67°F4:55 AM Get In Shape This New Year at Yoga on Baxter. [Health & Fitness]
The best way to start your New Year is to start thinking healthier. I’m not talking about getting out every day and running 12 miles and feeling like you’re going to pass out. I’m talking about a healthy start in an easy welcoming atmosphere. Yoga on Baxter is this type of place, it’s amazing and definitely makes you sweat. The teachers are amazing and they have a great introductory offer $30 for 30 days. Now the classes they have are prepared for all types of people and whatever level you are experienced at. I had never done yoga before, so this was an experience.
September is National Yoga Month [Health/Fitness]
September is National Yoga month, a perfect time to try that workout everyone keeps talking about.
Hike, Bike, and Paddle gears up for labor day [Sports]
This labor day do something good for yourself and your family with Mayor Greg Fisher’s Hike, Bike, and Paddle. A labor-day event, the Hike, Bike, and Paddle has proven itself to be one of the most popular activities in the area.
This year the event has gained such attention that in addition to the usual walking, boating, and biking annually held, a course for kayaking and canoeing as well as morning yoga and tai-chi will be added to the events festivities.
Glassblower Jonathan Swanz is blowing up in the best way [Visual Art]
Jonathan Swanz, a New Albany High School graduate, is now one of the leading glass artists in the region. He specializes in decorative art, complex functional sculpture, and architectural glass.
Creating calm children at Shine [Family and parenting]
Yoga is nothing new, according to Yoga Journal, an estimated 15 million Americans partake in yoga each year. But the newest yoga trend to sweep the nation is the concept of "family yoga" where yogis are created even in infancy.
Register for Camp Odyssey and nurture your kids’ connection to Mother Earth [Highlands]
Registration is now open for the Camp Odyssey summer program, which will take place this June at the Passionist Earth & Spirit Center in the Highlands. The fun and educational program is designed to help children connect with the Earth, awakening a sense of awe and wonder about the planet we live on.
Campers—grade school children who have completed kindergarten to 6th grade—will explore nature, science, hiking, music and movement, yoga, the arts, gardening, sustainable living and more on the center’s 20 acres.
A workout with rhythm: Review of Saturday's belly dance workshop [Dance]
When a little more than an hour into the beginner's belly dance workshop last Saturday instructor Jeannine stopped teaching and performed a fully choreographed drum solo, I never imagined I'd be doing that very dance by the end of the next hour. I don't think any of the new dancers did, but an hour later we all found ourselves moving through the dance with a new understanding not only of the steps and motions, but also of the allure of the dance itself.
Shake, roll, and shimmy through Saturday afternoon's belly dance workshop [Dance]
The mysterious and beautiful art of belly dance has caught the attention of men and women in the west since the early 19th century, and this Saturday Louisville women have the chance to learn its basics.
Yoga on Baxter (1611 Eastern Parkway) is offering a crash course in belly dance workshop Saturday, March 5, from 2-4 p.m. No prior experience is necessary; the class is perfect for women of any shape, age, and size. Participants should bring a scarf to tie on the hips and $25.00 for the cost of the workshop.
Freeman shares his dance, piece of Indian culture [Dance]
In a unique and educational solo performance Saturday night, Jaan Freeman of New York City's Dakshina Palli shared a dance born of Hindu temples in southern India. Freeman opened with a dance of invocation which was primarily aesthetic in nature, not seeming to follow any particular storyline but instead introducing the audience to the type of movement and step it would enjoy throughout the evening.
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