Posts Tagged ‘Alex Hickey’

Love your body, Love your life through Nia!

This year, I decided on a less traditional and more self-full way to celebrate Valentine’s. This weekend, I taught special “self love” themed Nia classes. Without going over the top, I encouraged all of us to spend the hour-and-15-minute class in appreciation. Appreciation for our bodies, minds, emotions and spirits. After all, how can we…

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Hillside 2010

This past weekend I attended Hillside for the 3rd year in a row. (My post about my inaugural Hillside experience is here if you’re curious!). I was lucky to be Hillsiding with and around Kate McMurray,  Chris Kay Fraser of Firefly Creative Writing, Elizabeth Fraser of 52 Projects: A Year from Scratch, the talented singer/songwriter…

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Shiny Ropes

Just about a month ago now, I received an email from a woman named Shazia Islam. Enter personal growth opportunity and confidence booster. Synchronicity. Enter Shiny Ropes. The subject header on the email was ‘Re: Nia Community Dance Jam on Sunday!’. I didn’t remember anyone named Shazia, so I figured it was related to the…

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Creative Co-Construction

From July 25-27, 2008 I was at Hillside Festival in Guelph Ontario. Hillside is an impressively conscious indie-music festival. There are no wasted beer cups, water bottles, or food-stuffs. From compost bins to volunteers-who-wash-your-plates-and-cutlery to mandated-purchase-of-beer-steins to empty-milk-trucks-filled-with-free-water, it is a limited footprint situation. Weekend-long music and workshops (drumming, dancing, sex education, crafting), Tibetan monks,…

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