Fruitcakes
On accounta the season, I have a few items of interest.
1) Yoga Now Holiday Specials are a good deal for real:
1) Yoga Now Holiday Specials are a good deal for real:
Buy 10 Classes and get 2 classes free
Buy 20 Classes and get 4 classes free
Buy 6 months of yoga for $600 and get the 7th month free
2) I am apparently the only yoga teacher in town December 26th. If you're in town, too, come to Yoga Now, where I will be teaching the 10am, 12pm AND 4pm classes! I am also doing the 8am at Equinox Lincoln Park, and the 6pm at Walt Whitman. - ! - (I dare you to come to Walt Whitman.)
3) My mother called me Thursday to tell me how elated she feels when she hears Christmas music. That it was snowing in Mississippi was only icing on the figgy pudding. Bless her.
4) Do you experience stress during this time of year? Holiday Burn-out? Seasonal Affective Disorder? New Years Resolution Anxiety? Chapped lips? Come to my really yummy Restorative Yoga workshop Jan 3rd, where you can do nearly nothing and feel so very much better. Nobody shouldn't come. Broken legs, mother-to-be, just had an appendectomy, unsure of one's own existence - all green lights here. If you've been to Sunday nights at YogaNow, you have an idea of what your in for. We'll be laying on pillows, listening to chakra-tuned singing bowls, huffing flower essences... SIDE EFFECTS: Increased Lucidity, Episodes of Quietude, Frequent Smiling Spells, Possible Spontaneous Enlightenment/Snoring. Check it out:
YOGANOW GOLDCOAST SATURDAY JAN 3, 1pm-3pm, $30
5) To save you the trouble of having to look it up, Hanukkah is Dec 21-29 this year.
Kwanzaa, created by Ron Karenga in 1966, is, conveniently, celebrated Dec 26-Jan 1 with candles and libations. It is possible that many of us have observed Kwanzaa annually without even knowing it.
Buddhists celebrate Bodhi Day, the day of Enlightenment, on Dec 8th. (Missed it again!)
Michael Jackson, having converted to Islam, will be celebrating Muharram on Dec 29th this year. Muharram is the first month of the Islamic calendar, and, thankfully, one of the designated months of the year that fighting is prohibited.
Christmas, an American retail holiday of alleged Christian origin, begins a few hours before Thanksgiving and ends on Superbowl Sunday. In some parts of the world, militant re-enactment extremists celebrate the holiday by placing a live infant on a theater set made up like a Palestinian animal shelter from the year 0 BCE and drowning its cries with choral music.
But let's put aside our differences. After all, there is something every winter holiday* has in common: the darkest days on the calendar. So, what the heck - Muslim, Jew, Christian, or Pan-Afrikan Cultural Black Nationalist - light a candle. Preferably between 4pm and 7am, when it helps the most.
*in the Northern Hemisphere.
6) Share the name of your favorite Holiday item (song, food, coupon) and perhaps a heartwarming backstory as a comment to this entry and I will send you a holiday/sympathy card. Yes, in the real live mail. (I'll email you for your postal address - don't put it on the blog. Web-crawling bots will tag your front door on Google Earth.)
7) This year, try not to be an A-hole. Because things get out of hand in December, I offer you this Public Service Announcement: Do not jaywalk over ice, snow, or that stuff in between; you can't run, and cars can't stop. Consider that your cashier (busdriver, employee, server, parking attendant, bf/gf/bff/fwb/fbnsa) may be 1 complaint away from total meltdown - you have to admit, you really don't know what another person's insides are like, so maybe be nice. And finally, when re-gifting, use fresh wrapping paper; the details make all the difference.
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i really enjoy reading your blog.
haven't seen you at spa cafe in a long while...hope you didn't dislike the food.
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Sadie!
I haven't been teaching my Friday morning class down there in a few... Don't worry - I love the food! And I'll be back around in January... meantime you gonna come check out some yoga, right? Best blessings all around, ladybug.
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