J. Brown alerted me to a piece of legislation approaching the New Jersey legislature that would attempt to require state legislation for fitness professionals, including yoga teachers. If passed, NJ teachers would be required to get a 300-hr certification from the state (superseding Yoga Alliance), renew a $150 license every two years, complete 25 hours [...]

This morning I got up early (9:15) and went to J.Brown’s class at Abhyasa. It’s the new studio on Metropolitan and Leonard. I really liked the essays he posted on the studio’s site; like me, he’s looking for something more than just acrobatics and athletic achievement of poses. (I should say for me, in addition [...]

Last night I went to Amanda’s “Sweat & Flow” class at Greenhouse. It’s appropriately named, but not nearly as vacuous as the name might seem. (Honestly, sweating is one of the reasons that vinyasa is such a valuable form of yoga — it gets the junk out of your system, and heats your muscles up [...]