Yoga in NYC is currently a tale of two houses: Behemoths like Pure and YogaWorks, which lure the yoga-as-workout crowd to their mega-studios. While, on the other end of the spectrum, a handful of yoga...Read More>>

It’s hard to imagine Ava Taylor screaming at her assistant to bring her a soy chai latte or to get her Shiva Rea on the phone lickity split. Yes, Ava Taylor’s an agent. But she’s a breed apart...Read More>>

Yoga teachers (and moms) Barrie Raffel and Karen Safire founded Receptive Nest five years ago with the idea that specific yoga poses could enhance fertility. (Think happy baby as a result, not a pose....Read More>>

Almost every yogi gets an injury at some point. Doug Swenson, who’s been practicing since 1963, has had his fair share of them. The yoga polymath (and older brother of top Ashtanga teacher David...Read More>>

Like many beginning yoga students, I graduated from basics classes to advanced vinyasa classes as soon as I mastered the vocabulary. A couple of years and a couple of injuries down the road, I thought...Read More>>

While many yogis go commando in class, I’m just not that kind of yogi. But it’s been a serious challenge to find the right item that lays undetectably flat under jersey practice pants, and that...Read More>>

Pure Yoga just unfurled the mats and rang the reclaimed temple bells (a prominent design motif) at its brand-new 20,000 square-foot location on the Upper West Side. The amenity-laden space follows on...Read More>>

One summer evening in 2008, massage therapist Ben Fleisher and his girlfriend were scouring yoga studio websites looking for the right class at the right time. “We were wasting our one free hour of...Read More>>

Pilates studios provide the rings and reformers. And yoga is not about the “stuff” anyway. But we all need a few tools to be comfortable, so we can focus on the practice itself. With the holidays...Read More>>

Many yoga practitioners find they hit a wall when it comes to inversions, literally and figuratively. Standing poses, arm balances, tricky transitions all seem to be coming along, but balancing...Read More>>

“It’s vata season, so it’s good to do deep forward bends,” says Angela Arnold. And so I discovered that yoga poses, like produce and fashion, are also seasonal. Read More>>

Yesterday the Kula Yoga Project, one of the city’s most serious studios, blasted this e-mail to its members: “So first the bad news, or really the SAD news. Five short weeks ago we replaced our...Read More>>