Shawna Emerick – Creating Happy, Healthy and Confident Lives

Yoga instructor and professional coach Shawna Emerick talks about how moving to New York helped her discover how to pursue the calling she’s had since childhood. Tell me how you got started. When I was in high school, people seemed to know what they wanted to do with their lives.  All I knew is that Read more about Shawna Emerick – Creating Happy, Healthy and Confident Lives[…]

Bread & Yoga – Creating Excuses to Have Community

Marcela Xavier opened the Bread & Yoga studio in 2009 in Inwood (Northernmost Manhattan), a neighborhood with many health-conscious individuals, but few wellness-oriented business. While opening a yoga studio in a neighborhood filled with families, actors and performers made business sense, Xavier was actually just looking for an excuse to create community. Xavier finds that Read more about Bread & Yoga – Creating Excuses to Have Community[…]

Devyn Rush – An American Idol Gets UGLY

When I was in middle school, I was bullied a lot, for being scrawny. That was what the bullies led me to believe, anyway. Now, years later, I realize that it was my lack of self-esteem and awareness that really caused the bullying. I didn’t embrace the way I was different, and I didn’t know Read more about Devyn Rush – An American Idol Gets UGLY[…]

MC Yogi – Beat Boxing the Change

For a good time, sit next to the beat-happy, Krishna-crazed love machine known as MC Yogi (AKA Nick Giacomini) as he works his creative magic up in his Northern California studio, Photoshopping all kinds of dazzling personal India travel photos into wild collage art that will serve as backdrop for his “cosmic, electrifying” new shows Read more about MC Yogi – Beat Boxing the Change[…]