PHOTOGRAPHY BY OSTIN TORRE
Disco Visco Yoga by Gerry Visco
"We all need to open our bodies up, feel good, and PARTY! "
Apparently the wild “nightlife diva,” photographer, performer, writer, trouble maker, Gerry Visco is also a yoga instructor. You never know these days, these bitches can have so many different talents. “I started studying yoga back in the days when The Beatles met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and kept on when NO ONE was doing yoga.” She is certified “from the Iyengar Yoga Institute of Greater New York, which is a two year intensive program and I’ve literally been doing yoga for 45 years. Back in the days when only weird nerds and new age freaks did yoga, I was doing it” and of course Gerry saw another opportunity to have fun, she decided to create this yoga class: Visco Disco Yoga, which is also a way to support the alternative queer space The Spectrum.
As you can expect from the name of the class it’s a one-hour workout combined with dance, “disco music and good vibes….We’ve all taken those yoga classes where the teacher’s in a bad mood and everyone seems like they’re in pain, but my yoga is nothing like that.” The last time I took a yoga class my instructor had a big ego, and I had to stop taking his classes, so I can see exactly where Gerry is coming from, I was really annoyed about the fact that guy wanted us to worship him during my own time, my own practice, he wasn’t even hot…
Gerry has a big fun plan for you guys: “our first song is usually the Macarena and Michael Musto suggested we do the Lambada. I have a playlist chockfull of fabulous disco tunes and standards (YMCA!) mixed with some house music. We do the yoga under the Spectrum disco ball and of course, I am dressed in a crazy glittery disco outfit, usually gold and silver, but sometimes my Ninja Turtle costume. Think Richard Simmons but with yoga.” I’d say if you are up for a new yoga experience, check out her class, it sounds just wild. I leave you with her inspiring words: “I’m in my fifties and I have unlimited energy and I’ve had no plastic surgery. What’s my secret? DISCO YOGA.”
If you have any questions email Gerry at gerryvisco@gmail.com. Suggested donations, November 12, 2013. 9:30PM, The Spectrum, 59 Montrose Ave. Brooklyn, NY.
