万花筒 2011-06-25&06-27 纽约时代广场千人瑜伽

 Times Square gets even crazier in the summer, so to have the…the courage and the vision to say: "Let's…Let’s create a moment to just chill¹.” People oftentimes think that yoga is more something that

 

you find in Los Angeles or San Francisco, and what is amazing is there such a thriving yoga community here, as is purely² shown by the fact that already today we've had over 2000 people show up to practice yoga in the tourist attraction center of the universe-Times Square. 

 

"Please lift your right leg up interlocked ten fingers, thumbs included in the grip, grab³ your leg two inches below the knee on the shin, which is the fun part of your leg."

 

"We organize the New Year's Eve celebration, which is during the winter sources. This is a different kind of event, not crazy and loud, but calm and grounding."

 

some doing that types, unless you're as a bow and then you better act now and play hard.

 

"We were celebrating the sun, they were celebrating the first day of Summer and it’s still that exciting feeling, maybe not like the New Year's Eve, but absolutely awesome⁴."

 

"I've practiced yoga in many, many places, but so far this is the most amazing feeling you could ever imagine and have. To be in the busiest of all cities in the world, it's breathtaking."

 

"There is… People going by, these tour buses going by, people taking pictures of us, people yelling⁵."

 

"It is easy to be calm in the middle of beautiful natural environment, it is much harder in the busy urban lives to stay, saying, the same grounded and naturalize ourselves. So if they can do it here as we say, they can do it anywhere."

 

"Anybody can find peace at the top of a mountain, but to find real peace in the middle of Times Square, the middle of all of that, that's when you really know that you are centered and can find peace"

1 chill   

vt.使变冷，使冷却，使沮丧；n.寒冷，风寒

参考例句：

• With the chill factor,it's nearly minus forty here.加上风寒指数，气温接近零下40度。
• The bad news cast a chill over the whole family.这坏消息使全家人感到沮丧。

2 purely   

adv.纯粹地，完全地

参考例句：

• I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
• This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。

3 grab   

vt./n.攫取，抓取；vi.攫取，抓住(at)

参考例句：

• It is rude to grab a seat.抢占座位是不礼貌的。
• The thief made a grab at my bag but I pushed him away.贼想抢我的手提包，但被我推开了。

4 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.

5 yelling   

v.叫喊，号叫，叫着说( yell的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The coach stood on the sidelines yelling instructions to the players. 教练站在场外，大声指挥运动员。
• He let off steam by yelling at a clerk. 他对一个职员大喊大叫，借以发泄怒气。 来自《简明英汉词典》