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Heidi Kristoffer

It was love at first Vinyasa for this NYC Yoga Teacher when a Google search for gyms in Heidi's new neighborhood took her to Sonic Yoga. Practicing everyday since, Heidi is immensely grateful to have the opportunity to learn from the plethora of amazing teachers NYC has to offer. Looking to deepen her spiritual practice, Heidi enrolled in Teacher Training at Laughing Lotus, where she discovered a great passion for teaching. Inversion obsessed, and addicted to sweaty vinyasa flows, Heidi's need to fuel her body coupled with her infatuation with delicious vegan food, started a quest to find the best of the best restaurants in NYC, making her the go to for all advice vegan and yoga.

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03.12.12 04:10 PM
Flipping Your Perspective & Finding the Beauty in Everything

This morning, I found myself closing a restorative home yoga practice with a two-minute plank. Even I had to laugh at...More»

01.30.12 03:05 PM
Handstands Heal

When I was 18, I was in a serious car accident that let to what I was told would be "permanent damage" to my neck and cervical spine. My doctors at the time told me that I would never regain...More»

09.23.11 09:45 AM
Listen to YOU!

Everyone has an opinion, and everyone is right. Sometimes when I ask a general question (or even if I don't) I feel like I get some many conflicting "recommendations" that my head spins. Do this, don't do that.More»

08.30.11 11:00 AM
Super-Easy Yoga Mat Cleaning

Living in NYC, I don't have the space to submerge my yoga mat in water and then allow it to dry, so I needed a less space-needy way to clean my mat. Here is what I came up with...More»

07.25.11 03:30 PM
Letting Go to Fly Over Your Fears

When I first came to yoga, I was extremely inflexible in my body and in my mind. Super type-A, a total control freak. The concept or idea of "letting go" or "trusting in a higher power" was completely ludicrous to me.More»

06.22.11 01:45 PM
There Is No Competition in Yoga

I was recently asked in a beautifully candid email if I had any advice for a yoga teacher who had a "burning desire" to "achieve certain poses" they couldn't "wait to teach in class" fully recognizing yoga" is not a competition."...More»

05.02.11 12:45 PM
Faith Restored Through Yoga

When I was a very young child, I thought God was many things. At one point, our priest showed up at our door to play tennis with my parents, and I informed them "God is here, and he is wearing tennis whites!"...More»

04.27.11 10:30 AM
Arm Balances: Gateway to Female Empowerment

"Oh My Buddha! I am holding my entire body weight in my arms, balancing on my hands! I am holding myself up! I am SUPPORTING myself! NO WAY!" -- Just a few of the many ecstatic thoughts...More»

04.12.11 10:30 AM
Vegan Protein Bar Breakdown

Certain situations in one's life require protein bars. If one is a vegan, it can be incredibly frustrating trying to find a protein/energy/meal/nutrition bar with... protein. When I first started traveling a lot, and...More»

03.02.11 10:30 AM
Vegan Food Guide to New York City

Being born allergic to dairy, eggs, seafood and shellfish (and then, of course, willingly eliminating animals from my diet), eating out has always been a challenge. It wasn’t until a friend took me to RFD in LA several years back, that for the first...More»

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