To honor 9/11 this year, I promised to do a small, but good deed: I've pledged to sort cans at a local food bank.

Like everything else in the Big Easy, yoga lost its footing. Many studios are still closed and others are only slowly trickling back, if at all. Seán Johnson, the owner of Wild Lotus Yoga (voted best yoga in New Orleans three years in a row by NOLA's alt weekly), fled New Orleans with only a few possessions--his beloved harmonium (an instrument for Hindu chanting) among them.