Laughing Lotus Yoga Center is on East 19th between Fifth & Sixth Avenues in New York City

…is where I go for yoga when I am in New York (or in San Francisco) – I plan my schedule of meetings and appointments each day around the class that I want to go to – because it has a neighborhoody communal vibe, serious/challenging yoga classes, and fun teachers (one of them casually gave me a few quick and simple hand-stand pointers that made me levitate up with no problem after months of struggling), plus, if I am lucky enough to be in town on a Friday night they have a two hour midnight yoga class with live music – there is usually about five or ten minutes of chatty stuff at the beginning, but once that is over it really gets going. (website and a teacher, Bryn, answers some questions for the New York Times)