Flavorpill
Events
Get Your Dance On This Saturday at YogaWorks Soho
- Who: Flavorpill, EarthDance, Evolver.net, and YogaWorks Soho
- What: Get Your Dance On! Two floors of non-stop dancing, with live drumming, and complimentary (and healthy) food and drink from Tumeric Alive, Gnosis Chocolate, Katalyst Kombucha, Whole Foods, Frey Wines, and Kind Bars. All ages, all backgrounds, all love. Dress to sweat!
- When: Saturday, September 18. Pre-dance Global Prayer for Peace and permaculture discussion panel starting at 7; dance party starts at 8.
- Where: YogaWorks Soho, 459 Broadway (2nd floor).
New York
Events
Kick Off Summer With World's Largest Yoga Class in Central Park
Picture 10,000 people, simultaneously saluting the sun to kick off the summer of 2010. On June 22nd, the first day of summer, you can stop picturing and join 9,999 other folks in real life on the Great Lawn in Central Park for the world's largest yoga event. Hosted by our friends at Flavorpill, with the yoga class led by the inimitable Elena Brower, all shapes, size, and skill levels are welcome, and class is free. Registration opens May 20. And fret not if you're not from NYC: Flavorpill and Jet Blue are hooking up two people from each of five Jet Blue cities with free airfare and rooms at the Standard Hotel. All the details at flavorpill.com/yoga.
New York
Event Reports
Earth Day Yoga at The Standard: New York Goes Peace, Love and Miami
Post game report on the Earth Day celebration at The Standard, produced by our friends at Flavorpill: Note the wood-paneled "Highline Room" above, with picture window looking out at sun setting over New Jersey. That's Elena Brower of Virayoga fame at the front, talking about the the Hindu goddess Kali. After deep savasana, a crowd of conga drummers files in with deejay. Ensued: Yogis dancing barefoot, drinking coconut water, and eating organic chocolate. Meanwhile, downstairs in the biergarten, well-dressed financiers drink wheat beer and eye the various Ferraris left casually at the curb. Can The Standard re-create the success of its Miami hamam in the Meapa? Consensus: It'll be tough, but the healthy living part would be nice. Overheard by the coconut water bar, a NYC yogi talking to an Exec from The Standard Miami....
NYC Yogi: New York has great yoga.
Standard Exec: But Miami has the love.
Events
Flavorpill's Earth Day Yoga Party at the Standard
We know that you've been meaning to get to the Standard for yoga class since our news about public daily yoga classes on the 18th floor. Well, this Thursday is the day to go. The Standard and our friends at Flavorpill are teaming up to bring you Earth Day Yoga with Elena Brower of Virayoga. Cost is $20, but all proceeds go to EarthDay-NY, and after the 7 P.M. class, the party heats up with live music and free wine, chocolate, and kombucha. All the details after the jump.
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Events
Flavorpill's Get Your Dance On Returns to YogaWorks this Saturday
- What: The happiest, healthiest dance party in town.
- When: This Saturday, March 27th, 7-11 P.M.
- Where: YogaWorks Soho
- Why: Forget dancing in pinchy heels or tight jeans. Dress to sweat, kick off your shoes, and bust a move. And when you're tired, lounge on the pillows, enjoy the wine, chocolate, and kombucha on tap, or chill out in the saunas. Bonus, your admission gets you a week of unlimited yoga at YogaWorks, with all profits donated to Housing Works.
- How Much: $20; $10 for YogaWorks members. Call (212) 965-0801 or get tickets at the door.
- Link: Get Your Dance On
New York
Events
Get Your Dance On at YogaWorks this Saturday
UPDATE MARCH 2011: Get Your Dance On is bigger than ever, and you can get the latest scoop on their Kickstarter page.
Flavorpill's Get Your Dance On is moving to Manhattan! Dress to sweat and show up at YogaWorks Soho for three hours of music, wine, chocolate, kombucha, and, of course, dancing, this Saturday from 7 - 10 pm. The cost for the night is $20, but it gets you a free week of yoga at YogaWorks and all proceeds benefit Housing Works. (YogaWorks members, cost is $10). The party kicks off right after the last savasana of the day, so if you're feeling über-fit, come for yoga, stay for dancing. And when you're tuckered out, there are two big party rooms, one for booty-shaking, and one for chilling, with pillows, dijeridoos and cello players. Plus, the saunas are yours for the using. As our friends at Flavorpill put it, "GYDO is all ages, all styles, all backgrounds, and all love." Dress to sweat. Tickets at the door or by calling Yogaworks at (212) 965-0801.
New York
High Culture
Social Workout Goes to Yoga at the MoMa
move with me as one
freedom in space and in time
stillness of the mind
Tomorrow at 8:30AM, under Gabriel Orozco's Mobile Matrix, in the vast main room of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 250 yogis will salute the sun — and then go on to take a yoga class. Among them will be a number of Social Workout readers (and editors...), at least four of whom composed a Haiku for the privilege. Congrats to daisylb, whose haiku is above, as well as sandyliz, zuzupetals, and mindy b; and thank you all for your poems. This is the third yoga-meets-art event produced by Flavorpill, and I confess it makes me happy. It's a brilliant, fresh mixing of fine art, body culture and urban community. Wish you could join? Well, we've got one slot left to give away....
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Flavorpill Yoga at MoMA with Elena Brower
- Who: Elena Brower, Founder of Virayoga
- When: Saturday, January 23rd, 8:30 A.M.
- What: The third installment of yoga at the MoMA led by Anusara guru and general yoga star Elena Brower. This time class takes place under a suspended large-scale sculpture by Gabriel Orozco.
New York
Local Events
Get Your Dance On at the Brooklyn Bowl
Recipe for idyllic Saturday morning and way to achieve your Historic Dancing feat: Get Your Dance On kicks off this Saturday at the mad popular Brooklyn Bowl at 10:30 A.M. Yes, it's a weekly morning dance party produced by our friends at Flavorpill. Wake up. Proceed to the Bowl. Dance for an hour or two to DJ Small ¢hange, who spins Jamaican dub by way of Burning Man funk. Brunch on a full menu of comfort food provided by the Blue Ribbon Bakery kitchen. Dance some more, and then perhaps bowl a few frames. It's daytime dancing, and it's open to all ages. Who knows if it'll be the perfect urban mix of dance-loving young and old in a bowling alley context, or a romper room? But it seems just crazy enough to be brilliant.
Practical Eating
Sascha's Smoothie
Flavorpill co-founder Sascha Lewis, the picture of extreme wellness, popped by our kitchen with a mission: To make a smoothie that tastes good AND would help him gain a few pounds. A few whirls, chops, plops, dabs and spoonfuls later, the strangest looking concoction emerged: A greenish-greyish drink with a pudding-like consistency. It's peanut butter, he explained, dabbing at his chartreuse moustache — and avocado, plus maca , and a banana, and coconut milk. The good fats of the avocado and coconut mixed with the dense, calorific peanut butter, plus all the iron and minerals in the maca (a.k.a. "nature's Viagra), actually made the thing as healthy as it looked. And it tasted good, we all agreed: Fortifying and delicious. Here's how you can make it, too....
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