I had just enjoyed a cocktail at Blue Smoke which I thought would be the perfect foreplay for popping my cherry at the Museum of Sex. But I hadn’t even made my way through the museum boutique before my heart started racing and my palms started to sweat. There I was, all hot and bothered, amongst a sea of couples engaged in PDA.
It’s amazing how emotional stuff stays stifled in the strata of our beings. We carry it around allowing its subtle and subconscious influences to affect our relationships and life choices. Imagine if we could unlock the negative, deep-seated emotions that deprive us of our power, joy, balance, creativity, love, and success?
Pilates neophytes and lifers alike flock to this 2-story Tribeca loft that houses Real Pilates, a more than amply equipped studio dedicated to Classical Pilates instruction. Owner and self-proclaimed Pilates Geek, Alycea Ungaro PT, operates a large staff of diverse and highly trained instructors that keep Pilates authentic, challenging and fun.
Fuerza Bruta provides a highly visceral, atypical theater experience featuring nymph-like ladies swimming in a transparent pool suspended overhead, a treadmill built for five that catapults performers over the edge and a billowing metallic-silver curtain that instantly transforms the theater into a futuristic space.
Whereas I used to be fascinated by self-help books, my literary taste has taken a sharp turn for memoirs about women with conservative backgrounds who become tantalized by the underworld which leads them into double-life scenarios and coming-of-age journeys that awaken themselves to their authenticity. Jillian Lauren’s personal tale is no different.
