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View this email in your browser Today in Women's History Chicana activist, Graciela Olivárez, was born today in 1928. Graciela had a varied and distinguished career, which included becoming one of the first female radio disk jockeys in Phoenix, directing the Office of Economic Opportunity for Arizona, earning a law degree at Notre Dame Law School, and serving in President Carter's administration as Director of Community Services. She became the highest ranking Mexican American woman in Carter's administration, a post she held until 1980. Teaching Artist Spotlight   We would like to give a huge shout out to our BEAT Breakers instructor Christina "Miss CC" Cruz. Christina was born and raised in The South Bronx, NY. She holds a BA in Dance at Lehman College. For the past 2 years, she has held the position as Company Director for Hip Hop Theory: The Company as well as Director for Each 1 Teach One Dance Series. For the past year...

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, a...

We just dropped the Vitamix Ep. Get in the mix and experience the miracles by clicking the image below.  Money Ain’t Everything https://open.spotify.com/album/6D2bsskY4eEDHdvSp8QRQW Ganesha Ganesha  https://open.spotify.com/album/6kHRrNq6C9iMxW1LT0xjlV I Think I can  https://open.spotify.com/album/7kKoBkr2gHnJdqmsyHLEMP

Dream Beat is unique medicine.  A warming cocoon, our New Moon ritual space is a place to soothe your nerves and slowly relax into your body. We open with meditation. We turn up. Ecstatic dance links us to one another and to the web of the greater cosmos, we begin to feel at one within the Universal whole.  We connect, we raise the vibes, maybe cipher a little or imbibe some sacred cacao. And then we cool down, or "warm-down" as we like to say... But THIS NEW MOON It's time to draw upon THE FEMININE FORCE!            ( ͡°  ͜ʖ  ͡°) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿'̿'\̵͇̿̿\ з = ( ▀ ͜͞ʖ▀) =ε/̵͇̿̿/'̿'̿ ̿ ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿̿ ▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一 ( ͡°( ͡°  ͜ʖ ( ͡°  ͜ʖ  ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°) ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ (▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿) (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง  ༼  つ ◕_◕  ༽ つ ಠ_ಠ (づ｡ ◕‿‿◕｡) づ ̿'̿'\̵͇̿̿\ з =( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)=ε/̵͇̿̿/'̿̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ ✧ﾟ・: * ヽ (◕ヮ ◕ヽ ) [ ̲̅ $ ̲̅ (̲̅5̲̅) ̲̅ $ ̲̅ ] ┬┴┬┴┤  ͜ʖ  ͡°) ├┬┴┬┴ ( ͡° ╭͜ʖ ╮͡° )  DREAM...

How can I get the love and attention I deserve for your being my highest and most authentic self? It is important to take stock of our subconscious, hidden desires, and intentions. Keeping them hidden from your view with denial is what keeps them fully charged up and having power over your Mojo. Way #1 Manage your power wisely.  Learn how to safely recharge your body, mind and spirit by  Balancing your Chakras Learn the importance of sleep for your body. Don't tamper with your Mojo or use it for ill will. Cultivate the seed within you that enables you to be agent of the divine. Keep a daily track of how much Mojo you put out in comparison to how much is coming in. Give yourself the intimacy and love you deserve but subconsciously seek from others Enjoy and recharge by taking a  retreat in nature  to come back to your center. Stay home and do something creative for yourself (ie have a dance party, paint, listen to some high vibrational mus...

 WHAT IS HIP HOP YOGA  ?    If you're like UNDAKOVA, you may have witnessed first hand the social and cultural toll the extremes of global-capitalism and the “American Dream” have taken on communities, particularly urban black families. Part of the inspiration of our work as Hip Hop Yogis is calling a hault to the madness of overconsumption, alienation and lack. While in his youth UNDAKOVA saw his teenage posse poised to rise to fame as the next “it” boys, for over a decade the artist went ghost as he indulged in self-realization work, eventually, emerging as a pioneering leader of the fusion of Hip Hop and Yoga with his now partner, Or Nah. Influenced personally by Vipassana meditation, the Bagua map of Daoist cosmology and Zen Baoding balls, today a major part of the UNDAKOVA Hip Hop yoga mission and his service as an artist involves “remedying a world in which many have lost touch with their true nature and ability to practice self-aut...

You have the skills. You have the talent. So why is your greatness not being noticed by the entire world? Over the past ten years have you constantly been in over your head doing several odd jobs and working on people's projects that now you have no time to support your own well being, live your purpose, grow your income, have a family? If you already have gotten a bit defensive from what you read thus far. My advice is don't read any further until you put yourself in a better mood. This might sting a little. . .  "If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong. -Charles Kettering My bet is that you don't want to admit to yourself that you might be doing something " wrong ." To take a step back and see the facts. My bet is that you weren't in a crew or "collective" as they like to call it. All along all you were in a rut of constant "People Pleasing" ...