Most of us are aware of the paradoxically hard work it takes to find time to achieve balance in life. Some days it's as simple as finding the willpower to choose the organic salad over the burger and fries, other days it's feeling the pressure to find time in your busy day to meditate. But in the midst of rushing around to juggle workload and family time with the myriad of other obligations, achieving balance isn't always easy. Enter the JivaDiva.

Gwyneth Paltrow is scheduled to teach what is probably the most expensive yoga lesson ever taught. In an auction for Prince Charles’ charity, a fan paid $50,000.00 (no, we didn’t add three extra zeros…) for a private session with Gwyneth. "Someone has spent a great deal of money on it so I’m going to have to really come up with an excellent plan. Unfortunately, I can’t do it in the nude or anything to make it really exceptional…" Paltrow said. She went on to assure the bidder that she would do everything within her power to not make the lesson any more awkward than she just did.

This Sunday’s New York Times featured “Yoga Assumes a Social Position,” an article about yoga studios that host parties before, after, and sometimes nowhere near, class time.

The story described a gathering at a Yoga Works with wine and chocolate, Om Yoga’s Vinyasa and Vino party, plus scads of less alcoholic events at places like old-school Jivamukti and brand-new Centerpoint.