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
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
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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Here’s the latest podcast. I’m a little tardy in getting up last week’s flow. Many thanks to Audra Post for her amazing contribution to the playlist. Many of you don’t know in another lifetime I was an oboist. I was the principal oboist for the D.C. Youth Orchestra and for two years I majored in
It’s been an exciting time and a scary time. It sounds so cliche but it is hard to think we have been open for an entire year. The myriad of faces and smiles that have swept through our doors and sweated on our mats is overwhelming. The range of friendships that have grown is wonderful.
Anna Kaschner is a teacher at Just B Yoga. We love her smooth teaching style, so calming and restorative. She’ll never make you face your edges with a sharp-edged sword. She lets you take the baby steps you need to creep to the edge and take a peek over it. Anna is also one of
Today is a special Hip Hop Power Hour class. We will be visited by Uno Deuce Media to record a promo video for the studio. In honor of this I’ve worked on pulling together an ALL Lansing/Michigan playlist and will credit these artists on the vid. List to include Mizz Reality, Lyric’Lee, Othello, Ward Skillz,
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