Tell us about yourself, Margi.

I’ve been teaching yoga full-time since 2001, since graduating with a Masters Degree in dance and choreography from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. My yoga classes are influenced by breath, anatomy, alignment, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and Buddhist ideas about compassion and mindfulness.

What is a favorite movie, book, song or artist/artwork?

The Visitors- by Agnar Kjartansson (At MOMA until 9/28)

What do you love the most about practicing yoga?

Leaving the swirls of the mind, and dropping into the wisdom of the body.

What is your favorite yoga pose?

Savasana, so exotic to do nothing.

What is your least favorite yoga pose?

Not to sound like a yoga teacher, but they all hold their own wisdom for me. Oh, that one called Mayurasana makes me feel like my neck may break.

What is your favorite place to visit OR a place you'd like to go someday?

My favorite place is Naoshima in Japan, and I can't wait to go to Vietnam. I had a trip all planed down to the food tour in side cars when COVID hit.

What is your favorite quote, or your favorite piece of advice?

My amazing mom loved this one and so do I: “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke