王桢莹：纽约市夏天掀瑜伽潮

纽约市夏天掀瑜伽潮
报导 / 王桢莹

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（纽约21电）纽约市天气炎热，但不阻约一万名瑜伽爱好者于6月20日（星期三）在时代广场聚集，参加一项大型瑜伽课程。
主办单位透露，这项主题为 “智慧胜于疯狂” 的瑜伽课程，吸引力一万四千人报名参加。活动发起人道格拉斯 • 斯图尔特说，时代广场是适合人们身心平静的最佳地点。“时代广场是很多地方的聚集中心，所以我们决定在这里举办这项瑜伽课程”，道格拉斯解释说。
纽约市现摄氏为32度，但参与者看起来非常享受参与这场盛事。
“这项活动获得民众热情参与，我没想到时代广场能成为练习瑜伽的好地方”，来自波士顿的参与者安东尼说。
这已经是第十年，参加者聚集在时代广场参与这项瑜伽课程。


[原文]

The heat is on in New York City, but that didn't stop thousands of yoga enthusiasts from gathering in Times Square on
Wednesday (June 20) for a massive yoga class.
Organizers said 14,000 people registered for the yoga event, called "Mind Over Madness," which marks the the summer solstice and the longest day of the year.
Co-founder of Solstice in Times Square, Douglass Stewart, said Times Square is the ideal location to challenge individuals to still their thoughts.
"It's an intersection of all places, you know. It's like a major intersection of a... lots of people are here and broadway shows are here. Different kinds of people with different agendas, all meeting at this place and the busiest place. And so we decided and thought that this would be the perfect place to test that theory", said Douglass Stewart, Co-Founder of .
Temperatures hit over 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius), but event participants seemed to enjoy the experience anyway.
"It's pretty intense. I just thought about the energy of Times Square, and what it is like in New Year's Eve, and I thought it couldn't be a better place to practice yoga in the same spot," said Anthony David Stamp, yoga practitioner from Boston.
"It was just really exhilarating and exciting and really hot", said Joy Harvey from Brooklyn, who also participated last year's event.
This is the tenth year that yoga practitioners have laid down their mats in Times Square and settled into a renewed New York state of mind.