Meditation 101 Surprising Celebrities Who Meditate Now even celebs not known for following a particularly spiritual lifestyle are regularly spotted on the meditation cushion. Find out who they are now. by Alexia Brue
Fitness Tips Class Action: TRX MAX at Equinox This is a traditional interval-training class that incorporates the TRX suspension system. AKA, circuit training on a double serving of steroids. by Alexia Brue
Healthy Eating Tips Refrigerator Look Book: Jenny Hutt We got a look at the fridge of "Just Jenny," the radio personality who uses her popular Sirius/XM show to dish on her weight loss and... by Alexia Brue
Active Recovery The Truth Behind the 10 Biggest Stretching Myths Sue Hitzmann, founder and CEO of MELT Method, debunks 10 of the biggest myths about stretching. by Alexia Brue
Barre Workouts My Summer Vacation: Sadie Lincoln How did some of our favorite wellness world stars spend their days off? Sadie Lincoln, creator of barre3, kicked off her Poconos retreat with yoga on... by Alexia Brue
Vitamins and Supplements The 3 Surprising Beauty Benefits of Omega-3s Omega-3s bestow surprising beauty benefits. SmartyPants Vitamins is an excellent source of these essential fatty acids—snag yours for 20% off! by Alexia Brue
Makeup Tips 5 Clean Lipsticks for Super-Sensitive Lips Do your lips freak out every time you dab them with color? A clean beauty maven with super-sensitive skin shares her picks for the best clean... by Alexia Brue
Healthy Snack Ideas How to Make Almonds Exciting (Without Covering Them in Chocolate) We rounded up some healthy almond recipes–no gross preservatives or piles of sugar–to make your afternoon snack more exciting. by Alexia Brue
Healthy Eating Tips City Bakery’s Maury Rubin: New York’s New Juicing Iconoclast The founder-owner of City Bakery is about to shake up the city's juice orthodoxy with unusual blends and a friendly price-point. by Alexia Brue
Spinning Workouts An Insider’s Guide to Cycling at Equinox Equinox offers a dozen different indoor cycling classes, while the boutique studios have just one. What gives? And which one's for you? We explain. by Alexia Brue
Eating Gluten-Free Don’t Eat Your Wheaties: Why Some Elite Athletes Are Going Gluten-Free More and more Olympic competitors are crediting more energy, better race times, faster recoveries, and fewer injuries to a gluten-free lifestyle. But does the evidence support... by Alexia Brue
Healthy Snack Ideas 4 Great Green Juice Recipes From Coolercleanse Plug in that juicer or blender and make CoolerCleanse's four greatest green juice recipes at home. by Alexia Brue
Fitness Tips Class Action: Shockwave at Equinox Shockwave, Equinox's new class that uses the Indo-Row Machine, is poised to make waves in group fitness. It's the first class to successfully integrate the rowing... by Alexia Brue
Healthy Cooking New York City’s 10 Healthiest Chefs For every cured-meat pro in New York, there’s a white-coat star making vegetables shine. Find out who made the cut for our top 10 healthiest chefs... by Alexia Brue
Pilates Classes Class Action: SLT Yoga For those who want to get their yoga on without having to utter a single Om, there's just launched SLT Yoga, which stands for Strengthen, Lengthen,... by Alexia Brue
Clean Beauty My Five Beauty Obsessions: Cindy Joseph Cindy Joseph is a natural-leaning celebrity makeup artist, a Ford classic model, and the creator of BOOM! cosmetics. Here's what she keeps in her makeup bag.... by Alexia Brue
Sex Advice In Bed With Body Image: How Low Self-Esteem Can Ruin Your Sex Life In an era where poor body image plagues many of us, it’s difficult to have a healthy, fulfilling, great sex life. This sex and self-esteem expert... by Alexia Brue
Yoga Introducing Well+Good’s Ethicist: the Stealing Yoga Teacher As we spend more time sweating together in tight clothes, a whole new genre of ethical conundrums is popping up. We address these issues of sweatiquette.... by Alexia Brue
Holistic Treatment Recipe: the Clean Sweep Smoothie Leap into spring feeling lighter with the Clean Sweep Smoothie. It’s loaded with lymphatic-system-revving ingredients to help unclog your pipes and boost energy. by Alexia Brue
Healthy Mind Kathryn Budig on Body Image and the “Yoga Body” Myth Kathryn Budig dishes on what the controversy around her nude ToeSox ads taught her about the sexualization of women, and body image, in yoga. by Alexia Brue
Vitamins and Supplements 7 Rules for Taking Supplements: How to Determine Your Daily Dose Is your multivitamin enough to make up for our poor food supply or a nutrient-depriving lifestyle? We asked superstar nutritionists for advice on supplementing your diet.... by Alexia Brue
Yoga Studios Near Me Class Action: Deep Extreme at Equinox Fitness classes follow fashion. The city’s gyms and studios constantly launch new “It” classes. In Class Action we dish on what we’re trying, or what we... by Alexia Brue
Yoga Studios Near Me New York City’s Most Beautiful Yoga Studios Let's just come out and say it: Pretty yoga studios matter. We rounded up the nine most design-conscious spaces in the city. by Alexia Brue
Food and Nutrition New York City’s Healthiest Burgers Healthy types now have their pick of better-for-you burgers at hot spots across the city. We wrecked a lot of napkins to find the standouts. Here... by Alexia Brue
Spinning Workouts Five Biggest Fitness Cults Certain studios inspire cult-like devotion, and have sparked communities of fitness-obsessed followers. These 5 fascinating workouts are lifestyles unto themselves. by Alexia Brue
Skin-Care Tips Dermalogica’s Sliding-Scale Facials In luxury facial land, there's only one price point—exorbitant. But Dermalogica offers a refreshing take with three price points for facials—starting at $35. by Alexia Brue
Healthy Meal Ideas The Healthiest Ice Creams in New York We taste-tested our way through the city’s yummiest creamy offerings—many of which don’t contain a drop of dairy. Here are our seven favorite servings. by Alexia Brue
Gardening Tips How to Turn Your Pickup Truck Into a Garden Truck Farm, Ian Cheney's urban experiment, pulls into a theater near you. The documentary hopes to inspire a creative crop of city gardens. Maybe even you.... by Alexia Brue
Fitness Tips With Metamorphosis, Tracy Anderson Takes Her Tiny Weights to the Masses Gwyneth Paltrow's fitness guru just debuted a line of DVDs, which means those not in NYC can get a custom workout. But can Anderson's program get... by Alexia Brue
Healthy Breakfast Recipes Quinoa: a Breakfast Upgrade on Your Morning Oatmeal [Recipe] Move over monotonous cup of oatmeal. We champion protein-loaded quinoa for breakfast. Here's why you should too, and how to make this fast-cooking whole grain. by Alexia Brue
Yoga Naked Yoga: We Tried It Yoga Undressed, the new video series, is inspiring an, um, stripped down practice. Read about one woman's nude yoga experiment and the surprising lessons it taught... by Alexia Brue
Healthy Cooking A Sunday Supper Club That Makes Lunches for the Week For the past 5 years, college friends Christine Johnson and Joanna Helferich have been getting together on Sunday evenings to cook their lunches for the entire... by Alexia Brue
Fitness Tips Equinox Acquires the Printing House and Squash Players Freak Out The West Village boutique gym has been bought by Equinox. Why that might not be so terrible. Unless you play squash. by Alexia Brue
Yoga Studios Near Me Pure Yoga Snaps up the Nalini Method The mega-studio finds its place at the barre, thanks to Rupa Mehta, the 31-year-old spark plug who created the Nalini Method. by Alexia Brue
Yoga Yoga for Night Owls, and the Overworked How many NYC yoga studios offer after-hours classes to overworked New Yorkers? Well+Good investigates late-night yoga in the city that never sleeps. by Alexia Brue
Healthy Gut Kefir Madness: Why We’re Obsessed With the Probiotic Drink Kefir recently gone from niche to mainstream. What's behind the sudden kefir madness? It's all about culture, bacteria culture that is. by Alexia Brue
Vitamins and Supplements 15 Minutes With Manu: Meet the NYC Institution Who Dispenses Vitamin Advice Meet Manu Dawson, the NYC institution who's spent the last 25 years dispensing vitamins and supplements advice from his perch at the Integral Yoga Natural Apothecary.... by Alexia Brue
Spinning Workouts Goldman Sachs’ Corporate Gym Less Jaw-Dropping Than Expected, Reports Social Workout Social Workout deserves a Pulitzer for this one. They infiltrated the corporate gym at the new Goldman Sachs headquarters by finding their own Deep Throat. Let’s... by Alexia Brue
Healthy Meal Ideas Freekeh, the Whole Grain With a Silly Name, Demands to Be Taken Seriously I like to think I know everything about food. Then I read on Twitter “Just had freekeh risotto @NorthernSpyFoods!” and I think, “What the freak is... by Alexia Brue
Places to Visit Equinox Abu Dhabi? Equinox is going global. When the fitness-center brand opens their first Middle Eastern location, we’re guessing they’ll have to tone down their sexy ad campaigns. CEO... by Alexia Brue
Fitness Tips Madonna Builds a Home Gym After Split With Tracy Anderson Madonna is adding the ultimate home-gym to her new Upper East Side mansion. by Alexia Brue
Holistic Treatment Clean to the Core: Nyc’s Colonic Queen Makes Her Luxury Debut To call Brigit Krome a colonic therapist is an understatement. Kind of like calling Madonna a singer. The German-born raw foodist is more of an evangelist... by Alexia Brue
Financial Tips Spa Tipping: a Recession-Friendly Guide to Gratuities How much to tip at the spa can be fraught with anxiety, which kinda defeats the purpose of going. So we took the guesswork out of... by Alexia Brue
Athleisure Wear Cameron Diaz’s Fountain of Youth: Exercise or Sex? Cameron Diaz credits “lots of sex” as her fountain of youth in a recent interview with Vogue. Her shopping habits, however, suggest that exercise is possibly... by Alexia Brue
Eating Vegan How to Avoid Juice Fast Delirium and Properly Prep for a Cleanse Salma Hayek has teamed up with Eric Helms of Juice Generation to create the Cooler Cleanse. Preparing for a cleanse, Helms explains, is often harder than... by Alexia Brue
Healthy Drinks What Happens When a Mixologist Gets Pregnant? She Masterminds Some Seriously Delicious Mocktails “When I got pregnant, I gave up alcohol. But I didn’t see why festive flavorful beverages and glamorous barware like martini glasses and champagne flutes had... by Alexia Brue
Sex Advice How (and Why) to Do Kegels “If you have a vagina and you’re old enough to vote, then you should be Kegeling every day.” That’s the mantra of Dr. Lauri Romanzi, the... by Alexia Brue
Yoga Studios Near Me Home Schooled: a Yoga Teacher’s West Village Apartment Is Her Classroom Yoga in NYC is currently a tale of two houses: Behemoths like Pure and YogaWorks, which lure the yoga-as-workout crowd to their mega-studios. While, on the... by Alexia Brue
Spinning Workouts Clip in for This Studio Cycling Comparison: Flywheel Vs. Soulcycle It's Mets vs. Yankees of the New York City spinning scene, as Flywheel and SoulCycle face off for riders. Here's how the boutique studios stack up.... by Alexia Brue
Wellness Retreats Wellness Weekend: Kripalu The Kripalu center, a new-age landmark in Lenox, Massachusetts, known for its beloved integrative-style yoga, its bland but healthy food (often eaten in silence), and its... by Alexia Brue
