Mortals have often attempted to mimic the pretzel's shape while trying to eat hotdogs with their toes, but they usually crumble into piles of ketchupy goo. Flexibilify your fiber with today's Groupon: for $18, you get 10 consecutive days of yoga or Pilates classes (a $40 value) at The Yoga Room's Astoria or Long Island City studio.

Today's Groupon is good for 10 days of unlimited, regularly scheduled yoga and/or Pilates mat classes. Multiple levels and styles of classes, including Bikram style hot yoga, Vinyasa flow, Anusara, and hot-yoga fusion, are available to help any seasoned stretcher or malleable beginner stretch and bend until he or she is picking up sidewalk quarters with ease. Pilates mat classes, which focus on core conditioning and help improve coordination, flexibility, and balance, are also offered on a flexible schedule based on drop-in availability (you must bring your own mat for yoga and Pilates mat classes, or you can rent them at The Yoga Room for $2 per class).

The Yoga Room's pliable yoga instructors and powerful Pilates teachers have the dedication and expertise to mold anyone into a healthier, calmer concrete-jungle walker. Step barefoot into either of the spacious, relaxing studios during any of the dozens of weekly classes, and discover the way many people stay toned and limber while temporarily storing worldly worries in a drawer with knick-knacks, spare change, and shrunken heads.

This Groupon is only good for new students or students who haven't attended a class at The Yoga Room in the last 12 months. Prenatal, mommy and me, and reformer classes are excluded.

Reviews

Five Yelpers give The Yoga Room's Long Island City branch a four-star average:

• The instructors are well-suited to teaching and they are all so beautiful. The staff and other members make this a place where I can leave my self judgments at the door. – Woody D.
• Great studios, caring teachers, awesome community environment that you do NOT get in Manhattan! I sometimes stick around and chat for hours! – karen d.