May 19, 1992 (Malcolm X’s birthday) I was hired at my first newspaper and defined myself by the title of reporter and journalist. June 29, 2012 (Stokeley Carmichael’s (Kwame Toure) birthday) I carve a new identity, one that is my own, shining from within. Happy birthday Malcolm, Kwame, Me.
This week is bittersweet. Friday will be my last day in a newsroom. I say goodbye to a 20-year roller coaster ride of a journalism career that has taken me from D.C. to Pittsburgh to New York to Dallas to Michigan. I say goodbye to living by the pace of the news as it develops;
Here’s the Just B Yoga Detour (instead of the Just B Yoga Tour which would be much more fun!) Washington Avenue is a mess! Yes, we know. Southbound traffic is closed. Yes – Sorry. How do we get to yoga? Do we quit? Do we turn to booze, drugs or at least donuts? NO!!! Take
Just B Yoga is open during the summer road construction on S. Washington. Don’t let the barrels and loaders and road equipment deter you from your practice. Starting June 6, southbound Washington will be closed to traffic but northbound is open. Here’s a map with a suggested detour taking S. Cedar south and cutting across
How does your yoga practice serve you? How do you serve through your yoga practice? “How did you change your life…how did that happen? What causes us to change? What is yoga?” — Beryl Bender Birch It’s been nearly two weeks since I came back from the first annual Yoga Service Conference at the Omega
Before I get into the amazing presentations of the Yoga Service Conference, I want to share a different kind of yoga service project. This is a project Reach Studio Art youths did in service of yoga and community through art at Just B Yoga. We are about building community and serving community. The art these
Yoga is definitely good at bringing out body-image issues. There’s nothing like a magazine cover photo of someone with their body folded in half or twisted in an apparent knot to make us turn our gazes away from our own bodies. I can’t wear that. I can’t put my foot there. My belly will be
The Keep the P.E.A.C.E. march against violence was Saturday. Emily White and I attended the march for Just B Yoga in support of our neighbors and neighborhoods. The gathering was more emotional than either of us bargained for. Surrounded by victims of homicide we walked through some of Lansing’s East Side neighborhoods chanting “Stop the
Just B Yoga will attend the Keep the P.E.A.C.E. march Saturday on Lansing’s east side. It is imperative to be there as a Lansing resident, as a Lansing business, as a Lansing yogi. Join us: Just B Yoga will leave the studio immediately after the 11 a.m. class at 12:30. The march begins at 1
Just B Yoga was awarded a Michigan Hometown Health Hero award this morning. It wasn’t about us though. Belinda, Monica Pino, Tara Scott, Kim Lewis, Emily White and Tiffany Lemieux McKissic got to spend the morning at the Capitol Rotunda with some amazing heroes of Michigan. These are people and organizations you might not have
By Tiffany Lemieux-McKissic “Dear all of my friends that work in Lansing: I am going to lunch time yoga today at Just B Yoga…you should come. In the event that you have an excuse why you won’t be able to make it I have prepared a handy list of why in fact that is crap: 1.
We asked you all…nah, we DARED you all to #JustBringIt to our debut open mic last Friday. WOW. We had about 40 people come to the studio to enjoy an evening of talent, sharing, emotions, laughter and fun. This event showed me not only how much talent is out there but how much it is
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