However you spend your New Year's Eve, you'll get a detoxing rush from yogi and author Sadie Nardini's uber-vinyasa class with live drumming at Pure Yoga. You'll also do intention-setting and get tips for having a new year with powah (details below). That in mind, Sadie kindly agreed to answer my quick grilling about things like why she teaches, her favorite smoothie spot, and her coolest moment of NYC synchronicity.

If you could sum up the essence of what you would like your students to learn in one word, what would it be?
Fierceness

What's your favorite place to get an after-class juice or smoothie?
Juicy Lucy on Avenue A

What's your favorite asana? Least favorite? Why?
Afternoon Napasana and Seated Cat/Cow tie for most energy restoring, and Plow Pose literally gives me a headache.

What's your most recent yoga triumph?
Press-up handstand, finally

Why do you do yoga?
To be able to endure the intensity of life, and love.

How does yoga help New Yorkers specifically?
It detoxes what they retox through stress, breathing the fumes of a thousand cabs and teaches them how to be the eye of life's hectic storms.

What's the most important yoga tip you'd give non-yogis looking to relax in the chaos?
Be like tea, and change the water you're in: life comes at you, but you have the power to come back at life in any way you choose.

What's your favorite healthy restaurant in NYC?
Angelica Kitchen

Which traits do you most admire in your students?
Perseverance, receptivity and heart

What's the weirdest thing you've ever seen in a yoga class in NYC?
A 116 year-old swami smacking my asana with a stick. Or the pet snake.

What's your favorite NYC-synchronicity moment?
The day I chose a random route home, and without missing a step, walked across an intersection, and pulled an oncoming woman out of the path of being hit by a speeding taxi... by inches.

Music in class? Yea or nay? If so, any rules or preferences?
Yea. No speed metal, polka or square dance. Otherwise, anything goes.

Sadie will be teaching New Year's Day at Pure Yoga from 12-2 pm. Class is $25. Call for info or to reserve a spot: 212.360.1888.