yoga district official opening

here's the information from steve abete at yoga district regarding their pre-grand opening party on november 16th

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Yoga District (www.yogadistrict.com), known for its not-for-profit mission to bring affordable yoga classes to diverse communities in eco-sensitive environments, announces its Bloomingdale studio's Grand Opening & Winter Peace Celebration, with activities throughout the day and night on Sunday, November 16th. Proceeds will benefit Delfa Hercules' family and a Winter Peace Initiative, a fund to organize citizen street patrols around the yoga studio, as well as volunteers working with nonprofit agencies fanning out on area street corners to help those in need of social services. The November 16th celebration marks the start of the new studio's full schedule of classes and grand opening on Monday, November 17th.

The November 16th schedule of events at the new studio, located at 1830 1st Street NW, includes:

• 9am-9:45am: Community all-levels meditation class ($5 donation suggested).
• 10am-11:15am: Yoga 1-2 class ($10 donation suggested).
• 11:15am-12:30pm: Open House, Meet the Teachers, Winter Peace Initiative Volunteer Sign Up, and an Art Exhibition by local artists (accepting submissions- email info@yogadistrict.com if interested).
• 12:30pm-1:30pm: Vegan & Vegetarian Chef Cooking Demo- Light Lunch included ($6 donation suggested).
• 2:00pm-3:15pm: Flow Yoga 1-2 ($10 donation suggested).
• 3:30pm-4:45pm: Kids Yoga (ages 5-9; $10 donation suggested).
• 6:00pm-?: Evening events including DJs, acoustic performances, live graffiti art, freestyle performances, open mic, drinks and munchies ($10 donation suggested).

For more information, please see www.yogadistrict.com or email info@yogadistrict.com.

Steve Abate
Studio Assistant Manager
YOGA DISTRICT
www.yogadistrict.com
202-265-YOGA

bad economy?!? what bad economy???

downtown bloomingdale is booming! yoga district has a sign up now (it's just a temp. looking one, hopefully a more permanent one is coming soon). but what's that next door?!? another commercial space is getting fixed up? are we really in the middle of an economic downturn, 'cause it doesn't feel that way 'round here!


i talked with the gentleman doing the painting here at 1832 1st street (which is getting a color scheme similar to yoga district—purple, green, and yellow), and he said he doesn't know what's going in here, but whatever it is will be opening in two weeks or so. i'll update you all when i find out more.

yoga district schedule

commenter aparker asked to have the schedule at yoga district posted. it's available online here (warning: that's a PDF at that link), and here's the comment that jasmine included as well:

Hi! There's a limited class schedule until the Grand Opening on November 17th (fundraiser party on November 16th for Delfa Hercules' family and a Winter Peace Initiative- see www.yogadistrict.com for info). Until Nov. 17th, classes are 6:45pm-8pm every night, except Saturdays, which has morning class 10:45am-12pm. Details at www.yogadistrict.com under the "the classes" link. All the teachers are very different, so be sure to try a few. Classes free 10/27-11/2! Peace and thanks for your support!

for those that didn't know, yoga district is located at 1830 1st street nw, in the heart of downtown bloomingdale!

everyone's favorite sport—new grocery store speculation!

so, here's a fun little rumor that i picked up on sunday.

trader joe's, quite possibly the best low-cost grocery chain i've ever seen, has only one location in the district, at 25th and L in foggy bottom. there were rumors back in the day that they might be looking at opening a U street location at 14th and V (where yes! organic market will be opening soon).

while checking out, i was chatting with the cashier and asked her when trader joe's was going to be expanding in order to take over the city. she told me pretty matter-of-factly that she's heard that tj's is looking at new locations in "upper georgetown" (which sounds to me like either burlieth or glover park) and at 14th and S streets nw.

now, the 14th and S location would be of more interest to bloomingdalians. i'm not sure exactly which building that would be located in, but whitman-walker just sold their buildings on the northwest corner here, so maybe those parcels could be configured to make space for a grocery store.

near that corner, there's also the central union mission building (which they're leaving for 65 mass. ave nw) and the old church of the rapture building (on the southwest corner of 14th and T). that one's being fought over by the owner of tryst/the diner/open city and a furniture store from minnesota, so i'm sure that's not a possibility here.

so, does a trader joe's on the 14th street corridor sound like a real possibility, or was i just hearing unsubstantiated rumors?

wee kan speel

guess this is how you spell "avenue" in baltimore.

(picture taken in hampden on 36th street)

creative bumper sticker

saw this on the way home from the bloomingdale farmer's market this weekend. pretty clever mixing obama with the outer banks.

geography lesson on an onion!

this is a picture of an onion that i picked up last weekend at safeway (i'm calling it the "seven safeway" [in ward 7 at minnesota and benning] since i haven't seen it nicknamed elsewhere) after the coalition for smarter growth's downtown ward 7 walking tour.

why write about an onion? well, i thought this was a good spot for a quick geography/history lesson. note the name of this onion brand—mayan sweets. then note where it's from (you can click on the picture to view a larger image).

if you didn't know already, the mayan empire was in present-day guatemala, belize, and mexico. the incan empire was in peru (where this onion is from). someone needs to rename their brand...

shots from this weekend's BFM

this weekend's bloomingdale farmer's market included a couple of new vendors: keswick creamery was selling cheese and pudding, and chez hareg was selling cookies and cakes at their tent. in addition, culinaerie was giving cooking demonstrations (and letting us sample some mean butternut squash soup!) i hope the new vendors come back; the cheese was flying off the shelves, so to speak, and hareg seemed to have brisk sales of her baked goods. hopefully our little farmer's market is growing up!

hareg is getting more cookies out and ready to sell. i bought some of the vegan sugar cookies (very, very good stuff!)

the cameras film the cooking demonstration from culinaerie.

this is where i always get my peppers, beans, and squash!

this little guy was at least getting most of his drink down the hatch!

yoga district now open—pictures from open house

yoga district's new bloomingdale studio (in the heart of downtown bloomingdale) held their open house yesterday from 10 to 2. people heading to and from the bloomingdale farmer's market were stopping in to pick up information (class schedules were available) and talk to the owners. they were busy when i stopped by, so i didn't get a chance to talk, but i did take a few pictures.

finally, "the purple building" has a use other than causing all of us to speculate what kind of mardi gras themed business would do well here.

for now, the only furnishing in the studio is this shelf in the front with a few yoga items for sale, but i overheard that more cubbies would be built in further back soon.

here's a few of the interior. that's sanded and polished plywood on the floor (plain and simple) with the original pressed tin ceiling, some HVAC ductwork and a few hanging lamps. a pretty simple place, but it's wonderful to see life on 1st street!

gotta keep taking note of this—george will #6

yeah, it has nothing to do with bloomingdale, but what the heck—look at the last word on the page here. the man just can't stop!