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Wellness Happy Hour at Brooklyn Cat Cafe

This Wednesday, May 10th, the Brooklyn Cat Cafe will hold a Spring Wellness and Happy Hour from 7:15 to 10 pm. All proceeds from this event will benefit Brooklyn Bridge Animal Welfare Coalition and their rescue work. Luisa Noelle of New York New You will lead a one-hour Vinyasa yoga class, which will be followed by […]

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Free Meditation and Breathing Sessions At Eastern Athletic’s SciYoga

Hayley Winter’s SciYoga studio at Eastern Athletic is offering free yoga breathing and meditation sessions for the next few weeks. “It is an expression of solidarity to support people with post election anxiety and frustration,” Winter wrote in an e-mail announcing the sessions. Free sessions will take place from 6 – 6:45 pm on Sunday, […]

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Free yoga tonight!

Hayley Winter of Yoga Sports Science at Eastern Athletic is offering a free 45-minute yoga class tonight to help you deal with whatever stress you might be feeling about the election. The yoga/meditation session begins at 6 pm; book your spot by 3 pm today by e-mailing sessions@sciyoga.com. Space is limited. In addition to offering […]

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Breathing and the presidency: Local yoga teacher weighs in

For the last four months, Hayley Winter has been teaching yoga classes at Eastern Athletic Club as part of her Yoga Sports Science Institute. Offering classes in the morning, mid-day, and evening, she focuses on using the science of yoga to eliminate pain and stiffness and increase balance and flexibility, in a departure from traditional yoga […]

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Cats & Mats: Yoga at Brooklyn Cat Cafe on Sunday

What better way to start your Sunday than with stretching and yoga surrounded by felines? Join Luisa Noelle Howell at Brooklyn’s own cat cafe on Atlantic Avenue this Sunday morning at 9:30. A certified personal trainer and yoga guide, Howell makes her cat café debut.  Come stretch your body and your mind while spending some […]

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Cats With Mats: Sunday Yoga at the Brooklyn Cat Cafe

Brooklyn Bridge Animal Welfare Coalition’s very own cat cafe opened last weekend to brisk business  (full post to come on that soon), entertaining visitors of all ages who have packed the place at 149 Atlantic Avenue, only too happy to hang out with cats and kittens in the cozy space. But on Sunday morning (May […]

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Some Scenes From a Pier One Walk

On Friday morning I took a quick turn around Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, before heading to work. As I was lining up a shot of Mark di Suvero’s Yoga, a small branch with some dry leaves fell in front of me. I didn’t notice it until I downloaded the photo; it’s at the right […]

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Area Yoga Opens Second Studio At 144 Montague St.

Got your knickers in a knot? Perhaps Area Yoga Center can help. The popular Carroll Gardens studio and spa is opening a second destination in Brooklyn Heights at 144 Montague Street, between Henry and Clinton streets. Owner Loretta Gendville says the new store is scheduled to open some time in April. Area Yoga was founded […]

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