The Breathing Project is hosting David Sykes and his Harmonic Choir, “the world’s leading overtone choir,” this Friday, October 30 at 7:30pm. What is harmonic singing? From the website:

Harmonic Chant is part of a 14-billion year old tradition — the harmonic presence illuminating every nook and cranny of the cosmic space. Those subtle waves of photonal warmth, the cosmic background radiation, still radiate across the sky in every direction, in waves as wide as 2 full moons.

“David Hykes’s music is haunting and transporting. It takes you some place like the Sahara desert, somewhere completely otherworldly. It transports you to the Ancient Time.
While searching for music for my film ‘Travellers and Magicians,’ I listened to so much music. But I always came back to David’s. From the moment I heard it, there was no doubt.” — Revered incarnate Tibetan lama Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

It’s not quite chanting, not quite ambient techno. It’s sure to vibrate your brain in a million directions. If you’ve never heard this type of thing, it’s worth experiencing in person.

Preview the music on CD Baby

Watch a performance on YouTube

Tickets are $35. All proceeds go to benefit the Breathing Project’s teacher training scholarship fund. There’s also a workshop with David Sykes the next day (Halloween) from 6-9pm.

Dance Dance Party Party

Oooh! Dance New Amsterdam, one of the oldest studios in town, is having free classes all day tomorrow! It’s a celebration of their 25th anniversary.

From 10:00am – 7:00pm FREE classes in modern, ballet, contemporary, hip hop, jazz, pilates and yoga and more will be offered by DNA’s first-rate faculty: Gail Accardi, Georgina Aragon, Alexandra Beller, Julie Bour, Rebecca Burton, Martha Chapman, Janessa Clark, Sarah Clark, Jennie Cohen, Wendell Cooper, Amy Cushing, Laurie De Vito, Chris Heller, Nathalie Jonas, Katiti King, Anabella Lenzu, Nia Love, Diane McCarthy, Darcy Naganuma, Te Perez, TaraMarie Perri, Megan Philipp, Ambere Rogers, Benny Simon, Sasha Soreff, Oliver Steele, Teri Steele, Al Turner, Julie Turner, Sophia Fatouros, and Jayson Vasquez.

For more info, visit the event page: http://www.dnadance.org/site/about/our-25th-birthday/

The Fitbit. Attaches anywhere, measures everything. Calories burned in your rocking chair. Miles traveled up and down your staircase. Percentage of sleep that was uninterrupted. (Why limit OCD to your waking hours?)

The thing uploads your data, anytime you walk within 15 feet of the base station. (And it doesn’t make you subscribe to MobileMe.) It just gives you lots of pretty charts and graphs.

You can even make it a nutrition journal, if you have the discipline to write down every single thing that you eat. Supposedly that’s very revealing.

Does it come with an intern to wear it around for you?

Acupuncture Happy Hour

Two-for-one specials, happy hours… needles? Welcome to New York!

Fridays at the Breathing Project, Gotham Wellness is offering 30-minute group acupuncture treatments, held in a candlelit yoga room. (Although it is a group treatment, there is plenty of personal space and privacy, and all participants remain fully clothed.)

Founder Stefanie DiLibero has a Masters degree and several professional certificates in acupuncture, as well as a 500-hour yoga teaching certification. She has years of clinical experience in both acupuncture and Chinese medicine.

The cost is only $25. (I’ve seen other acupuncture sessions run $200 an hour.) Take a date to get pierced!

You can drop in anytime between 6:30 and 8:00, or reserve your spot online at www.gothamwellness.com/events.php

See you there?

NOTE: This post was updated to correct the price info.

Which way the wind is blowing...

Where do you find answers to your major life decisions? Hopefully you have a few trusted friends. Maybe your family still gives good advice. Obviously you have Google. But at some point aren’t you tired of digesting everyone else’s advice? Where’s your intuition?

Once I started listening, I found answers everywhere. Some are quiet, some are loud. Here are five clear flags I learned to trust.

Read the whole thing on the Huffington Post: 5 Clear Flags of Hidden Intuition

Gosha I borrowed your photo

Crazy week last week, but I kept up a daily practice, a MORNING practice no less, for the length of it. Why? I got off on a good foot last weekend (a blissful hiking/yoga retreat with some Russian friends)… and my morning practice is 15 minutes short!

3-5 sun salutations, left and right sides

100 breaths of fire (in Plank)

2 handstands

That’s it. It’s delicious and fun, I’m so stiff that I don’t try to stretch, I just step back all sloppy and sleepy. And it wakes me up and sets the tone for the day.

And, five minutes of meditation after I get off my computer each night has cleared my insomnia! Yoga EXPRESS, love it.

[I'm just writing this so I remember that daily practice doesn't have to be a big ordeal.]

NYC Veg Fest

Sunday, October 11th
Tompkins Square Park

The 1st edition of NYC VegFest is an outdoor festival —come rain or shine from 11am to 6pm, we will celebrate Vegetarianism. It is free to the public.

Free yoga classes at 11am and 3:30pm.

Happy Hips & Hamstrings

Monday, October 12th, 7-8:15PM
Lululemon Brooklyn: 472 Bergen St.

Any runner knows that tight hamstrings and hips are one of the drawbacks of their favorite activity. In this 75 minute class, Julie Dohrman, a certified Anusara Yoga instructor and lululemon athletica Brooklyn Showroom Ambassador will teach you the quickest and easiest poses to keep your hips and hamstrings open. Aligning the legs offers not only increased flexibility for your hips, it also opens the spine and shoulders for greater freedom of movement, even in walking. All Runners and non-runners welcome! No prior yoga experience required.