The Gates -- Central Park, New York
FEBRUARY 12 - 28, 2005

View NICE Magazine's full photo gallery on The Gates. The gallery will keep growing until the end of the exhibit, so keep checking in.

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Bali: Nicely Balanced

BY ADAM SKOLNICK
FEBRUARY 2005
(as published in Yoga International, March/April 2005)

The journey was inspired by a life flood—a financial, emotional, and circumstantial torrent that destroyed everything stable in my world. My engagement was broken, the house I was renting sold and I had to move. Work dried up. I was irritable, reclusive, sad. Even my yoga practice, for seven years a daily antidote for existential malaise, had no effect. And it was my fault. I was the one who got the shakes anytime someone asked, “When are you two going to tie the knot?” I postponed the date then unconsciously pushed my fiance further and further away until she left, and I failed to save even a penny for the move I’d seen coming for months. But at the time it didn’t feel like my fault. In fact, it didn’t feel at all. There were moments when all this rubble seemed to belong to someone else. I was completely checked out.

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My Safe, Warm Place

BY DARRELL R. YUEN
JANUARY 2005

In addition to its sheer physical beauty, Hawai’i also has going for it its wonderful people who are notorious for their generosity and hospitality. This is why my favorite spot on Earth is a place where these two features blend into an irresistible mix of serenity and companionship.

My friend Eliza grew up in a town on O’ahu called Manoa, where the state’s main university campus is located. Her family’s house is perched atop a little hill nearer to the mouth of Manoa Valley. The valley is known for its daily drizzles as it serves as a catch basin for many of the tradewind generated rain clouds that breath over the razor sharp spin of the Ko’olau Mountain range to the west. At the mouth of the valley, where Eliza’s house stands, the light tropical clouds tend to disperse, opening the skies up to the famously lush Hawai’ian sun.

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