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New Community Spaces: metaDEN for POC Opens Bushwick Homebase

metaDEN’s co-founders at the night market: McKenzie Angela Martinez (left), Joss Martinez (right). Arno Pedram/Bklyner.BUSHWICK — MetaDEN’s changing lights ooze on the wet sidewalk: pink, blue, green, orange, red. Inside, vendors — exclusively people of color — are in business for their December night market: selling vegan food, jewelry,

Arts & Culture

New Biz: Diverse & Inclusive Yoga, Thrift Shop, and Gallery Celebrating Women

Welcome to our new business column, where we’ll share all news on expansions, new businesses, pop-ups turned storefronts, and more. Prema YogaPrema Yoga Brooklyn announced its second location in Clinton Hill on October 10, with the original studio in Carroll Gardens. The new, reimagined yoga studio, has a full-floor

Bushwick

Spring Events Come to Bushwick’s Evergreens Cemetery

Doing yoga on the lawn at Evergreens Cemetery (Via Evergreens Cemetery)BUSHWICK – Heading down to the cemetery on the weekend isn’t exactly something the average Brooklynite thinks about. To most, a trip to the cemetery is the last thing they’d like to do—literally. But the Evergreens Cemetery

Arts & Culture

Win a Pair of Tickets to Wanderlust 108

Wanderlust 108 mindful triathlon returns to Brooklyn this September! #ComeTogether in Prospect Park and start the day with a 5K (run/walk), followed by a DJ-powered yoga flow class, and a guided meditation to bring it all home. Expect a little sweat, lots of high-fives, and a deep chill. At

Announcements

#ComeTogether at Wanderlust 108 | September 10th

Photo via Wanderlust 108 San Francisco / Melissa GayleWanderlust 108 is coming to Prospect Park on Sunday, September 10th! #ComeTogether for a 5K run (or walk), DJ-powered yoga session, and guided meditation. You can also chill in the Kula Market, packed with funky local crafts and delicious organic foods. After meditation,

Events

Wanderlust Festival Draws More Than 8,000 Yogis To Prospect Park

Photo by Dina Rabiner / Park Slope StoopSunday, September 11 marked the third annual Wanderlust Festival in Prospect Park, a “field day for your mind, body and soul” combining yoga, a 5K run, dancing, outdoor activities like hooping and slack lining, and a marketplace full of green vendors that created a

Central Brooklyn

Wanderlust Festival Draws More Than 8,000 Yogis To Prospect Park

(Photo by Dina Rabiner / Ditmas Park Corner)Sunday, September 11 marked the third annual Wanderlust Festival in Prospect Park, a “field day for your mind, body and soul” combining yoga, a 5K run, dancing, outdoor activities like hooping and slack lining, and a marketplace full of green vendors that created

Central Brooklyn

The World’s Only Mindful Triathlon (Sponsored)

Courtesy of WanderlustWanderlust 108 Brooklyn Sunday, September 11 | 9:30am to 5:45pm Prospect Park at the Nethermeade Wanderlust 108, the world’s only mindful triathlon is coming to Brooklyn! This is a field day for your mind, body, and soul, leaving you feeling better than when you arrived. Start

Events

The World’s Only Mindful Triathlon (Sponsored)

Courtesy of WanderlustWanderlust 108 Brooklyn Sun. September 11 | 9:30a – 5:45p Prospect Park (Nethermeade) Wanderlust 108, the world’s only mindful triathlon is coming to Brooklyn! This is a field day for your mind, body, and soul, leaving you feeling better than when you arrived. Start the day with

Central Brooklyn

Ditmas Park Weekday Events Spotlight: August 8–August 11

East 19th Street. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Staying home for the August vacation exodus? Celebrate the late summer with 10 local events for everyone — whether you’re looking to tour Prospect Park’s bat population or historic architecture at the Kings Theater, discover local artists or catch some stars

Announcements

Looking To Become A Yoga Teacher? (Sponsored)

When Yuuki and Ariel created the Dou Yoga Teacher Training in 2012, they wanted to offer a training that was different: They didn’t want to teach about yoga, they wanted the yoga to be genuinely experienced; rather than learning about poses, philosophy, anatomy, pranayama, ethics, etc. each portion of

Business

Looking To Become A Yoga Teacher? (Sponsored)

When Yuuki and Ariel created the Dou Yoga Teacher Training in 2012, they wanted to offer a training that was different: They didn’t want to teach about yoga, they wanted the yoga to be genuinely experienced; rather than learning about poses, philosophy, anatomy, pranayama, ethics, etc. each portion of

Central Brooklyn

Ditmas Park Weekday Events Spotlight: July 25–July 28

Riis Park beach. (Photo by simplyfetchingco / Instagram)Welcome to the week, whether you’re looking to see up-and-coming comedians, join a book club, or wind down with some park yoga — this is your spot for the hottest weekday events in (and immediately around) Ditmas Park. If you have an event

Central Brooklyn

Join a Personal Approach to Yoga (Sponsored)

There’s a different kind of yoga taught at Church Ave Yoga & Bodywork Center (CAYBC) where, in addition to feeling as if you’ve stepped into a colonial American home, with candles lit, a light hint of incense, and the rhythmic sound of deep yogic breathing, students get personalized

Events

Mix One Part Yoga + One Part Whiskey At bend+bloom Yoga On May 6

Photo via bend+bloomMany yoga practitioners have a ritual at the conclusion of their class. It may be as simple as drinking a glass of water or some wheatgrass juice. Perhaps the evening concludes with a warm bath and an early bedtime. This Friday, bend+bloom Yoga (708 Sackett Street

Business

Move With Grace Expands Into Former Karrot Health Food Store On Myrtle Avenue

Photo courtesy of Move With Grace.We’ve got a spring in our step after hearing this news: local yoga and juice studio Move With Grace is expanding to a second location — located just a few doors away at the former Karrot health food store! It’s been a year

City Kid Corner

Give Your City Kid A Mindful Retreat With Some Brooklyn Yoga

With school, sports, dance, friends, and everything in between, it’s understandable that even kids need to find their moments of zen. Luckily for those of us in Brooklyn, yoga programs for kids are easy to find, flexible, and reasonably priced. Not a bad combination. Here are three of our

Business

Child’s Pose Experts: Monkey Do! Family Yoga Studio Opens On 3rd Avenue

Monkey Do! Yoga at 279 3rd Avenue opened December 2015. (Photo by Park Slope Stoop)Maybe it’s the Gowanus water that’s spurring the opening of a series of small studios in that area geared towards making our community fit, mindful, and healthy. A toxic cleanse, or sorts. Back

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Photo Finish: Santa’s Pre-Christmas Yoga Workout

Image via DoYouYoga.Santa is getting in his stretches in preparation for the big night! Keep on sharing photos with us at editor@bklyner.com, add them to our Flickr group, or tag them #ftgfocus on Instagram, and we’ll post them on the site. Also, like us on Facebook,

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Alternative Health Care Thrives In The Neighborhood

Photo by Ditmas Park CornerMaster herbalist and shop owner, Karen Rose, has watched the Ditmas Park community change over the past eight years through her shop window. The walls of her shop, Sacred Vibes Apothecary, off Cortelyou Road, are lined with large tightly capped jars of herbs and spices. They’

City Parks Foundation

Free Senior Yoga Returns To South Oxford Park On Mondays And Wednesdays

Photo by Justina Wong/City Parks Foundation.September isn’t just back-to-school season for kids — it’s also back-to-yoga season for local seniors! Yoga in South Oxford Park — at South Oxford Street and Atlantic Avenue — returns this coming Monday, September 21 and Wednesday, September 23 at 11am, bringing free fitness

Best of Lists

Jaya Yoga Named One Of The Best Yoga Studios In The City

Photo by South Slope NewsCongratulations, Jaya Yoga! The yoga studio that’s located at 1626 8th Avenue in our area and 2902 Fort Hamilton Parkway in Kensington, was just named one of the best yoga spots in the entire city, according to CBS New York. CBS writes: Immaculate and tranquil,

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Jaya Yoga Celebrates 15 Years Of Growth & Community

When Carla Stangenberg first came to Jaya Yoga to teach in 2000, just a few months after it opened, she felt the strong sense of community that was already starting to form. It was that connection that led her to take over the space a few years later, when the

45 5th Avenue

Area Kids On 5th Avenue To Become Area Yoga

The north end of 5th Avenue is getting a new yoga studio this spring. Area Kids, the children’s clothing and toy store with several locations in the area, has closed its shop at 45 5th Avenue, on the corner of Bergen, and the writing on the window says the

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Family Of Light Holistic Center Holds Grand Opening Weekend Tomorrow And Sunday

When neighbors Alaknanda Nabar and Igor Cherski first thought of opening a holistic center in Ditmas Park, the name for it came almost as easily as the desire to run a place that they hope will make the lives of neighbors a little less stressful. “Everybody has always called us