May 2011
26 posts
“You don’t shrink into greatness. Expand!”
– ~ Elana Anderson, my ballet teacher
“Don’t believe everything you think.”
– Unattributed
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Full Moon!
check out the moon! you might be feeling overwhelmed and anxious. like the moon, we’re at our energetic peak. this is the time to remember the intention you set during the new moon and to reflect on your growth since—your fullness. examine the things you’ve collected—habits, patterns and behaviors—and determine what is no longer serving you. and as the moon shrinks, allow those things to be shed...
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Yoga Fun01
so, it’s DC Yoga Week. yaaaay! this is an excellent opportunity for folks to try yoga for the first time, as there’s little to no financial investment required since a bunch of studios are offering free and $5 classes all over the city. I realized, though, that apparently people have a lot of anxiety surrounding doing yoga for the first time. so I figured it would be a good idea to address the...
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DC YOGA WEEK!! →
alright, guys. the kick-off is tomorrow!! follow the link for a full schedule of events at participating studios, including free and super discounted classes!
Namaste!
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oh. and happy birthday, Stevie Wonder!
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Good Luck
in the spirit of “Friday the 13th,” I spent a good portion of the day lamenting about how unlucky I must be to have sustained this random persistent injury just before the kick-off of DC Yoga Week. something is awry in my rib cage to the degree that it hurts to laugh. how deep is that? so needless to say, I’m feeling a little down.
I started talking to a friend about the injury,...
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“Don’t compare yourself to others. Just be inspired by them.”
– ~ Clifton Brown, dancer, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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DC YOGA WEEK!!
ok friends here’s your chance! a week long celebration of yoga in the city with offerings of free and $5 classes all over the place! click the pic to visit the website of DC Community Yoga, where you can find details about all of the participating studios! my hope is to assemble a solid squadron and hit up all these spots all week. who’s with me?!
see you on the mat ;)
♥
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Honestly?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this idea of “Honesty” and what it means to be honest. and I think that for the most part, we all get the idea of speaking honestly, but there’s much more to it than that. Honesty begins with our thoughts and carries all the way to not only our words, but also our actions.
Honesty of thought is so crucial. it means being real with...
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To Mother with Love
the Mother is the archetype of personified Yin. by virtue of her receptive nature, she is able to be the vessel of Life. she gives of her Self fully for the sake of pure Creation. and she continues to give in order to nurture that which she creates to the full expression of its potential.
as artists, we all embody the spirit of the Mother when we conceive concepts that we ultimately bring to...
choose Love.
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It's a Wonder Full Life!
I was walking a dog the other day, and was having a particularly hard time keeping her attention. every five seconds, something caught her eye, or nose, and she was so amazed and excited by it. and I was thinking she has to have walked down this street a million times, peed on this same tree, eaten this same grass… but still, it was like she’d never been there before.
so I got to...
“Love all beings without attachment.”
– ~ Buddhism
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Dance Deal! →
great way to try Dance for the first time!
visit the Joy of Motion website for class information
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New Moon!
and if you go looking for it, you won’t see anything! the new moon happens when it shrinks all the way down to what appears to be nothing – the “dark side of the moon.”
somehow my nerdy mind wandered to math, as usual, and I thought back to Algebra II. remember the parabola? I know. just stay with me a minute. this is a parabola:
remember? and we learned about slopes of functions, the...
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“Regret is an act of violence against the Self.”
– ~ Amber Michal
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Yoga Deal! →
Groupon for one month unlimited pass to Stroga!
just breathe.
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