About: Alden Wicker
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 Be Content With What You Have.by Alden Wicker on Jan 5, 2013 Sometimes I love my life, sometimes I don’t. In those moments when I get down, I remind myself that it’s not the life you have, it’s what you do with it. I took this picture from the top of The Standard Hotel in New York City. From there, you can look out over the glittering city, which [...] 362 views |
Life Is a Museum, Not a Store.by Alden Wicker on Jan 16, 2012 Want friends? Buy yourself a kick-ass wardrobe and a bottle of champagne. Life is not a store. This may not sound profound. Of course life isn’t a store. You can’t buy happiness, right? But America thinks you can. Want health? Buy pills. Want friends? Buy yourself a kickass wardrobe and a bottle of champagne. Want [...] 597 views |
Kathryn Budig Wants You to be True To Yourself (And Maybe Try Her New DVD). ~Alden Wickerby Alden Wicker on Jul 1, 2011 Read on to find out how she deals with criticism, why she’s backing away from asanas, that a happy person in sparkly yoga pants is a person she wants to hang out with. 2,300 views |
Review: Live Yoga Classes Right in Your Living Room. ~ Alden Wickerby Alden Wicker on Jun 29, 2011 The new website Physiic streams live classes to your computer–and not just yoga classes. They have other group classes like aerobic and strength training, along with meditation and teacher training. 555 views |
Sorry Waylon, this is the Best Wedding Proposal Ever! ~ Alden Wickerby Alden Wicker on Jun 12, 2011 Get your tissues out y’all, you’re about to ball your eyes out. (Or if you are like my boyfriend, stare at your girlfriend with bewilderment when she starts bawling.) 2,841 views |
Recipe for a Lovable Yogini.by Alden Wicker on May 16, 2011 I just wanted to do some good yoga, to stretch myself intellectually and physically. The last thing I expected was to come away with a girl-crush. 2,560 views |
Sexy time with Alan Finger: WTF do orgasms have to do with yoga?by Alden Wicker on May 14, 2011 Alan Finger has several New York studios, several books, and an attitude somewhere between The Dude and Santa Claus, with looks to match. 1,489 views |
Therapeutic Yoga: No Pain, No Gain?by Alden Wicker on May 14, 2011 I remember a teacher once saying, “You guys need to just listen, OK?” when class participants kept putting their feet and arms in the wrong place. I would like to see her in this classroom. 630 views |
Yoga Journal Conference: For the Sad, Frustrated and Brokenheartedby Alden Wicker on Apr 11, 2011 I find myself drawn to all the emotion-exploring, strength-tapping, energy-flowing classes at the upcoming Yoga Journal conference, all taught by highly qualified instructors. 520 views |
How To Cut The Crap From Your Life…And Your Writingby Alden Wicker on Mar 28, 2011 Minimalism is in. The idea of having just enough stuff to fill a backpack so you can jet at any time is romantic and inspiring. 1,054 views |
Yoga Journal Conference Comes To NYC: May 12-16by Alden Wicker on Mar 23, 2011 Sometimes we crave something to pull us out of our reverie and show us whole new approaches to positions, and styles of thought. A preview of what to expect from this spring conference. 330 views |
 Learn More About Tibet with Three NYC Exhibitsby Alden Wicker on Mar 11, 2011 New York has not one but three different exhibitions currently up that explore different facets of this amazing culture and its art. 175 views |
Are you a Naked Person?by Alden Wicker on Mar 10, 2011 I think your view of nakedness says more about you than how conventionally beautiful you are. It’s not about how long your legs are or how much bounce you’ve got in your boobs. It’s about how you approach life. 1,233 views |
Get that 9-year-old Out of My Yoga Class!by Alden Wicker on Feb 28, 2011 When she first showed up, I thought she was cute. Not anymore. She fidgets and sighs. She plays with her hair, and takes her glasses on and off, on and off, or else just knocks them to the floor with a clatter. She doesn’t know her right from her left. She is unable to translate [...] 2,281 views |
Why Meditation and Green Tea Can Help You Beat or Avoid Cancerby Alden Wicker on Feb 23, 2011 You know meditation has many benefits. It helps you get a handle on your emotions, fight stress, and get in touch with yourself. But did you know that it can help you fight through or even avoid cancer all together? That is the message in Anti-Cancer: A New Way Of Life by David Servan-Schreiber. I [...] 557 views |
Finding a Digital Yoga Studioby Alden Wicker on Feb 17, 2011 Sometimes I can’t make it to the yoga studio. I came home late and need an extra… 472 views |
When You’re in a Crazy Situation, Don’t React, Just Observe.by Alden Wicker on Jan 21, 2011 On a normal weekday, I boarded the Q train in Brooklyn to take it into the city, not knowing what a show I would get. 216 views |
Women Twirls Baby Around Her Head in the Name of “Baby Yoga”by Alden Wicker on Jan 19, 2011 You don’t need to know Russian to be shocked and/or horrified by the “lariat-like” twirling of what looks like a very, very young baby at a Baby Yoga retreat in Egypt. 1,713 views |
Measuring Happiness Instead of Moneyby Alden Wicker on Jan 18, 2011 …my first thought was to write Obama and telling him to go visit Bhutan, like, right now. 102 views |
Question for Yoga Teachers: Why Do You Adjust?by Alden Wicker on Jan 13, 2011 Is it just my ego? Or am I being adjusted way more than normal? So, uh, maybe this is a stupid question…but why do you adjust me so much? No, no, I love adjustments, don’t get me wrong. It’s just that, well, I seem to get adjusted way more than anyone else. Why? This is [...] 1,270 views |
May You Find Such Balance You Become One with Tangerinesby Alden Wicker on Jan 10, 2011 Learn from the kitties. They are wise. 162 views |
We Just Can’t Walk Straightby Alden Wicker on Jan 9, 2011 In this typically adorable NPR video, Robert Krulwich explains that without visual cues, humans are unable to walk straight. 214 views |
Woman Does the Best (or Worst) Dance Ever on National Television.by Alden Wicker on Jan 6, 2011 Is this the best decision or worst decision she’s ever made? Does it matter? She is happy! 1,627 views |
Deepak Chopra’s Daytime Television Appearance: How to Lose Weight!by Alden Wicker on Jan 6, 2011 Daytime television has something to teach us? I’m not a big TV watcher, but my boyfriend likes to have something going in the background. Well guess what’s on right now? Dr. Oz, and he has Deepak Chopra on! It’s a little weird, because it’s one of those daytime television shows where there’s a big, enthusiastic [...] 424 views |
 Why Learning to Sew Can Improve Your Practiceby Alden Wicker on Jan 4, 2011 Why being a Renaissance Man or Woman is essential. “The cultivated person doesn’t want to get rid of his appetites, he wants to control them.” 215 views |
 What Do You Look For in a Yoga Studio?by Alden Wicker on Dec 29, 2010 What kind of questions should I ask? Are there red flags that I should watch out for when I take a first class? Are there deal breakers? On the flip side, is there something that makes you say to yourself, “This place is it!” And what’s a reasonable rate for a class or a ten-class card? How far would you go for the perfect studio? 703 views |
 Why You Can’t Convince Someone to Be Green Right Now….But Maybe Later!by Alden Wicker on Dec 23, 2010 You can lead a horse to water… How true is that? We hear it all the time, we believe it, and yet when someone blurts out, “My favorite food is veal,” we spend the next fifteen minutes telling them that it’s bad. Has it ever worked? Not for me. In fact, I was that person [...] 126 views |
 Crying Upside Downby Alden Wicker on Dec 21, 2010 If only because you’ll start to laugh… Has anyone tried this? Via Bits of Truth 166 views |
Ten Steps to Eating Perfectly.by Alden Wicker on Dec 13, 2010 The path to starvation? They said that fast food executives were turning fat profits by making us fat, so I stopped eating fast food. They said that killing animals was wrong, so I became a vegetarian. They said that fertilizer run-off from industrial farming is killing the Gulf of Mexico, the pesticides are killing honeybees, [...] 11,789 views |
 Buddhism Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Happinessby Alden Wicker on Dec 6, 2010 I may be in the minority, but I often find myself thinking that Buddhism is the “happiest” way of life. Can you blame me? My sister once came home from a Baptist service crying because she was told she would go to hell. In high school I studied a famous tract from 18th century theologian [...] 351 views |
 What To Do About Hand-Me-Down Fur?by Alden Wicker on Nov 29, 2010 When fur is more than a fashion statement. As my first winter in New York City approached last year, I 973 views |
 Have You Stretched Today?by Alden Wicker on Nov 17, 2010 Big kitty does his downward dog. Are you yoga instructors out there itching to sneak up behind him and press down his heels? I would suggest refraining. 224 views |
What The Dalai Lama Taught Me About Football.by Alden Wicker on Nov 15, 2010 When the point of the game is actually having fun. Saturday afternoon my boyfriend and I had time to kill, so we put on 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama. My boyfriend could really care less about yoga and spirituality, but he had found it on Pay Per View, had already watched it once, and [...] 413 views |
Keeping Compassionate in New York City.by Alden Wicker on Nov 1, 2010 It was early afternoon on Tuesday, so the after-work joggers… 449 views |
Downward Facing Kitty.by Alden Wicker on Sep 10, 2010 Kittenasana? via Boing Boing This cat looks like he is breathing into his pose quite nicely until the filmer comes along and pokes him. Like a good yoga student, he takes his practice being interrupted in stride. 423 views |
The Commercial Hijacking of Eat, Pray, Love.by Alden Wicker on Aug 6, 2010 Eat, Pray, Shop? I’m not sure how much publicity the movie Eat, Pray, Love has been getting across the country, but as a New Yorker, I’ve been seeing it everywhere. On the sides of buses, giant posters, and tie-ins with magazines and other lifestyle brands. And it always makes me a little bit uneasy, this commercialization of a book about [...] 1,457 views |
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