camminando | Yoga in Public Spaces

Outdoor yoga practice is not new, but perhaps yoga as a celebratory experience shared by many practitioners is not usual, at least in the Western world.

I applaud the effort of NYC park department to promote free fitness activities as a collective experience. My visual memories of the latest participatory yoga practices in public spaces, from the Hudson River waterfront Plaza at 66 Street to Bryant Park,

Yoga in Bryant Park

Yoga at sunset by the Hudson River at the Plaza (66 Street)

My individual practice in public space: Four Freedom Park, Roosevelt Island

Events | NYC, Public Art Fund / "Walk the Walk" Performance at Bryant Park

In Bryant Park (back of the NYC Public Library) you will be able to see for all this week, Monday through Friday 10-20:30, the installation/performance "Walk the Walk", created (but not performed) by the artist Kate Gilmore: several yellow dressed women walk on the top of a yellow cubic structure.

Quite colorful, nice to look at, although the performers seems to be quite tired. I could not understand if they were acting or it was real fatigue from several hours of walking and being looked at.

If you are in search for meaning I am doubtful you will find it here...but it's NYC