Kathie Dunbar, executive director of the South Lansing Community Development Association, wrote this article in her newsletter Tuesday, March 6. It is reprinted here with her permission. Many thanks to her for her lovely sentiment and sharing yoga with south Lansing. And if you don’t know who Kathie is, read this recent FEATURE article about
My name is Jeremy. I am a 6-foot-tall black male. I could stand to lose some extra pounds to put it nicely. I like football and basketball. When I work out, it’s with weights or I force myself to run. Growing up I had no exposure to any yoga. Once, an actor from a soap
Young people can and do have lots to offer our community. We just need to listen with fresh ears, invite without conditions and see through their fresh eyes. Check out this amazing art from Reach Studio Art Center students for Just B Yoga. They are working a special project to create some panels for the
Black people like music. We like to sing it, play it, dance to it. (We invented it actually) A key to authenticating your blackness has a lot of musical influence: In the chapter on How to be a black friend in “How to Be Black:” “Ideally, you will be fairly competent in at least one
Day 2: The Just B blog will count down through Black History Month moments and elements of Just “B”eing, tying in elements from “How to Be Black”, Yoga and life. I hope this month is about discovering something new about ourselves in our community that we didn’t know before, that helps us recognize our similarities
Every sister wants a book to be published nationally by her brother the day before her birthday with her year of birth in it, right? Yes, Baratunde outed my age in his book, “How to Be Black.” Nice. I’ll remember that. Payback’s a … Yep, I’m 44 years old today. The number really doesn’t fase
JBBRII is in place (Just B Bike Rack II). It takes a village and that village must have muscles and wheels. If you’ve read our blog or been to our studio at all you know that providing parking for our cycling students has tested our faith and sensibilities 🙂 Our first bike rack was installed
UPDATED DEC. 29 JUST B WILL DONATE HALF OF ALL PROCEEDS FROM OUR JAN 2 CLASSES TO ST. VINCENT DE PAUL STORE. PLEASE HELP US HELP OUR NEIGHBORS. THEY PROVIDE A VITAL SERVICE FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND ARE A CENTRAL PART OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. Can’t make it to class on Monday? Feel free to use
If you’ve never heard the vocals or the instrumentals from this gifted sister, you must! Her name is Lyric’Lee. She’s in Lansing. And her sound is tight. Here’s two tracks from her performance at Just B Yoga on Black Friday. Lyric’Lee performs “Little Girl” at Just B Yoga’s “How to Be Black” event
You missed it. Period. We didn’t. So there. But we’ll share.
I don’t always drive like a yogi. If you saw me pull out when the light turns green you’d think I was an aspiring dragster (4-cylinder Toyota or not) until you saw the Just B Yoga magnet on the back of the car. I don’t like people riding my bumper. I can’t stand drivers who
Thanks to Jackie Starbrite, an amazing student and friend for sharing this. How do you live your yoga? What’s your yoga statement?
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