Whether you’re looking to stick to a budget, avoid consumer culture, or just simply reignite your creative spark this holiday season, I hope these ideas will inspire your process.
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To my dearest Creative Fridays tribe, As you might have heard, “Dance-A-Day, in the month of May” is in full swing this month. It’s rocking my world. (You can still join us if you haven’t yet!). I’ll be taking a little pause from our regular Friday posts here to focus my energy on completing my book and rocking out the daily dance prompts. (You might hear from me on random occasions, though!). Here are some ways to stay connected ...
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On this Creative Friday, or shall we call it Cinco de Danza, I’m going to let dance speak for me. Because I’m tired. Because it’s been a rough week. Because I’m realizing how I can overcomplicate or overexplain things when actually all that’s needed is a dance. Here’s my dance video and story. I hope you dance, too, ...
Read morethe kind of dance that’s needed with urgency.
Back in the spring of 2014, I walked to the park to find a place to dance. It was the kind of dance that was needed with urgency. It was the kind of urgency that was felt at the start of spring, when new life is ready to bust out from all angles. It was the kind of spring that was much needed after a long winter. And it called for the body to MOVE, to shake off the winter, to welcome in spring, to find release in the midst of a transition ...
Read moreif it feels forced, it doesn’t fit.
The photo you see here of me and Mochi, the 6-month-old puppy, is part of the reason why I didn’t write to you last Friday. Puppy-sitting for a week turns out to be quite the job (along with the million other personal things that seemed to come up in the same week… and I have a sense I’m not alone in that sentiment!). But beyond the puppy - What I had planned to write - the start of a 5-part series on the roadblocks to dancing ...
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pssst… Today and for the rest of this month, I’ll be releasing excerpts from my upcoming book, Dance With This Book, to be officially released on May 12th, 2017. This chapter in particular was written and added last, but I feel in many ways is the most important part of the entire book. (If it resonates, be sure to check out my upcoming Immersion Workshop on June 24th in NYC.) I hope you enjoy it and I can’t wait to share ...
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