Halfway through a plank pose, as your arms are jiggling and you’ve lost all willpower to keep your stomach sucked in, there’s no better motivation to stick it out just a little longer than knowing there will be not one, not two, but six glasses of wine waiting for you afterward.
That’s the payoff at the end of Wine Yoga Party, a New York-based class that combines an hour of yoga with an hourlong wine tasting. Admittedly, at first I was bummed that I wouldn’t get to sip vino while I vinyasa — the type of yoga the class specializes in, where one pose flows into the next, making the hour fly by. But then I realized how quickly getting your drink on while attempting every warrior pose and chaturanga could be. Yoga gets decidedly less enjoyable when it ends with a trip to the emergency room, after all. READ MORE…