Reader report: Yoga studio for 7th and B

Amaran, the imported home goods store, closed on Avenue B at East Seventh Street back in February. Reliable sources on the block have told us that a yoga studio will be taking over the space... No other details at the moment... Except that someone recently covered the interior windows...

Noted

Yoga guru Bikram Choudhury is suing Yoga to the People on St. Mark's Place. Choudhury claims that founder Gregory Gumucio is illegally using his copyrighted poses and super-heated rooms inside Yoga to the People classes, according to DNAinfo.

Om-M-G! Yoga instructor buys $1.2 million pad in the Christodora

Back in October, Curbed featured a recently renovated one-bedroom home in the Christodora House on Avenue B... $1.348 million was the asking price at the time. This unit at 4C was "gut renovated by Manifold Architecture Studio and published in 2008 as part of James Grayson Trulove's 25 book series," as Curbed noted. The price was reduced by 4 percent to $1,295 million on Oct. 31. It went into contract for the $1,295 million on Jan. 7.

Yesterday, BlockShopper featured the buyer:

Nisha Kewalramani, a yoga teacher with the Universal Force Healing Center in New York City. She earned her bachelor's in psychology from NYU and her yoga certification form The Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, N.M.

And from the looks of this home, it should be enough to help achieve supreme awareness and enlightenment...

The Bhakti Center is opening a cafe in their First Avenue yoga HQ

The Hare Krishnas’ Sanctuary vegetarian eatery on First Avenue between First Street and Second Street has sat empty for several years...



...until now. The Bhakti Center, which has yoga classes and other events on the upper floors here at 25 First Avenue, is opening a cafe on the ground level.



For further reading:
Hare Krishnas clash as eviction effort divides First Ave. building (The Villager)

Noted

Doing yoga with your dog. (The New York Times)

[Photo: Michael Nagle for The New York Times]