Social Workout

Yoga Live from MoMA   Caught up with Susanna Harwood-Rubin last night after her 8 P.M. class at Virayoga, the SoHo hub of Anusara. Susanna told me about an extraordinary class that Virayoga founder Elena Brower taught at the MoMA in February: Over 100 people, spread out in the cavernous Marron Atrium, surrounded on all sides by a video installation by the artist Pipilotti Rist. Elena is a yoga rock star, her normal classes are packed with beautiful, downtowners, and the MoMA class is exactly the sort of creative mix of body and culture and community that inspires Social Workout. I was crushed to have missed the event, of course, but, surfing around this morning, I discovered the audio podcast. Your living room with laptop or iPod is not the same as at MoMA with 100 or so others, but it might not be a bad solution for a wet, snowy day. Check it: Elena Brower and Pipilotti Rist, Live from the MoMa.