Instead of jaunting to your usual Saturday yoga class next weekend, you can grab your mat and hit the Here Comes the Sun yoga festival in Central Park.

Held at Rumsey Playfield from 11am to 4pm, there will be an array of overlapping classes to choose from—everything from Sarah Ivanhoe's "Detox Flow" classes to yoga for better sleep, to a meditation session with Alan Finger.

After you’re yoga’d out, you can munch on “tastings” supplied by the likes of Quaker Oats and um, the Almond Board of California (who knew?) and get mini-makeovers at L’Oreal’s “Goddess of Beauty and Light” area (seriously). And at 3 pm, you can rock out to a Joan Osborne mini-concert (she's pictured at right). I saw her in Prospect Park this summer, and man alive, she has a lovely voice. I really shouldn’t have held that one awful song against her (“And if God was one of ussss…”).

The incredibly random assortment of sponsors attests to yoga’s ubiquity in this city—and advertiser friendliness. There are the usual suspects like Josie’s restaurants, Satya Jewelry, and Yoga Works, but it’s also backed by The New York Post (?!), Lean Cuisine, and Sealy mattresses.

Yogis (and Pilatis—is that a word yet?) of all levels and preferences will be served—a beginner area is on hand as well as massage, facial care, and some vigorous sounding vinyasa classes.

It’s like the Oregon Country Fair, but with yoga, in Manhattan, and totally commercial! Am I bad for being skeptical? Well, even if it’s very L’Oreal’s Because-I’m-Worth-Itasana, it’ll probably be a lovely day in the park, Brooklynite Joan Osborne is bound to be amazing, and hey, how often do you get to do yoga with masses of New Yorkers? Sounds like the perfect girl-date, really. It’s $25 in advance, and $30 day-of.

For more info go here.

Oh and also, next weekend I’m planning to check out a cool event co-hosted by the Breathing Project and the “Bodies... the Exhibition.” You’ll get a yoga anatomy-oriented tour around the exhibit (it’s the one where they’ve plasticized the inside and outside of real bodies so you can see everything). I’ll post on that next week. It’s Saturday at 1 pm. More here.

Thanks and have a fab week—and let me know about anything coming up that you’re psyched about yoga-wise in da city. Namaste.