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Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Sarah Brown
A new yoga sanctuary offers more than 100 classes a week in one luxurious location.
Morning Mysore in midtown; after-work Bikram downtown. Ironically, yoga, at its very essence about the union of things--body and mind, breath and movement--has become as fractured as frenzied urban living. Till now. Say namaste to Pure, a Hong Kong--based yoga emporium that has teamed up with Equinox to open its first U.S. outpost, on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Pure's motto, "Many practices, one intention," sums up its paradigm-shifting mandate: to bring together a diversity of yoga traditions--nineteen, to be exact--all under a single, elegantly appointed roof ($140 a month buys unlimited classes). "We wanted to create an environment where the best teachers from every school of yoga thought imaginable could cross-pollinate, where students of all proficiencies and interests could come and learn," says Lisa Hedley, Pure's creative consultant.
The sheer transporting gorgeousness of the space itself is closer to a spa in aesthetic than any place heretofore haunted by a downward dog. ...