Non-Stop Hilaria

With Her Three Very Young Kids, New Mind-body Book, and High-maintenance Husband, Alec, Hilaria Baldwin May Be the Ultimate Expert on Balance.

- Faye Penn

Hilaria Baldwin is doing a downward-facing dog. New York’s most public yogi isn’t doing such things on rooftops anymore. Or on railroad tracks, bulldozers, or helipads. She’s on a mat next to me, inviting me to join her.

I’m attempting to get some zen from the author of The Living Clearly Method, which distills her wellness practices into a five-pronged program for a fitter, happier life.

I dread all yoga, but in particular the wrist-wrenching, shoulder-straining maneuver Baldwin moves through with the ease of a shrug. “Saying you’re too inflexible for yoga is like saying you’re too dirty to take a bath,”she tells me. “That’s my favorite quote.”

Her credentials are impeccable: Not only has she run the popular Yoga Vida studio for seven years, but she can also type on a computer with her knees behind her shoulders,as her 200,000-plus Instagram followers know well.

Baldwin sun-saluted her way into the limelight in 2014, when she was posting a yearlong series of daily yoga poses, many of them shot around her home turf of New York City, often with her baby daughter, Carmen, in tow.

That she was Alec Baldwin’s newish wife only added to the intrigue. How could a beaming exhibitionist and a notoriously press-averse cynic get along, let alone marry?

Two more years and two more children later—17-month old Rafael and Leonardo, born in September—she has transformed her Instagram feed into a cozy jumble of perfectly imperfect family moments, rife with smoochy babies, sleepy eyes, and stolen moments for leg lifts. Noteworthy too are the glimpses of an Alec Baldwin you don’t see elsewhere: joyful, unburdened, and seemingly in love with it all.