle? Is it ice? It’s both! This cautious approach and effort to ground the feet can directly be applied to the yoga practice. In any standing balancing pose (Tree, Warrior 3, Dancer) the work begins by trying to find [...]
MP Spotlight: Yoga Activewear
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Balance in the City: New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s resolutions are upon us: lose weight, practice yoga every day, cook five nights a week, so on and so forth, blah, blah, blah. This time of year seems full of self-criticism, highlighting the things gone wrong, despite our best efforts, rather than acknowledging our accomplishments and joys over the past year. One of [...]
Balance In The City: Tis The Season
Tis the season to be jolly, and stressed, and cold, and obliged to attend various holiday parties with open bar and buffets of frosted cookies in the shape of snowflakes. The season seems to have taken me hostage, and I yearn for the New Year when I can detox without guilt. In this time of [...]
Balance In The City: In The Zone
Sometimes it happens during the first OM, and other times it takes until savasana. It can come and go, disappearing without warning like the NYC sample sale season. I have been interested in and trying to track my own points of entry, departure and reentry into the yoga zone. I have learned that it is [...]
Balance In The City: Back Into It
Back from the holidays. Back to work. Back to yoga. I’ve been fondly remembering last year when I threw out my back by retrieving eyeliner from the bathroom floor. It took three months before stepping foot into a yoga studio. As a child, I was fortunate to avoid broken bones or sprains, while B.K.S. Iyengar was plagued with malaria, typhoid and bouts of [...]
Balance In The City: Whipping Wind
Here in NYC, we have turned a corner. It is November and late fall has officially arrived. (Reminder to self: throw out the pumpkins.) The cooler temperatures and whipping winds has caused me to add a sweater, scarf, hat, and fifteen minutes, to my daily routine. I have found it harder to breathe with these [...]
Balance In The City: Fall Into Balance
Balance – n. 1. a state of equilibrium; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc….. 4. mental or emotional steadisness…..7. the power or ability to decide an outcome. We attempt balance every day. We balance a checkbook, balance work and life, balance to put on a pair of pants or shoes, balance chemical equations. As children [...]
Balance In The City: First This, Then That
There are many, many things I love about yoga, but a big one is its organization. Reflect on any class and you’ll find that the order goes; standing poses, backbends and inversions, seated postures, then savasana. Or in a common asana like tree, the instructions are sequential; ground the standing leg, lift the opposite knee, [...]
Balance In The City: Aummm, My Head. Sniff, Sniff
I drank lots of water, less alcohol, got plenty of rest, and still managed to catch the seasonal cold. After 2 days on the couch, 1 box of tea, and half a jar of honey I took my tissues, a bottle of water, and headed to a class. I was worried about being light headed, [...]
Balance In The City: Fall Is Here
It must October. I can tell because the drugstore, which serves more of a calendar than my iPhone, is tempting me with candy corn. I must confess that I am naturally a cool temperature person, and yes, that was me wearing gloves and a grandma scarf last week. As we begin to accessorize the outside, [...]
Balance In The City: Gotta Go
We move fast and multi task. I’m currently writing this on my phone while jockeying for position on the train, apologizing for my bag, thinking of what excuse to use for being late to work (rain) and wondering why I never listened to Cat Stevens before. We also multi-task in yoga: breathing, moving, twisting. How [...]
