Dani Katz

Arguably the most esoteric of the yoga lineages to make its way to the West, Kundalini yoga is beginning to infiltrate the mainstream. Still, just because A-list celebrities are dipping their toes into the deep, rich waters of this ancient yogic form doesn't make it more accessible. Enter Taylor Jap......

Hunt Pilates in Sherman Oaks is home to a British import named Antony Ferguson who loves to make you hurt. A former professional rugby player with a background in classical ballet (yes, really), Ferguson puts his students through their slow, measured, excruciating paces with a refined flair for alignment tips......

While I could gush for eons about Melissa Schade's every dance class at the Sweat Spot in Silver Lake, let us focus our attention on her warm-up, which doubles as a vision quest. Schade leads her Thursday and Saturday morning classes through an intelligent unfolding of isolations, extensions, crunches, planks......

Every Thursday morning, about 20 folks convene in a house south of Sunset in Silver Lake for OM Circle, a group Orgasmic Meditation gathering that's focused on a 15-minute clitoris-stroking practice. Despite the bevy of spread-eagle women whose clits are stimulated by certified OM trainers, there is nothing lewd about......

Billing itself as "a nonprofit research collective," this unassuming Eagle Rock dispensary is as classy as they come. Their security team wears gabardine suits, for crissakes. Strictly by appointment only for first-timers, Cornerstone Collective feels way more like a traditional medical office setting than it does a swinging weed club......

Plastic bottled water is out, given that most bottles never decompose and have this nasty habit of finding their way to our oceans, only to float to some Arctic nether region where it's just a matter of time before a litter of baby penguins suffocates, having stuck their heads inside......