From Yoga Anatomy & Dance Party Workout: Coloring to work your core
You are at your yoga or dance class. Your teacher keeps referring to your psoas or to your six pack using latin terminology. Confused, you follow along but wonder what you missed. Enter The Yoga Anatomy Coloring Book by Kelly Solloway. What more could you…
Creativity DIY: Drawing from Dance
Creative DIY: Meme/Theme Episode 2 – Last month, I live streamed for my second DIY creativity meme/theme episode: Drawing from Dance. Inspired music and dance that fuses modern, hip hop, jazz, and world beats, this workshop transfers the kinesthetic experience of expressive dance to expressive…
Creative DIY: Amabie
Creative DIY: Meme/Theme Episode 1 – Find inspiration from a protector meme that took off in Japan at the start of the pandemic. Like Pokemon, she’s a yokai, a mysterious creature foretelling of hardship, survival and harvest. Come explore and post your creation below! More…
Ten Innovative Art Videos that Dance
In film I can make the world dance. Maya Deren, avant-garde filmmaker, dancer, choreographer Isn’t it time you realize that dancing is nothing more than a form of expression or release? Audrey Hepburn as Jo Stockton, bohemian bookstore owner in Funny Face. Since we are…
3 Life Hacks for Well-Being
Happy Valentines Day! It seems like a peculiar time to revisit this idea that whatever you dream of you can achieve, given, as one of my daughter’s friends noted, “It’s the anniversary since we first quarantined.” But after a year in quarantine, finding a life…
DIY Quarantine Fashion: Beanie vs. Slouchy Hat
Find Paris Heart Tee above on Etsy. The homespun look seems to be making a coming back couched as eco-conscious or upcycled fashion in response to global warming and our more frugal standards of living in these times. Taking up knitting or crochet is like…
Four New Years Beanie Resolutions
This year seemed to be a good year to skip sending holidays cards. There was such a sameness to our days in quarantine. But with each holiday card we received, my guilt grew for not doing one. So I made a homegrown one that reflected…
Montreal Mural Festival
Montreal Mural Festival This larger than life costume fantasy caught my eye at the Montreal Mural Festival* when we visited June 2019. We had ventured to Montreal and Mont Tremblant, a ski resort, on an East Coast trip that included a pit stop to New…
Ultimate Barbies: From Sassy Call Girl to Elton John
Barbie’s hard to pin down. On the one hand, her figure is an idea, merely a design of an ideal: a pin up girl, a sassy comic book call girl. Modeled after Bild Lilli, a gag gift for men, she has been reinvented but still maintains…
3 Creative Retreats to Wellness during Quarantine
As the school year winds down and we transition into the summer, I feel freed up to pursue 3 things that’s been shelved until now: Binaural beats with visualization The Artist’s Way – the book that launched a thousand+ artists The Science of Well-Being, offered at Yale…