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Creativity, Flow, and Movement plus Twin Hoopoing!

Michele — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:36:01 GMT

Creativity, Flow and Movement plus Twin Hooping! with Michele Sunday 22 3-7pm 102 Brewers Ln, Carrboro NC $40 In this workshop i will ask you to break out of yourself and free up your movement practice. We will play games to empower and express emotions in our dance as well as play with a variety of physical experiences such as: weight, gravity, softness, hardness, fluidity and abrupt changes, tension, and speed variation. We will play with body mechanics and talk about some movement theories. You will learn about creating a practice to keep and increase your range of motion. During this journey we will explore many different methods of moving with the hoop: jumps, isolations, body rolls, tosses, transitional spaces, move creation and how moves can 'fit' together, creating flow. And of course, if you can do it with one, why not two? About me Dancing was my first aspiration and joy in life. Through hooping I discovered that dance truly is my home. I have been dancing with hoops since 2002 and I am also a hatha yoga instructor as well as a formally trained visual artist. My thrills in life are for the odd, whimsical, magical and fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7kcXLmrzs0

twin hooping in DC nov 8th

Michele — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:08:48 GMT

Twin hooping workshop in DC with Michele and Surprise nov 8th http://twinhoopingdc-efbnen.eventbrite.com/ twins de-mystified! double your pleasure double the fun!!

thank you friends!

Michele — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:17:35 GMT

I gave my first paid private lesson today thanks to a recommendation from Annie! yay!! it went really well and i'm so pleased and excited to be such a personal witness to transformation. Also it looks like I will get to teach at hoop camp and hoop convergence this year. I super thrilled. And I'm starting a class March 5th!!! I feel like i'm finally doing something right but i know it would be for naught with out the support of my friends, so i want to say thank you to Mer, Katie, Jewels, Ann, and Bax for all of your encouragement. I love you guys!

The hoop path

Michele — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:56:01 GMT

fucking rocks! everytime i study with bax my hooping takes off a little more and even better my love for hooping gets a little deeper. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

slavery a thing of the past?

Michele — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:16:44 GMT

I would like to remind everyone this holiday season the importance of buying fair trade chocolate. Most chocolate consumed in America is produced by child labor in extreme conditions with and estimated 10% of the children enslaved. http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/cocoa/background.html do more buy writing a letter to major chocolate producers hershey's and nestle!

the right to live? no new news really

Michele — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:30:26 GMT

I believe it is commonly recognized by various institutions that humans (us, if you're reading this) need 3 things to live. Food. Water. Shelter. The first thing the bill of rights says is that we have the right to life. Once upon a time, we had these things. Food comes out of the groung just about everywhere. Water, the same. Shelter with a very little imagination applied is also widely available. So what's the problem? How can anyone be poor, how can anyone starve to death. Why do we have to ask permission to be alive? Please bank, can I have some food? Can I have some water? Can I have a house? It's not even the banks land! My Grandfather told me that electricity, water, telephone, all used to be owned by the government and it was very affordable becuase they were opperated not for a profit but as a public service. Water's the last one left for us but other humans elsewhere aren't so lucky. Water is the in targets for privitazation. I don't want to pay to be alive. We have right to life. How can we exersise that? Any suggestions? One organizations is trying to get the right to water added to the UN bill of rights. I doubt that will help but i signed it. http://article31.org/ you can too if you like. But really i want to know what do you think we can do to get our first inalienable right back.

how dumb are we?

Michele — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:36:28 GMT

Cheat me once, cheat me can't be cheated again? The worst thing is that this only happened in the 80's, most voters should remember this. (not me i'm waaaaay to young) i recently remebered asking my Dad, when i was just a wee lass, what he thought about Al Gore and George Bush. He said, George Bush is a theif something something, banking, something something. So in light of recent events i thought i'd look it up. Why isn't it all over the news that John Mcain was involved in that crap?! Of course he pushed for the stupid bailout. excerpts from wikipedia of course http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five Deregulation Although the deregulation of S&Ls gave them many of the capabilities of banks, it did not bring them under the same regulations as banks, and the new legislation allowed them to enter new lending businesses with very little oversight. Imprudent real estate lending In an effort to take advantage of the real estate boom (outstanding US mortgage loans: 1976 $700 billion; 1980 $1.2 trillion)[citation needed] and high interest rates of the late 1970s and early 1980s, many S&Ls lent far more money than was prudent, and to risky ventures which many S&Ls were not qualified to assess. L. William Seidman, former chairman of both the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Resolution Trust Corporation, stated, "The banking problems of the '80s and '90s came primarily, but not exclusively, from unsound real estate lending."[3] Lincoln Savings and Loan The Lincoln Savings led to the Keating Five political scandal, in which five U.S. senators were implicated in an influence-peddling scheme. It was named for Charles Keating, who headed Lincoln Savings and made $300,000 as political contributions to them in the 1980s. Three of those senators – Alan Cranston (D-CA), Don Riegle (D-MI), and Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ) – found their political careers cut short as a result. Two others – John Glenn (D-OH) and John McCain (R-AZ) – were rebuked by the Senate Ethics Committee for exercising "poor judgment" for intervening with the federal regulators on behalf of Keating.[10] [edit] Silverado Savings and Loan Silverado Savings and Loan collapsed in 1988, costing taxpayers $1.3 billion. Neil Bush, son of then Vice President of the United States George H. W. Bush, was Director of Silverado at the time. Neil Bush was accused of giving himself a loan from Silverado, but he denied all wrongdoing.[2] The US Office of Thrift Supervision investigated Silverado's failure and determined that Neil Bush had engaged in numerous "breaches of his fiduciary duties involving multiple conflicts of interest." Although Bush was not indicted on criminal charges, a civil action was brought against him and the other Silverado directors by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; it was eventually settled out of court, with Bush paying $50,000 as part of the settlement, the Washington Post reported.[11] As a director of a failing thrift, Bush voted to approve $100 million in what were ultimately bad loans to two of his business partners. And in voting for the loans, he failed to inform fellow board members at Silverado Savings & Loan that the loan applicants were his business partners.[citation needed] Neil Bush paid a $50,000 fine and was banned from banking activities for his role in taking down Silverado, which cost taxpayers $1.3 billion. A Resolution Trust Corporation Suit against Bush and other officers of Silverado was settled in 1991 for $26.5 million.

super fun nasty get down ass shaking funky good time

Michele — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:50:41 GMT

i want to go but i might not just cuz i'm pretty broke but i want all my friends to have a good time so if you are looking for something to do and like dancing and or dub step this is party for you. the bug and warrior queen from england will be playing at love in ny for 10 bucks this friday. sub swara is throwing this adventure in butt jiggling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aW7NFSGklM&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BoqdfDUJxI&feature=related

transformus?

Michele — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:35:27 GMT

does any one have an extra ticket to transformus??

compassion and imagiantion, i know you are still inside me somewhere!

Michele — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:20:02 GMT

Below is a story I am reposting from Natalie's blog. It really resonates with me an my feelings about myself and my interations with others and i wanted to share it with my friends that may not know Natalie. The reason why this is important to me at this time in part due to my job. I spend the majority of my day 5 days a week with people who say things like "I hate fat people" and think that is ok. Combating this energy in combination with other, by themselves, trival unpleasentries is causing me to be a little more than cynical. That is something i need to take control of. One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, 'My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all. One is Evil. - It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. - It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.' The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: 'Which wolf wins?' The old Cherokee simply replied, 'The one you feed.' The idea, which i think is extremely American, that we have the power to craft our dreams into physical reality is at the root of my personal philosophy. (The photo is of a woman who has worked (out) to manifest fer dream. Her moto is Dedicated, Determined, Disiplined. She is a 71 year old personal trainer right here in good ol' Baltimore) That is something that every aspect of my life relates back too. I am a person who people thought would never graduated high school, who may not be capable of living independantly. I have surived being an orphan, a barrage of foster care homes, running the streets as a child without being enrolled in school amongst other Oprah Book Club type senarios. If the concepts of fate and destiny played a part in my life i would certainly be living the adult counterpart to my childhood expirences. I survived by using the tools i had (a brilliant and amazingly supportive extended family most importantly) to craft the life I wanted to have instead of believing I was relegated to live in the expiriences of whatever happens to me. This is why art and dance are so attractive to me, they exisit in the imagination until they are manifested by you, creating evidance that proves we are only what we want to be and the power to change is ours. That sounds really good, except it is so hard! I thought once i got through college, I had won. Success! I made it. However I had only begun learning what is really possible. Now that I have been out of school as long as I was there, I'm left asking myself where are those manifested visions, where is that hope and determination? I am doing what everyone else does. I take care of myself, I have a good time, but that is not what i wanted. I want to create something lasting that lets people know that they CAN. But to do that I have to be open to myself and others continously, i have to work tirelessly and know that there is no finish line. What I didn't know is that the Good Wolf requires A LOT more food then the Bad Wolf and the Bad Wolf is always waiting paitently.

gosh i really don't know which ones cuter...

Michele — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:21:52 GMT

be careful this site can make you cry. *sigh* the funny thing is that is not the only picture of a guy on a bike with his toy dog on the back with a matching helmet. if you feel sad just go here. its so great. www.cuteoverload.com I especially love the cats in racks section. don't forget to look on the right hand side under catagories. more cute than anyone person can really handle. love, michele

gut spilling

Michele — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:46:59 GMT

ok here goes nothing. i need some supportive feedback to combat a few days of bad thoughts i've been having. i have a problem talking to people when i'm upset so maybe this will help. i'm having some re-entery difficulties after my super awsome time in carrboro combined with a feeling overall lately that my life is in a crappy messy little rut. i seem to be doing lots of things i never wanted to do, working in an office doing stupid meaningless crap, and not persuing my goals as an artist. i feel terrible and paralyzed by fear if i'm alone at all and i can't follow through with much. i have lots of talents but can't seem to yeild fruit from them. i'm afraid this winter is going to be rough on me.

maybe someone can help me?

Michele — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:51:41 GMT

how can someone, particularly me, stay warm and dry in the winter without looking like i'm wearing my sleeping bag or i'm a flasher? why are their only pea coats, puffy coats and trench coats??? does anyone know someone that makes coats ,hopefully waterproof, and sells them online? help!

Sometimes I forget what the rest of the world is like

Michele — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:29:28 GMT

As I was reading this article an ad appeared next the article and it had a picture of Don Imus and said Don Imus comeback? Vote now! Why must other Americans continue to subjugate black people? Haven't we been through enough? Even the article ment to provide objective facts sheding light on the situation doesn't give all the details about what all the black students endured before getting in the fight with the white student. Students invited Mychal Bell to a party, when he arrived he was beaten by a group of white students and threatened with a shot gun. Then the following day Mychal Bell and 5 other black students beat up a white student involved in the attack at school. Still after months of media attention none of the white students have been brought up of any charges. WASHINGTON - Civil rights activist Al Sharpton says Congress should expand hate crime laws to deal more forcefully with noose-hanging incidents like the one in the Jena Six case in order to squelch what he called a sharp rise in racism. Sharpton, a New York-based reverend, was to testify Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee about the case of six black teenagers in the small Louisiana town of Jena charged with the beating of a white student. The incident happened after nooses were hung from a tree on a high school campus there — a symbol of the violence of the segregation era. Since the Jena case began attracting national attention, there have been a number of other nooses found in high-profile incidents around the country — in a black Coast Guard cadet's bag, on a Maryland college campus, and, last week, on the office door of a black professor at Columbia University in New York. "Nooses, the 'n' word, a Klansman's hood, and the burning cross are the clearest symbols of hate for black America," Sharpton said in remarks prepared for delivery to the committee. Last week, one of the Jena Six, Mychal Bell, was sentenced to 18 months in jail after a judge determined he violated the terms of his probation for a previous conviction. Racial tensions began rising in Jena in August 2006 after a black student sat under a tree known as a gathering spot for white students. Three white students later hung nooses from the tree. They were suspended but not prosecuted. More than 20,000 demonstrators gathered recently in Jena to protest what they perceive as differences in how black and white suspects are treated.

make the most out of your organic food choices

Michele — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:08:11 GMT

To reduce our family's pesticide exposure we utilize the Environmental Working Group's "Dirty Dozen" list of the top 12 pesticide-containing fruits and vegetables (peaches, apples, bell peppers, celery, nectarines, strawberries, cherries, lettuce, imported grapes, pears, spinach, potatoes; more at www.foodnews.org). The average eater can reduce their pesticide exposure by 90 percent by purchasing organically grown versions of these items or simply avoiding them altogether.