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THIS WEEKEND! A Community Potluck for Creatives Every Last Sunday of the Month at Studio DE-CONSTRUKT  THIS Sun, July 28th, 6-9pm @DE-CONSTRUKT, 41 Seabring St, 3rd  flr .  FB Invite  https://www.facebook. com/events/326991694918920/ FREE! Please bring food and or drink to share!

Procession for  KALI MA (Black Madonna of the East)   during our Annual  Yo! Yogi Hip Hop Yoga Retreat  By the time the Sanskrit scholars of India set to write down the sacred texts of Yoga, Black Warrior Goddess Kali was already being maligned. European colonial disgust shown for Kali and her worshippers drew from negative characterizations of elite Indian discourse. Any record of the point of view of those “others” who worshipped “The Black One" is sorely lacking from the Vedic and Puranic periods. Kali derives in part from an ancient deity indigenous to the people of Tamil called “Kottavai.” This Goddess rides a tiger, wears a necklace of tiger teeth, and shouts in victory on the battlefield where she comes to kill, eat flesh and drink blood. Kottavai embodies “ananku” an early conception of shakti - the dangerous power inherent to the natural world, female humans & deities. Ananku can be found in the breasts, loins, and genitals of living women, and manifests a

Thank you everyone that came thru Friday to our   FULL MOON CYPHER Much gratitude to co-creators    Charlotte Cwikowski ,   Tristen Goodwin ,   Alison Beth Levy ,   Leo Eng Oliver ,   GIL, Courtney & our host  De Construkt . We have one more cypher before our family departs for the South of Italy to study the tradition of the Black Madonna all of August. Join us this Friday for a farewell HIGH ON HIP HIP YOGA Cypher at Daya in Bushwick.  High on Hip Hop Yoga Friday July 26th 7-9pm DAYA Yoga Studio 360 Jefferson Brooklyn, NY 11237 L train to Jefferson Stop   Led by  Undakova  &  High Prieztezz Or Nah  of  Ultracultural Others  Urban Mystery Skool . A fusion of  Hip Hop Yoga  led by MC "Make Change" Undakova, a native New Yorker and renown conscious hip hop artist and his partner High Prieztezz Or Nah, aka Katie, a Yoga instructor at DAYA and Shakti Slayer. Based in the 5 Elements of Holistic Hip Hop, this work is

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 Inside  the B E A T!  Welcome back to Inside the BEAT! With Spring having peaked its head and already giving way to Summer, I couldn’t help but notice how BEAT is similarly going through a transition. The impact of our growth was apparent at the 2019 EDxEDNYC Professional Learning Conference, where BEAT held down a booth and connected with an incredible array of teachers, administrators, and educators from all five boroughs and beyond. Incredibly, this year's theme was “ Empowering Educators for Equity and Excellence ” --many of the topics and breakout sessions centered around the importance and inclusion of art and creativity as pathways to improved mental health and better lives, and emphasis supporting BEAT’s philosophy that the most effective learning takes place when the student is intrinsically motivated to learn. In short, we have been on the right track! We’ve been pioneering, and in many ways, leading the way in using our unique Hip Hop-based progra

 Inside  the B E A T!  As we celebrate our nations' birthday, freedoms and independence this July 4th, we're proud to empower youth with the freedom to express themselves simply using their own voice and body. And we're inspired to see the power of music and Hip-Hop to unleash their creativity and potential! You can help further our mission by donating just $15 as we launch a fundraising platform here:  http://give.classy.org/ beatglobal . Please help us reach our first goal of $500 this holiday weekend. ($500 can provide a workshop up to 20 students!) 100% of online donations will go directly towards providing BEAT Global's unique Hip-Hop based educational programs to more youths in underserved communities. Hope you all have a happy, safe and wonderful rest of the holiday weekend. Sincerely, James and BEAT Global Forward Share Tweet Share Make a Difference! Your generosity will go a long way

Thank you everyone who came out to DREAM BEAT TAURUS: FEMININE FORCE!   hope you were all able to take some time out during this New Moon to meditate, focus inward and seed the foundation for your steady, abundant, plentiful financial outlook. The BULL knows its worth and grounds itself in the richness it requires. As we drink in the most divine nectars of Spring, may we likewise SPRING into right, nourishing action. the next DREAM BEAT  will take place in Thailand on the Beach celebrating Summer Solstice at our annual  Yo! Yogi Hip Hop Yoga Retreat If you're a locally based RIDE OR CRY dream beat regular, you can seed our next NYC event, which will be a FULL MOON CIPHER happening at our partner Deconstrukt in Brooklyn. Scroll down for details. photo: Dream Beat New Moon in Taurus, courtesy Local Project with digital manipulation by Or Nah FULL MOON CIPHER Hip Hop Yoga for EARTH WARRIORS Friday July 19th 7-10pm @ Deconstrukt 41 Seabring 3rd Floo