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Kula Yoga Project Opens Williamsburg Outpost
Exciting news for L train yogis. Kula Yoga Project, the Tribeca home of a goodly number of the city's most crazy-advanced yoga folks, is opening a second studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, reports Well + Good NYC. The second studio is slated to open September 16th. It'll have the same teachers as the first location, but more showers. Plus the new studio will have a Hyde Yoga shop and a cafe and juice bar. Free classes all day on September 16th! Kula Yoga Project Williamsburg, 85 N. 3rd St., between Berry and Wythe.
Retreats
New Years in Costa Rica with Kula Yoga
- Who: The Kula Yoga Project with instructors Jillian Tureckin and Oceana Baity
- What: Skip New Year's in the city and spend a week on the beach in Costa Rica, with two-a-day vinyasa yoga classes, lots of beach time, and hikes in the jungle. Kula is known for their advanced classes, but don't be intimidated if you're more of a beginner — Jillian teaches Kula's absolute beginner courses.
- When: December 27, 2010 - January 3, 2011
- Where: Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula
Retreats
Long Weekend Kula Catskills Escape
- Who: Alex Auder and Erin Dudley of the Kula Yoga Project
- What: Three days upstate with waterfalls, swimming holes, hikes, and two-a-day classes with "generous, revelatory, hands-on assists and mind-blowingly-trippy savasanas and meditations"
- Where: The Waterfall House in the Catskills, 2.5 hours north of NYC
- When: August 19 - 22, 2010
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Retreats
Slaves to the Waves in Costa Rica with Kula
- Who/What: Schuyler Grant, yoga rock star, and Allison Sinatra, yogi and board certified shaman, take a who's who of Tribeca's hardcore and trendy Kula Yoga Project for a week of yoga and surfing at a private beach in Costa Rica.
- Why: Some retreats serve up yoga and hotel rooms, others massages and organic food. SOME freaks, however, will take you on a shamanic journey to the depths of your soul, and ALSO give you the surfing, yoga, organic food, and massages. Nevermind the howler monkeys, macaws, and mangoes, and the interesting cross-section of very limber New Yorkers....
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Hot Tickets: Wanderlust Previews and Eddie Stern at the Urban Zen Foundation
It's rainy in New York — maybe also where you are? — and we all wish we were partying like rock stars in Austin at South by Southwest. Whatevs. New York yogis have at least two promising events to look forward to....
Starting this Wednesday evening, Eddie Stern will teach a weekly, led Astanga yoga class at Donna Karan's Urban Zen Center. Who's Eddie, and so what? Oh, grasshopper. In New York, Eddie is perhaps the staunchest keeper of the Ashtanga yoga flame, the designated representative of Ashtanga's founder, the late Sri Pattabhi Jois. Full cultural significance detailed after the jump, but suffice to say this is opening Wednesday, and it should be an interesting scene. Price of admission $20.
Separate and unrelated: On Saturday, the Wanderlust crowd (please recall the annual Yoga Rock Festival in Lake Tahoe) are hosting a pre-festival, momentum gathering bash at Kula Yoga Project. Two hours of "tag team vinyasa classes" with the ever-popular Elena Brower and Schuyler Grant, among others, backed by a crowd of yogi musicians. Naturally, class will be followed by a game of late night Extreme Twister. It's kind of pricey at $40, but can you really price late night Extreme Twister? Also, you get in free if you buy a Wanderlust ticket, and some of the proceeds go to cool charities.
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Retreats
Hard Core/Soft Core Berkshires Weekend Retreat
- Who: Schuyler Grant, director of the Kula Yoga Project
- What: A weekend of heat-building vinyasa yoga focused on strengthening and opening the core, combined with a diet of cleansing macrobiotic food from Kripalu's "Buddha Bar." Designed for intermediate/advanced yogis.
- When: March 12 - 14, 2010
Openings
SoulCycle Opens "Temple" in Tribeca
SoulCycle, heretofore, a strictly uptown and Hamptons phenomenon is heading downtown. Recall that SoulCycle, beloved by Kelly Ripa (if not Anderson Cooper), is affluent New York's soulful answer to spinning. According to an email that hit our inbox this morning, SoulCycle will open a new studio on Warren Street in Tribeca on January 15th. In addition to a traditional 65 bike spin studio, the SoulCylers are introducing a "Soul Lab," a.k.a. "an intimate 30-bike studio with mats in between the bikes to facilitate our BRAND NEW ONE-HOUR SOUL CLASSES!" What's a "Soul Class?" Think 30 mintues of spinning followed by 30 minutes of powerflow yoga, or 45 minutes of spinning followed by 15 minutes of ab work.
Actually, it sounds pretty good, though admittedly there might be a limit to how deep one can get into savasana while lying at the foot of a spin cycle in a puddle of sweat. Regardless, the real news here is that Tribeca is fast becoming the epicenter of the global fiterati. Residents of Warren Street can now spin at SoulCycle and do yoga up the street at the Kula Yoga Project. Or they might just stroll around the corner to Equinox's Tribeca outpust, or hike eight blocks north to work out with Gwyneth at Tracy Anderson's new (and strangely un-buzzy) studio. Move over Malibu.
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Yoga Retreats
Kula Yoga Crew Goes to Panama
Who: Alex Auder and David Regelin of Tribeca's increasingly hot Kula Yoga Project. Likely to draw Kula loyalists, a crew of downtowners with serious practices, i.e. the sort who might have a tattoo or two and get to downward dog via hand stand -- though also the stray Brooklyn writer, or Wall Streeter with a heart and eager for a change of scenery.
What: Three meals a day. Surfing and acupuncture on demand. Stay in a bunk house, a cabana, or an actual house....
Where: "Off the grid" at "ecologically sustainable" Rancho Kula on Panama's Pacific Coast at the Playa Venao. (Fly to Panama City.)
When: February 21-28
Why: The name of the retreat is "Change Your Life Forever." Which is to say Alex and David have a sense of humor. David's regulars are addicted to his "Multi-Intenso" style of acrobatic, muscular flow. Alex is Jivamukti trained and grew up in the Chelsea Hotel with a mom who hosted Kirtan evenings. Two hours of yoga a day with these two might just change your life. Also, they say the surf break is very good. In short, this will be a funky, fun trip.
How Much:~$1,200, depending on lodging option
Link: Kula Yoga Project. (Click through on "Retreats.")
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Fall Yoga Retreats: Schuyler Grant At Kripalu
I’ve never taken Schuyler’s Grant’s class, but everyone in the city loves her— all you have to do is say her name and yogis everywhere start freaking out. Recently singled out by The New York Times as one of New York's top advanced level teachers, she’s the founder and boss of Kula Yoga, and inventor of the studio's trademark “Kula Flow” style. She's also an all-around mellow, rockstar guru. At Wanderlust, which she and her crew helped host, she actually won the massive yogi Twister game -- but gave up her prize. 'nuff said. Anyhoo, Schuyler is leading a retreat in late October at Kripalu called Stoking the Inner Fire. Think Berkshires, foliage, Norman Rockwell, and wood fired saunas. Need help putting away the bikini and dealing with falling leaves? Check it....
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Multi Intenso Yoga
In the New York yoga scene, there are certain hub studios, places with street cred that attract regulars with strong practices. (Compared to these places, gym yogis and Bikram fans are strictly bridge-and-tunnel.) Among the hubs, in Tribeca, is the Kula Yoga Project, a crunchy, well-run studio, up a long flight of rickety stairs, which packs them in nearly ten times a day. The teaching is generally above average, with certain standouts.
Among the latter is David Andre Regelin, a tall, dark-haired yoga Adonis with an evangelical following. "I used to be a spinning junkie," raved one petitie Italian woman to me, "and I never thought yoga could give me the same kind of high. Then I discovered David."
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