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Brave Yoga in the Gallery or from Home

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  I love to share yoga with everyone who wants to give it a try.  I love making yoga accessible to every BODY that want to give it a try.  Yoga is such a great way to practice breathing, relaxing and stretching for a healthier and more enjoyable life.  I offer yoga 2 times a week, Thursday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. inside the main gallery of White Rabbit Galleries {571 W. Tuscarawas Ave., Barberton OH}.   There is street parking, and just to the west is a city parking lot.  (The signs all say reserved, but that does not apply during the times of our classes!) I have found that I am most comfortable with inviting students to pay what they can.  I suggest $10 per session, but there is never any pressure to pay a set amount.  I accept cash, and students can make change.  If you would like to pay what you can online, here is a link to send some moolah my way: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5UNUG8E9U2SB4 Now I'm pleased to announce that anyone can hop onto the cl
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Preview of Square and Sublime Art

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I was going to wait until tomorrow to share this.  It's a little preview of the art in the show.  They now all have black frames and are displayed on the wall of my studio, The Blue Door Atelier.  Please come out and see them in person Friday evening, 5-8 p.m. or Saturday afternoon, 1 - 5 p.m.  All the proceeds from everything sold in my little studio this weekend will go into m little travel fund.  I have loads of original art, prints, greeting cards, and Just For Fun paper earrings. Here is the preview:
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Happy Birthday To Me

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Happy Birthday to me!  I am a person who enjoys celebrating another trip around the earth, but this year it's hard to believe that I have completed 55 trips!  55!  That sure does sound older than I feel, even on creaky mornings! This year I am planning a year of simple wonders and traveling adventures.  I'm hoping that my art friends, followers, and patrons {who have come through with so much love and support for me} will join me in preparing. I'm inviting you to celebrate with me.  On January 19 and 20, I am hosting a pop up show of 38 square pieces I created in 2023.  Square and Sublime--they are experimental and mostly abstract.  Each piece was inspired by a single word.  Most pieces have a little story--a few sentences about how I interpreted that word.  Each piece is a 8 x 8 canvas in a black frame.  For just this special weekend I will be offering each piece for $55.  (After this weekend, any remaining pieces will be $65.)  All of the proceeds from this show will go t
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Welcome 2024: Renewed Yoga Offerings

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  Full moon over fields 4x5 inches, acrylic on canvas The new year is filled with optimism and hope and possibilities.  A goal I have for this year is to build a larger and more interactive community around my passions of art, education yoga and hiking.  I'm not clear on all the pragmatic applications, but I am clear that this is a path forward that we can share.  I will be providing opportunities for us to gather and grow together. The first opportunity I'm bringing forward is a renewal of my yoga offerings.  I would like to expand this very loyal micro-community, so that we can share the benefits of this gentle hatha style yoga with more human beings.  In the process I'm certain we will also deepen the benefits for ourselves. Consider this your special invitation from me to you! Thursday evening, 7 p.m. is a good hour of mindful movement geared at breathing in and out with our whole being to release tension and stress and expand flexibility of movement and thinking. Satur
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Simple Wonders: Looking Toward 2024

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  As I review the past year or so, I know that I took an approach toward art and life of throwing everything up on the wall and seeing what would stick.  I tried many different things.  I put many different offerings into the world.  I ran from one thing to another.  It has been exhausting and honestly unfulfilling.  It's difficult to acknowledge that I'm putting a creative part of myself out into the world, and there are no takers.  I know something has to change, but it takes time to pause, evaluate, and reset.  I'm trying to do some of that right now. In 2024, it is my intention to seek and share what I'm titling "Simple Wonders."  These are the sorts of things that are around us every single day, but in our busy-ness of running after more, more, more (you fill in the blank for whatever you are pursuing--education, relationship, money, career, fitness, a portfolio of work, connection, family, creativity--whatever your thing or things might be.). I often get
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Solstice Gifts and Art in Process

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Work in progress Work in progress   Happy Winter Solstice 2023! Today you might have noticed is the longest night of the year.  This event holds so much meaning for humanity, both past and present, and for our home, the Earth.  It's a wonderful time to take a look within and see how one might be shining your light into the world as a way to illuminate the path for others.  It might be a time to look into the darkness and face fears.  It might also be a time to look ahead to goals you have as the days become lighter.  Life is a process and a journey, and days like today allow us to be reminded of such things.  May this be a gift for you on your journey. I took  time to challenge myself with some intense cleaning work this morning, and then I allowed myself to be renewed by practicing art.  I started a refresh of a piece with roses, and I started a wintery landscape.  Both of these pieces are larger than anything I have done recently.  The roses are 36 x 36 inches,  and the winter sc
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A Creative Challenge For The New Year

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A bit of verdigris, 12 x 12 inches, $60 In my creative process I can easily get lost in the vast realm of possibility.  It turns into a paralyzing inertia, and I cease to create.  In an effort to override this I give myself creative challenges.  I creating every day or once a week.  I use words for inspiration.  I work in a particular size.  You get the idea. I have decided that for 2024, I am going to see how much I can create with the supplies I already have.  I imagine I will need more acrylic paint,  and I hope to need more findings for earrings.  Other than those 2 items I'm going to see how much I can create with the materials I already have.I hope to document how much art I can create without buying any other materials! I hope you will follow along on this little challenge.  Will I give up in the first few weeks?  How will this impact my creativity and art making? How to you overcome inertia?  What sort of challenges do you give yourself?
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