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WHAT: A free yoga-fest in the heart of Times Square. Both experienced and beginning Yoga enthusiasts find tranquility and transcendence in the midst of the urban energy of the world's most commercial and frenetic place.
WHEN: Saturday, June 21, 2008
WHERE: In Times Square, at the intersection of Broadway and 7th Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets
ADMISSION: Free.
THANKS TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED!
LEAD INSTRUCTORS
CLICK HERE to read the bios of our lead instructors. More >>
Participants also received free SOYJOY eco-friendly bags filled with gifts from SOYJOY, Snapple Antioxidant Water, Yoga Journal, Danskin, Body Shop and coupons from yoga studios located throughout the New York City area. The first 300 arrivals received a free Danskin Yoga Mat.
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Between classes, author and Yoga Journal blogger Valerie Reiss shared tips on how to keep sane in this big, busy city – or for that matter, any intense urban area.
She is the author of the Yoga Journal blog “Samadhi in the City” which regularly discusses ways to deal with busy city life. (“Samadhi” is loosely translated as a state of deep meditation or concentration that is a goal of yoga practice.) |
Solstice in Times Square Waiver
Participants in Solstice in Times Square Yoga sessions are required to review and sign this waiver. If you'd like to acclerate your check-in process on the day of the event, please click here to download the waiver to print out and bring with you.
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ABOUT SOLSTICE IN TIMES SQUARE
The Times Square Alliance invites you to join us at our Solstice in Times Square, a celebration of sun, summer and creativity.
For tens of thousands of years and across diverse cultures, the Solstice has always been a key time in our collective human calendar. The Winter Solstice - the shortest day of the year and the point at which the days finally begin to be longer rather than shorter - has been the natural phenomenon underlying some of society's most important rituals, like Christmas and of course, New Year's Eve.
The Summer Solstice - the longest day of the year - has not held quite so prominent a place, at least in Western consciousness. Some historians have argued that public recognition of the Summer Solstice has faded because some of the ideas with which the date was associated in early cultures - femininity, fertility and creativity - were deemed subversive by the then powers-that-be.
Whatever the explanation, we at the Times Square Alliance, as custodians of the world's best-known Winter Solstice celebration (a.k.a. New Year's Eve), decided to do our part to revive the Summer Solstice. The underlying natural metaphor may be different: we are not turning from dark to light, from night to day, with all the implications for hope and renewal that those ideas encompass. But we are, on the longest day of the year, drawing on the full force and energy of the sun and are ideally at the height of our creative powers. We have more potential to draw strength from nature than on any other day and, perhaps, like the ancients thought, we are even more fertile (Times Square has always been about sex, right?)
SUMMER SOLSTICE: HISTORY, SCIENCE AND CULTURE
An overview of summer solstice traditions, facts, themes and controversies. More>>
The first day of my two-year teacher training program, I experienced something akin to an existential crisis. It didn't have anything to do with awakening kundalini or realizing my true Self. Sadly, it was much more mundane: It hit when I realized that in order to participate in the program, I had to agree to the mandate to "have your own home practice." Continue Reading >>
For questions about Solstice in Times Square, please email events@timessquarenyc.org.
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