joined on 08/23/05
last updated 02/13/08
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about me
May the sun bring you new energy by day,
May the moon softly restore you by night,
May the rain wash away your worries.
May the breeze blow new strength into your being,
May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life.
(Apache Blessing)
I traipse around the world to learn from the best, and drag them back across the pond for events. I co-edited the first International Tribal Magazine. I make and sell Tribal Performance costumes internationally through my BellyNut Tribal bazaar. I love to dance, and perform, and have my own troupe - Bodhaia Tribal. I have a freaky (or completely sane, depending on whether you agree with me) spiritual-in-a-non-religious-sense-of-the-word outlook on what life is all about in this universe, and try *really* hard not to shoe-horn this into every conversation I have with people!
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~ Dr. Seuss
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
-- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
~~Anais Nin
"People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering."
-St. Augustine
"When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly."
~ Edward Teller
"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." ~ Gandhi
"I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
-Edward Hale
Yay
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Tomorrow is Tribal Immersion. We're doing a day of formations, floorwork, sword, skirt, palm flame, and free dancing. I'm so excited! :) This is what it's all about. :)
Lovely things
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This month is full of lots of lovely new things:
1) A New troupe member! The lovely Denise - who many of you know for her amazing tribal outfits, period costuming, and make-up that is out of this world - has now joined Bodhaia!
2) A new dru...
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New BellyNut Tribal Range
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Spirits of Nature
At last! Despite fielding divorce solicitors and now also conveyancing solicitors, I have managed to find time to begin creating some of the ideas I've been so excited about.
Unfortunately I can't get to my website right...
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Everything that is wrong with western medicine!
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www.smh.com.au/news/natio...827171.html
Patenting a gene! WTF?
Apparently we no longer own our bodies, or the DNA that we use to create our own children. In how many ways is...
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All Change
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I've just posted to the tribe about some new costume designs. I'm so excited about them! Also, I want to shout about where they've come from:
Within the language of ATS, I finally feel like my teaching and dance now has its very own refined un...
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Tomorrow is Tribal Immersion. We're doing a day of formations, floorwork, sword, skirt, palm flame, and free dancing. I'm so excited! :) This is what it's all about. :)
Sat, May 23, 2009 - 6:47 AM
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This month is full of lots of lovely new things:
1) A New troupe member! The lovely Denise - who many of you know for her amazing tribal outfits, period costuming, and make-up that is out of this world - has now joined Bodhaia!
2) A new drumming group
3) A new fusion class.
4) A new house.
5) A new Blackberry Storm.
6) New orders.
7) A new (rather scary) .. erm, path, which is taking up every ounce of my non-dance-related time and energy, but that I'm loving so much.
8) New order...
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Mon, January 26, 2009 - 4:53 AM
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Spirits of Nature
At last! Despite fielding divorce solicitors and now also conveyancing solicitors, I have managed to find time to begin creating some of the ideas I've been so excited about.
Unfortunately I can't get to my website right now and can't see me doing so any time soon, so the first few designs are up on the bellynut tribe and the bellynut facebook group.
tribes.tribe.net/bellynuttribalwww.facebook.com/group.php
Oh, but I'm really ...
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Sun, January 4, 2009 - 4:42 PM
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www.smh.com.au/news/natio...827171.html
Patenting a gene! WTF?
Apparently we no longer own our bodies, or the DNA that we use to create our own children. In how many ways is this wrong? And how is not all over the news every single day? I could go on about how western medicine continues in the wrong direction with its insistance that the body is an empty machine, disconnected from anything else. But you all know that...
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Tue, December 16, 2008 - 5:57 AM
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I've just posted to the tribe about some new costume designs. I'm so excited about them! Also, I want to shout about where they've come from:
Within the language of ATS, I finally feel like my teaching and dance now has its very own refined underlying energy and ethos, after a long time of teaching using from somebody else's recipe. I haven't changed that recipe, but there's an invisible link that the ATS dancer connection has made with my own beliefs, and they're now feeding each other ...
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Fri, November 28, 2008 - 5:22 AM
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December 13, 2007
Nicky is the 'Johnny Depp' of Tribal Teachers.
She's sexy, artistic and meticulous on technique! ..... and she'd look good dressed as a pirate.
Arrrghhh M'e Hearties!.... (or what ever sound pirates make)
Love Ya Babe!
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