Learning to fashion your form into a pretzel can be handy in a number of ways, such as in training yourself to transcend physical discomfort and in getting free salt. Prep your body with today's Groupon: for $25, you get three classes (a $60 value) at NY Loves Yoga on the Upper West Side. The former home of Practice Yoga, this business is now operating as NY Loves Yoga under new ownership.

NY Loves Yoga is a friendly, neighborhood studio that caters to pliable physiques and buckram bodies alike with a chi-bending spectrum of styles and levels tailored to individual ability. Its experienced and passionate instructors guide students to a nimble nirvana, a state achieved by mollifying the mind and sculpting the body. In addition to drop-in classes, NY Loves Yoga provides workshops designed to further elasticize experts or introduce beginners to basic poses and yogic principles. Outside the studio, showcase flexibility and Zen-like focus by elbowing free plays from the jukebox while standing on one leg in an advanced warrior pose.