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June 2017
Remembering the dead.
in imagePride in the Nation's Capital
#Reposting @stuiestyle_yoga with @instarepost_app -- Thank you for Mixtape @djmattbailer and @sheavanhorn. You guy…
Love is love-- and oh how I love y'all! #Reposting @tugga_life with @instarepost_app -- Love is love...Thanks for…
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#Reposting @stuiestyle_yoga with @instarepost_app -- Thank you for Mixtape @djmattbailer and @sheavanhorn. You guys are the best! ❤️💛💚💙💜 #capitalpride #washingtondc #mixtape #930club #rainbow
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Love is love-- and oh how I love y'all!
#Reposting @tugga_life with @instarepost_app -- Love is love...Thanks for making my first Pride memorable @carenmink. Love you always!
#Reposting @tugga_life with @instarepost_app -- Love is love...Thanks for making my first Pride memorable @carenmink. Love you always!
I didn't take any pictures cause I was too busy living! @craze202 helped remind me of how great this city is (as though I need reminding)-- Kiki on the bus, helped me find my pride beverage containers, and cane and held it down. #Reposting @craze202 with @instarepost_app -- Pride parade!!
#happypride #dcpride #ilovedc
#happypride #dcpride #ilovedc
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The accuracy. #pride
The accuracy. #pride
"you look ready for the day!" I said. "I am," she replied. "one more plaque to go, for the front. Its of me and my…
About last night. #pride
The accuracy. #pride
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COFFEE • COCKTAILS • PROVISIONS
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COFFEE • COCKTAILS • PROVISIONS
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"you look ready for the day!" I said. "I am," she replied. "one more plaque to go, for the front. Its of me and my trans son. Same struggle, different struggle. Same same." #pride
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We resist, we refuse to
let hatred in,
We rise up, we won't
back down
We're in this 'til the
end!
Pray for your enemies!
Welcome the stranger!
Show love to your
neighbor!
We're in this til
the end.
We resist, we refuse to
let hatred in,
We rise up, we won't
back down
We're in this 'til the
end!
Pray for your enemies!
Welcome the stranger!
Show love to your
neighbor!
We're in this til
the end.
Is there such a thing as an outfit too slutty for a Pride warehouse party? ð¤
Pride = Protest! End Hetero Privilege! #pride
ðPride!!!ðPride!!!ðPride!!!ð
I've been a member of this gym for almost 15 years.
Discovering my love of fitness and sport helped empower me in my youth, and keeps me strong in ways far beyond muscle mass as an adult.
Strong people are more useful; and being smart and pretty has no bearing on ones capacity for physicality. Basically, you can be smart, pretty, and strong -- so why not?
Perhaps that message is taboo....?
Discovering my love of fitness and sport helped empower me in my youth, and keeps me strong in ways far beyond muscle mass as an adult.
Strong people are more useful; and being smart and pretty has no bearing on ones capacity for physicality. Basically, you can be smart, pretty, and strong -- so why not?
Perhaps that message is taboo....?
Sitzler is my home girl. We yammer for hours: big picture, personal/intimate, Yoga, and life. I haven't listened yet, but sure as heck will, she always has something insightful to say.
Charlie's kinda wondering why I skipped happy hour. After a day of teaching, my singing lesson, cleans, deadlifts…
Charlie's kinda wondering why I skipped happy hour.
After a day of teaching, my singing lesson, cleans, deadlifts, and stabilizing accessory work, I got in a really great practice... Clocking in around 40 minutes, and really just a bit of primary.
At @dcashtanga -- our moon day is tomorrow. I'm stoked. The planets have had a crazy strong pull-- this Gemini is feeeeeeling it.
Am I too late for 1/2 price mussels??
After a day of teaching, my singing lesson, cleans, deadlifts, and stabilizing accessory work, I got in a really great practice... Clocking in around 40 minutes, and really just a bit of primary.
At @dcashtanga -- our moon day is tomorrow. I'm stoked. The planets have had a crazy strong pull-- this Gemini is feeeeeeling it.
Am I too late for 1/2 price mussels??
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WHAT MAKES A GOOD MANTRA?
One that works!
I often sing "When you're good to mama" from Chicago to myself when I notice that I'm indulging a bit too heavily off syllabus during practice. The line "The system works! Caaaause the system works... the system called... reciprocity!" Stands out strongly in my mind.
Here, as I make a shape that is not within the system of Ashtanga, i am reminded that I am participating in contortion, not practicing the system of yoga as prescribed by my teachers. When I'm tempted to go off track, I have to gently remind myself to come back.
There is a brilliance to the system of yoga refined by Pattahbi Jois and Krishnamacharya over 80?-odd years in Mysore.
It radically opens the body, strengthens the nervous system, and stabilizes the mind. It also allows me to do all kinds of other modalities of human movement, performance, and play.
Having strong support inside the system, from my teachers, also makes the hard times easier-- like when I fall off my bike, push too hard, or discover a place that needs a (seemingly too slow) but of strength.
Frankly, you can't expect a radical restructuring to always be fast and easy, and as such, when the work demands it, I know how to work and modify... and I have faith that it'll be ok.
Just because I can make this shape doesn't mean I have a grounding in a system of yoga... but because I have a grounding in a system of yoga, I can make this shape.
Sing to with me: "RECIPROCITY!!!"
One that works!
I often sing "When you're good to mama" from Chicago to myself when I notice that I'm indulging a bit too heavily off syllabus during practice. The line "The system works! Caaaause the system works... the system called... reciprocity!" Stands out strongly in my mind.
Here, as I make a shape that is not within the system of Ashtanga, i am reminded that I am participating in contortion, not practicing the system of yoga as prescribed by my teachers. When I'm tempted to go off track, I have to gently remind myself to come back.
There is a brilliance to the system of yoga refined by Pattahbi Jois and Krishnamacharya over 80?-odd years in Mysore.
It radically opens the body, strengthens the nervous system, and stabilizes the mind. It also allows me to do all kinds of other modalities of human movement, performance, and play.
Having strong support inside the system, from my teachers, also makes the hard times easier-- like when I fall off my bike, push too hard, or discover a place that needs a (seemingly too slow) but of strength.
Frankly, you can't expect a radical restructuring to always be fast and easy, and as such, when the work demands it, I know how to work and modify... and I have faith that it'll be ok.
Just because I can make this shape doesn't mean I have a grounding in a system of yoga... but because I have a grounding in a system of yoga, I can make this shape.
Sing to with me: "RECIPROCITY!!!"
The Ashtanga Yoga practice, as taught to me by my teachers in the tradition of Sri K Pattabhi Jois, is incredibly powerful.
It is a spiritual practice, in so far as it helps you find the best of what's inside of you... and brings it out. Your spirit. Who you are on the inside-- your natural, beautiful self. Your god stuff.
Are you interested in - developing physical fitness: strength, flexibility, and grace?
-Establishing mental and emotional fortitude, leading to: resilience, distress tolerance, and general stability of attitude - healthy relationships-- with others as well as with yourself. - brining clarity to your natural rhythms and cycles.
Taught one one one in a group setting, students are free to come and go at their leisure.
Join us M-Thurs, 6-9:30 at @kaliyogadc
Fridays, 6:15-7:45 (led primary)
Sunday 8-10a (open practice)
I'm also available for private sessions. -- Here I am with Whitney Paterson @yogawhitney -- a phenomenal student and trusted apprentice/assistant. She's made two trips to Mysore to study with one of my teachers, Sharath Jois (the director of the ashtanga yoga institute). She's a kind hearted woman, a gifted ayuevrdic consultant/practitioner, and has dutifully co-taught with me.
Next month, she'll be starting the @dcashtanga afternoon sessions. M-W, 4:30-630!
It is a spiritual practice, in so far as it helps you find the best of what's inside of you... and brings it out. Your spirit. Who you are on the inside-- your natural, beautiful self. Your god stuff.
Are you interested in - developing physical fitness: strength, flexibility, and grace?
-Establishing mental and emotional fortitude, leading to: resilience, distress tolerance, and general stability of attitude - healthy relationships-- with others as well as with yourself. - brining clarity to your natural rhythms and cycles.
Taught one one one in a group setting, students are free to come and go at their leisure.
Join us M-Thurs, 6-9:30 at @kaliyogadc
Fridays, 6:15-7:45 (led primary)
Sunday 8-10a (open practice)
I'm also available for private sessions. -- Here I am with Whitney Paterson @yogawhitney -- a phenomenal student and trusted apprentice/assistant. She's made two trips to Mysore to study with one of my teachers, Sharath Jois (the director of the ashtanga yoga institute). She's a kind hearted woman, a gifted ayuevrdic consultant/practitioner, and has dutifully co-taught with me.
Next month, she'll be starting the @dcashtanga afternoon sessions. M-W, 4:30-630!
#Reposting @hotspotdupont -- We have a lot of gratitude for @michaeljoelhall for sharing an amazing class with us at Yoga in the Park yesterday! See you all again on Sunday at 5pm. Until then join us in the hot room at #hotspotdupont for some 26&2. #yogaeveryday #outdooryoga #hotyoga
On my way to Meridian Hill Park to teach a free outdoor class! See ya at 5!
Join me today for Yoga in The Park! 5pm at the top of Meridian Hill Park (bring a towel or mat!).
I *LOVE* practicing outside!!! Come play!! I'm an active member of the HSD community-- who also maintains a daily practice of Ashtanga Yoga-- if you know me from either community, I do hope you'll come out and say hi!
WE'RE HERE! WE'RE QUEER! GET USED TO IT!
I wish that the White House would have acknowledged the male spouse of Luxembourgs's male prime minister. I wish that 45 would have made a statement for June, which is Pride Month. I do not wish I hadn't been assaulted physically and verbally most days growing up-- told my voice, my body, my mind, and my capacity for love were wrong, ugly and loathesome-- because it has made me who I am today. However, I do not wish it on your children, my children, or anyone else.
As a child, that kind of violence almost killed my spirit. As an adult, it almost killed my human form.
The silence is deafening and the message is clear. Systematic erasure. You want to help? Know that it's pride. Know when black history month is. Talk frankly and openly about sexuality and race. If you can't, ask for help. Im talking frank conversation from your cohort. If you don't have anyone you can have this conversation with, I'm here. Get real. Get woke. GET LOUD.
I assure you, WE aren't going back in the closet-- we won't die to the pages of history. Tell your friends.
I wish that the White House would have acknowledged the male spouse of Luxembourgs's male prime minister. I wish that 45 would have made a statement for June, which is Pride Month. I do not wish I hadn't been assaulted physically and verbally most days growing up-- told my voice, my body, my mind, and my capacity for love were wrong, ugly and loathesome-- because it has made me who I am today. However, I do not wish it on your children, my children, or anyone else.
As a child, that kind of violence almost killed my spirit. As an adult, it almost killed my human form.
The silence is deafening and the message is clear. Systematic erasure. You want to help? Know that it's pride. Know when black history month is. Talk frankly and openly about sexuality and race. If you can't, ask for help. Im talking frank conversation from your cohort. If you don't have anyone you can have this conversation with, I'm here. Get real. Get woke. GET LOUD.
I assure you, WE aren't going back in the closet-- we won't die to the pages of history. Tell your friends.
Charlie is ready for summer.
Charlie is ready for summer.
You can break down this stuff three ways: work, play, and deliberate practice. For my dear friend @livelyogini & I, we wanted to take some of the time we've spent with deliberate practice of the Ashtanga methods D.C. and utilize its skills differently, in a form of play.
@antoninaletunovskaya gave us a contortion/acrobatic private, and we got to P L A Y-- and it was SO MUCH FUN. As a student of integrative studies at George Mason, I developed a taste for knitting together and leaning into different and often disparate fields of study and especially their experts.
It was such a great experience-- Antonia is an absolute gem. At 29 and 34, Maggie and I get to say we did something we've never done. Luckily, as teachers of Ashtanga Yoga, we're in the business of believing the impossible is possible.
Fun is fun, and play is play. Good practice requires deliberate attention.
Let your practice let you play!
@antoninaletunovskaya gave us a contortion/acrobatic private, and we got to P L A Y-- and it was SO MUCH FUN. As a student of integrative studies at George Mason, I developed a taste for knitting together and leaning into different and often disparate fields of study and especially their experts.
It was such a great experience-- Antonia is an absolute gem. At 29 and 34, Maggie and I get to say we did something we've never done. Luckily, as teachers of Ashtanga Yoga, we're in the business of believing the impossible is possible.
Fun is fun, and play is play. Good practice requires deliberate attention.
Let your practice let you play!
Through the practice of constraint upon the kurma nadi, the yogin gains steadiness.
Through the practice of constraint upon the light in the head, he gains the visions of the adepts.
Or through a flash of illumination (pratibha), everything.
Through the practice of constraint upon the light in the head, he gains the visions of the adepts.
Or through a flash of illumination (pratibha), everything.
Are you interested in practicing in community with other LGBTQ folks and their allies? I am-- thats why I'll be teaching a session this summer! Stonewall Yoga is all about inclusivitiy, good vibes, and community.
Today and tomorrow, use offer code LASTMINUTE and take $10 off (you know how we mysore folks are, just showing up whenever).
https://virabyoga.regfox.com/summer-registration
Today and tomorrow, use offer code LASTMINUTE and take $10 off (you know how we mysore folks are, just showing up whenever).
https://virabyoga.regfox.com/summer-registration
May 2017
What do you do when it starts to rain after sun salutations? Do you curse the salutations for not delivering on their promise?
At @dcashtanga -- we laugh a lot. It's all such serious business this yoga stuff, it's good to develop a predilection for good humor. After all, the universe has a sense of one, and it's often a bit dark.
Practice and all is coming 😉 We're open on:
Thursday 'till 1, and
Friday is led primary at 6:15
At @dcashtanga -- we laugh a lot. It's all such serious business this yoga stuff, it's good to develop a predilection for good humor. After all, the universe has a sense of one, and it's often a bit dark.
Practice and all is coming 😉 We're open on:
Thursday 'till 1, and
Friday is led primary at 6:15
I love this picture!
Doofy boy on the water.
Doofy boy on the water.
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