New York
Retreats
Catskills Post-Labor Day Yoga Weekend
- Who: Yoga instructor Marisa Sako
- What: Vinyasa yoga, home cooked meals, swimming, bocci, badminton, horseshoes, and general farmhouse relaxing.
- When: September 10 - 12, 2010 (the weekend after Labor Day)
- Where: Franklin, New York (in the Catskills) with accommodations at Heathen Hill
New York
Intramural Sports
Find a Pick Up Game Near You
This year marks the first in my entire life where I have lived by a park. And while this may not seem too interesting to you, as a homegrown Texan, parks populated by people are still pretty new and exciting to me, even if said people are lovely, dirty, tattooed hipsters. In honor of parks in general, and my wiffle ball pickup game midnight last Friday, I’ve got an exciting list of intramural pickup sites — from basketball to ultimate frisbee — you can use to rack up some intramural minutes this month, no long-term commitment required.
More...Poet Laureate
Poetry-Inspired Walks to Remember
April is National Poetry Month, and as one of the undergraduate poets at the Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival last week declared in a reading, it's also the month "the sky shook off its clothes and was brilliant." With the influx of (mostly) good weather, and the Million Minute Month staring down its well-measured and long barrel at us, it's time to peek our wintered heads out of our proverbial doors and start poking around again. In honor of poetry, and weather, and accruing those walking minutes, I've assembled a few walks to try, from the Edgar Allan Poe Walking Tour to the Windy City Stroll. Links after the jump.
More...Good Questions
Where to play soccer in New York?
Do you know of any very amateur soccer leagues in New York? Nothing too, too crazy structured, and it could be women or co-ed? My friends are too lazy to do anything, or they're pregnant. Or both. ~ Sara. S. of New York
Good question. Clearly Sara has been keeping up on all the research about how great soccer is for you, (perhaps because it simulates interval training). Sadly, we're a little thin on New York soccer league coverage. At the high end, there is the Cosmopolitan League (around since 1923), and at the fun end there is New York Coed Soccer League, but there must be other choices too. Little help from the soccer players out there?
New York
Workout
i had a walk for lunch today
walk walk walk. for my lunch break today, i decided to walk midtown manhattan for about 20+ blocks round trip. check it out:
Survey Says
Welcome to New York, the Most Miserable State in the Country
New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey are the least happy states in the union. A new study just published in Science, ranks them dead last in terms of good cheer, after every other state and the District of Columbia. Mississippi, the fattest state, is the 6th happiest state, right after Louisiana, Hawaii, Florida, Tennessee, and Arizona. Apparently sunshine accounts for a lot. Though California is 46th in terms of happiness, so sunshine isn't everything.
So what's a tri-state area resident to do? If you don't want to move to Tennessee, you might stop and recall that study we told you about a couple of weeks ago showing that exercise alleviates depression, especially if you keep an exercise log. So New Yorkers, you live in a bummer of a state, but Social Workout wants to help! 15 days left in the Emergency Holiday Challenge. Log your workouts, and you'll get a little of that Louisiana sunshine in your heart without actually having to go there.
New York
Propaganda
Bloomberg Attacks Soda with Awesome Gross Videos
On Monday, the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, released the second phase of its surprisingly aggressive anti-soda campaign: See nasty video after the jump which reminds us of Bill Murray's classic SNL commercial for Swill, the mineral water dredged straight from Lake Eerie.... (Via @jensmccabe.)
More...New York
Wake Up Call
On Funny and Playgrounds
You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
Workout
Yoga to the Young and the Heavy Breathing and Beautiful People
So I finally went, and I'll be going back. It's crazy. It's the zeitgeist. I'm not sure it's about yoga per se, as much as it's about youth and the East Village and bodies and breathing and group catharsis. But those are good things too....