Category: Food for thought

We messed with our logo again to celebrate the love that expresses through you each time you show up on the mat, every lovely note, every bright smile, every genuine act of kindness. The expression of love is medicine for one another and we are honored to be a part of this powerful and unique …

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In 2015, we will keep dreaming up ways to infuse our little mad corner of the world (and beyond) with some fine yoga seeds. Happy 2015 to each and everyone of you who make our four walls a haven of bliss, every time you show up to breathe, move and play with us. UNION SQUARE …

If we are able to imagine everyday what life would be like, if a pleasure we enjoy regularly or a person we love dearly was taken away from us, it would serve us as a potent reminder of how grateful we ought to be. If we are able to recognize that we are part of …

Some of us might say home means a controlled, safe and nurturing environment, or a place where everything feels familiar, a space where we have permission to be our un-sexiest self or our truest self without any artifice, the abode for your tee-shirt with a hole, home is where your couch is, and of course …

It is said that when you are ready, the teacher will come. We are under the illusion that we can do many things by ourselves; but in almost every instance everything is set in motion by and requires the assistance of others. Think about it, the food you eat for example is first picked by …

Artwork by Justin Bower / Panic Room @ UNIX GALLERY / Chelsea / NYC Every time we come on the mat, we are yearning for a state of wholeness, aligning body, mind, breath, heart and soul. Every time we step off the mat we have a choice: Going back feeling fragmented, separate, dismantled or carrying …

Artwork by Michele Abeles – Whitney Museum So as I am walking back home yesterday, late evening, lost in my wandering thoughts, a girl holding two huge boxes of pizza while standing in front of her building asks me with a drunken voice: are you coming in? It was clear she needed something so I …

— at MTA Subway – Astor Pl (6). Yesterday something interesting happened in the subway. An old and tired homeless man with a bad limp entered the car as we stopped at one of the stations. As he hardly made his way across the floor from one end to the other asking for money or …

Not only am I convinced we can each make a difference in the world but I also feel very strongly about the fact we have to start doing it. It is very easy to talk about the state of the planet, to be appalled by the injustices we may be subject to, to criticize people …