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You’re a Hugger, I Can Tell. ~ Karla Rodas

by on Apr 2, 2013

I haven’t always been a hugger. Really. A while back, I was chit chatting and greeting a few people before my yoga class and in walked in a lady that I hadn’t seen before. I smiled at her and was making my way over to introduce myself and she said, “You’re a hugger. I can [...]


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i heart new york & other half truths. ~ Stacey Ramsower

by on Mar 15, 2013

This piece is poetry therefore we did not change the original formatting. i’ve been asking myself a lot of questions lately…namely, “where the hell am i?” not just physically, but emotionally, spiritually (all the same thing if you ask me, but you haven’t so i’ll save that for another blog). i’ve wound up on many [...]


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Don’t F*ck My Mother. {Video}

by on Mar 11, 2013

You can do anything that you wanna do. But please don’t….


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5 & 1/2 Things You Should Know Before Yoga Journal Conference in NYC.

by on Mar 9, 2013

5 & 1/2 Things You Should Know Before Yoga Journal Conference in NYC.


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A Little Corleone Goes a Long Way. ~ Anne Clendening

by on Mar 7, 2013

There’s a reason every guy loves The Godfather. Look how freakin’ gangster Michael Corleone looks. The icy stare, the fedora, the suit and tie… There’s nothing that’ll melt my heart quicker than a full-blooded east coast Italian man in a three piece suit. I never say “gangster,” but holy horse’s head, that’s exactly what it [...]


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How to Capture Colorado in the Canyons of Manhattan. ~ Jen McKelvie

by on Feb 5, 2013

The buildings get sucked back and the sky opens. I feel like I can breathe, like I am alone.


Out of the Lion’s Den. ~ Vera Snow

by on Dec 17, 2012

Perhaps it’s these kinds of tragedies that finally begin to move the great iceberg of change. I was driving around this weekend trying to make sense of yet another shooting rampage, this one even more tragic and senseless than the last. Not surprisingly, nothing much came to me until my radio tuned into Katy Perry’s Wide Awake, [...]


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Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis ft: Robert Mann on the Revolution in Independent Film Making. {Dutch Kills}

by on Dec 7, 2012

> Participate in the Journey: Like “Dutch Kills” on Facebook. “After serving time in prison for a heist gone wrong four best friends reunite to do one last job. But in ‘Dutch Kills,’ love, loyalty and devotion won’t get you very far…” > Support this expression of the Independent, Community-based Revolution in Film Making: Indiegogo [...]


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22 Blackout Blessings. ~ Katie Geddes Ulanov

by on Nov 11, 2012

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Evolution from the Inside Out. {Video}

by on Nov 6, 2012

When most people think of evolution, they think of the growth and development of the exterior dimensions of reality—the biological evolution of natural species, the development of the cosmos from the Big Bang to the present, or the rapidly accelerating advancement of technology. But…


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The Yoga of Bicycling: Pedal, Stretch, Breathe.

by on Nov 2, 2012

As I read, any line between yoga and biking seems to grow increasingly fluid.


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Bloomberg & The NYC Soda Ban.

by on Oct 15, 2012

Anyone living in New York City is probably aware of the current soda ban controversy. A heated debate has been taking place for months. However, the focus of the debate is not on soda and its potential negative effects. In a nation consumed with fear of becoming a nanny state, this soda ban has become [...]


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Vegan Eats in Brooklyn.

by on Oct 10, 2012

Despite having spent so much time in Manhattan, I’m not ready to leave without looking into the delicious, healthy and vegan eats available across the East River in Brooklyn! So many hip neighborhoods and so much good food, let’s get started! Being in a concrete jungle, amongst all the hustle and bustle, finding serenity is [...]


The Evolving Fight Over Fracking in New York. ~ Seth Gladstone

by on Oct 5, 2012

Finally, after many months of organizing, rallying, phoning, e-mailing, marching, screaming and shouting, participants in the ever-expanding grassroots movement to ban fracking in New York have reason to take a deep breath and smile. They’ve scored a small victory against Governor Cuomo’s steady push to introduce the dangerous drilling method to the state and forced [...]


Yoga in New York. ~ Wari Om

by on Sep 27, 2012

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Healthy & Vegan New York Eats.

by on Sep 26, 2012

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My Love Affair With New York City. ~ Malin Bergman

by on Sep 24, 2012

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Healthy & Vegan New York Eats. (Part One)

by on Sep 20, 2012

This island is home to some of the world’s best cuisine.


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Takin’ It to the Streets of New York. ~ Photographs by Robert Sturman

by on Jul 8, 2012

Yoga is Beautiful and so is New York!


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World’s Largest Rooftop Farm: Local Toxin-Free Food For All.

by on Jun 1, 2012

I recently interviewed Paul Lightfoot, CEO of BrightFarms. That building in the image will be topped off by his project: the world’s largest rooftop farm. BrightFarms’ plan, under Paul’s direction, makes old-fashioned sense in a manner we’ve come to think of as new wave. BrightFarms’ platform synthesizes produce growth, harvest, distribution and point of sale into a local system.


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A Yoga Teacher’s Fallen Bridge Pose Called Life. ~ Ashley DiMeglio

by on May 31, 2012

I was young and I was really didn’t take any interest in yoga. The first time I had been brought to a yoga class was at a local gym and it was the first class that I attended alongside my mother. I had seen my mother do yoga when I was younger and heard about [...]


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Pure Bike Love. ~ Heather Topcik

by on May 30, 2012

There is nothing quite like riding down a car-free FDR drive and over the Queensboro bridge with 30,000 other cyclists.


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Girls Girls Girls. ~ Lindsay Friedman

by on May 22, 2012

If I had a diary, this show would be the television version of it. Eccentric women thoroughly enjoying their 20s, with wacky jobs and lively sex-capades. This show will give you every reason to laugh at all your misadventures. I am into episode six of the HBO’s hottest television show, Girls, written by the 26-year-old [...]


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My First Yoga Journal Conference. ~ Indira Ganesan

by on Apr 30, 2012

In March, I received an email advertising a Yoga Journal Conference in New York with a discount offer for elephant journal readers. The discount applied to the main Saturday and Sunday of a four-day affair, but I wondered. Dare I go to a Yoga Conference?


You Gotta Retox to Detox. ~ Tanya Maria Mah

by on Apr 11, 2012

Hedonistic Tales and the Relevance of Yoga in Today’s World


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New York State of Mind.

by on Mar 21, 2012

It’s just not like anywhere else. It’s syncopated.
It has a rhythm like no other place I’ve ever been.


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Suzanne Rae’s Subtle Green Styles at New York Fashion Week.

by on Mar 4, 2012

Her latest collection, shown yesterday at the Box in Lincoln Center as part of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, was “..inspired by the eternal revolution channeling the spirits of Jim Morrison, Aldous Huxley, and William Blake,” according to the show notes. So our greatest rock ‘n roll poet, a mind-as-world author and poet, and mystical Romantic poet? Beauty described via detail and repeated elements would not be an improper way to describe Suzanne Rae’s collection.


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Gretchen Jones’ Winter 2012 Collection at New York Fashion Week.

by on Feb 28, 2012

Gretchen Jones never fails to impress—her design aesthetic moves beyond her clothes and into her always thought-provoking presentations.


Adventures in Windowfarming. ~ Heather Topcik

by on Feb 21, 2012

Urban Food Production for the Landless is a workshop taught by Brooklyn Homesteader, Meg Paska. The course covered all of the things one can grow indoors in a small urban space, including sprouting beans, starting seeds, making edible pea-shoot terrariums, and – most intriguing – growing mushrooms in coffee grounds.


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Happy St. Rusty’s Day. ~ Christianne Tisdale

by on Feb 13, 2012

Valentine’s Day = no celebration for me. That’s when all the loonies come out to play. And St. Valentine was beaten to death and then beheaded. What’s to celebrate? Plus, I’m 48, I’m single, unemployed and I don’t have a dog.* Pretty much rock bottom. My rock bottom is comparatively pretty shiny. I live in [...]


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Just because I’m an acupuncture-yoga-qigong healer type doesn’t mean I don’t know my football.

by on Jan 31, 2012

Brian E. Ford Why I Wish the Giants Would Lose More Than I Wish the Patriots Would Win. And as a Patriots fan, it’s a little hard to admit. And worse than admitting [Why I Wish the Giants Would Lose More Than I Wish the Patriots Would Win] would be feeling that my words are [...]


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D train, love and me.

by on Jan 29, 2012

I want to be loved. I have a heart, a pair of hands and a vagina. But zombies… zombies… they are everywhere and they are impenetrable.


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Cowardice + Consumerism = Canned Hunting.

by on Jan 27, 2012

I believe paying hunters are cowards and thieves. They hide under the strong arms of the professional hunter. They are stealing a false sense of virility, which they wear like the cheapest cologne on the planet. They don the fool’s grin, but not in a good way.


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An Enlightened Society Reflects Great Art. ~ Cynthia Carvajal

by on Jan 23, 2012

Art Basel is known as “the most prestigious art show in the Americas” attended by curators and art collectors from around the world.


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Sh*t NYC & DC Says.

by on Jan 21, 2012

“I love it here!” “I hate it here” “Where’s the train!?” “Oh, they’re filming Law & Order…who cares?” Yup, it’s NYC. Bagel: DC: “best in the US…well, aside from New York”:


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An Army of Gays.

by on Jan 10, 2012

The more he used words like adorable and love, the more I believed that I was a hat person.


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Only in New York City. {Jessica Latshaw}

by on Jan 5, 2012

“impromptu ukulele-conga jam session between strangers”<> Daily What. Only in NYC. That’s not true: music brings together strangers and wakes out-of-it-ness into smiling everywhere. Everywhere. Wow of the day. And A Star Is Born: I give you…Jessica Latshaw. The best 3:44 of my day (and I had a pretty good day)—and now, maybe of yours: [...]


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Taking Inspiration From 5 Kids Who Beat The Odds. ~ Anthony Zolezzi

by on Dec 28, 2011

But it was the winners, each of whom will receive a $10,000 college scholarship and other services including mentoring, internship placements and job training.
These are incredible kids who have managed to shine academically and give back to their communities in spite of personal ordeals that would have defeated most people.


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Food and Intentionality.

by on Dec 15, 2011

In today’s epicurean existence the idea of food can be summed up in two words: food porn.


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Denver Music: “Sophistafunk” is exactly what it sounds like.

by on Dec 14, 2011

Are you ready for Sophistafunk?


What We Don’t See: A Closer Look at Sex Trafficking. ~ Heather Snyder

by on Nov 18, 2011

With all the time I’ve spent thinking about sex trafficking lately, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised I had the dream I d


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Looking for God on the 6 Train.

by on Oct 26, 2011

…the unbearable boredom of the flickering lights, the jockeying for seats, the banality of the beige-yellow-orange subway seats…


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Dear 99 Percenters. ~ Traci Wallace

by on Oct 24, 2011

I am all about doing what’s right and fighting for causes that I believe in, which brings me to an interesting fact that has always resonated with me. Mother Teresa never attended an anti-war rally, but she would always lend her support to a peace rally. She realized that putting your energy behind something that you are “for” is far better than rallying behind something you are “against.”


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The Golden Ratio of Attraction.

by on Oct 17, 2011

Charisma makes us swoon but might lead us to disaster. Character is steadfast and honorable but wooden, and dull. How do we resolve this?

With Phi Φ.


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Somos el 99%- #OccupySF. {en Español e Inglés}

by on Oct 6, 2011

No eramos Republicanos ni Demócratas, no eramos azules ni rojos; eramos estadounidenses. Fuimos el 99%.


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Wall Street Occupied? ~ Videos, news links and photos

by on Oct 2, 2011

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World Peace, Part 2

by on Sep 16, 2011

If you knew for a fact that at the end of every day you were coming home to some good loving, the majority of life’s minor annoyances, would simply cease to be.


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Weight Loss, Yoga, Love & the Story of My Life.

by on Sep 14, 2011

I was born and raised in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. My parents are lovely folks who never exercise or eat healthy. They love to have fun, go out, eat, dress, drink, dance and indulge in general. Both of them had a really good jobs and a thriving business. We were well off and life was good for a while. Things always change, but this is another story. I came to New York just in time for my 19th birthday for the summer break. I fell in love with NY and never looked back!


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9/11/11: Ten videos worth watching.

by on Sep 11, 2011

A round-up of today’s most moving moments: Presidents Bush, Clinton (eloquent), Obama; Paul Simon’s sounds of silence; children sing Empire State of Mind…and an epic anthem. Let this anniversary be about sadness, remembrance, heroism, empathy, community & Love—not Gitmo, TSA, Patriot Act, war or civilian deaths wherever they happen. ~ ed. NY Times: Unlike Mr. [...]


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Back in the saddle (again) / the return of the prodigal blogger. ~ Elise Espat

by on Sep 3, 2011

It all began innocently enough. A little trip to India and a distaste for group email blasts. Soon I was writing daily. Just as suddenly I stopped, started, stopped, started, stopped and here I am again.


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