September 25, 2011

Above: Yoga Local Launch Party, New York, November, 2009

Yoga Local NYC has curated this Sunday morning outdoor yoga series for the BMW Guggenheim Lab. Please join us for challenging and inspiring classes from a selection of local yoga studios. The heart of yoga is both physical and mental: residing in the dynamic, living tension created by challenging one’s self to grow while accepting our human limitations. Yoga practice can be seen as the embodiment of the BMW Guggenheim Lab’s mission in New York: confronting comfort. Yoga mats will be provided.

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Photo: courtesy Yoga Local by Kelly Guenther

Take control of your health with free massage therapy, acupuncture, and herbal medicine consultations, as well as workshops and demonstrations led by Third Root Community Health Center that will highlight ways in which health care can be affordable for all.

Photo: used under Creative Commons from Dennis Wong

In collaboration with Third Root Community Health Center, playwright Eisa Davis and singer, teacher, and activist Morley explore alternatives to pills and “health care." Catch this medicine show full of insta-yoga, curative herbs, DIY acupuncture, lively music, and revelatory narratives—a movement in every sense of the word—brought to you by the practitioners and participants of Third Root Community Health Center.

Photo: used under Creative Commons from Lars Plougmann

Lab Team member Omar Freilla of Green Worker Cooperatives wraps up the two and a half weeks of programs he’s brought to the Lab—workshops, screenings, tours, music and theater, how-to sessions, presentations, and celebrations—with an animated talk that brings together lessons learned along the way. Omar will reflect on the goals of the Lab and the outcomes so far in order to pass the programming stick to the next Lab Team member, Charles Montgomery.

Photo © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

Since 1979 Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City’s Lower East Side, a neighborhood famed for art, music, and revolutionary minds. Traversing the outside edge, he’s recorded a dark and colorful society, from drag to hardcore, heroin, homelessness, political chaos, and ultimately gentrification. His odyssey from voyeur to provocateur reveals that it can take losing everything you love to find your own significance.

Text: courtesy Remy Chevalier