Happy Thanksgiving!
This blog will be short and sweet today as I’m sure most of you are going to be very busy this weekend with family and friends. Here is a simple healthy recipe for baked oatmeal from Tosca Reno’s Eat Clean Cookbook. Bring it tonight to the family dinner, I am. It is so yummy!
Ingredients:
· 2cps oats
· 2cps soymilk
· ½ tsp vanilla
· 4 tbsp maple syrup
· ½ cup slivered almonds
· ½ cup dried cranberries
· 1 large grated apple
· Cinnamon and nutmeg
Prep:
· Oven at 400 degrees, Coat a large casserole dish with cooking spray
· Combine ingredients
· Place in casserole dish and bake uncovered for 45 minutes.
Enjoy your weekend!
Belly Dance Updates
Reminder: There will be NO belly dance or yoga classes this holiday Monday.
December 5th: I will be performing for Pandora's Box Salon in their "Around the World in 80 Minutes" show. For tickets and information please go to www.pandorasboxsalon.com or call 289-221-0229
Inspiration
I love FatChance Bellydance. They are such a great example of the bonding that goes on between fellow dancers. Here is a clip of them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2DalZdDDL8
Friday, February 18, 2011
Classroom Etiquette - Oct 3rd 2010
Classes are back in full force. I'm going to dedicate this blog to the do's and don'ts of classroom etiquettes.
Bellydance Updates
Pandora's Box Salon Dec 5th contact: www.pandorasboxsalon.com or 289-221-0229
Inspiration: When I first started dancing i had a vhs tape given to me by my teacher of this woman. I would rewind and watch and then rewind and watch again. She is so awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxDYlsXTQ30
- Do Arrive on Time
- Don't Waltz in after Warm-ups.
- Do Come Prepared
- Don't Leave Your Phone On
- Do Dress Appropriately.
- Don't Wear Perfume.
- Do Speak Up
- Don't Bring Your Ego
Bellydance Updates
Pandora's Box Salon Dec 5th contact: www.pandorasboxsalon.com or 289-221-0229
Inspiration: When I first started dancing i had a vhs tape given to me by my teacher of this woman. I would rewind and watch and then rewind and watch again. She is so awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxDYlsXTQ30
September 26 2010
Autumn is officially here and I wish a very happy Equinox to you all. To me Fall is much like New Year's to others. It is the perfect time to start fresh and build new healthy routines into your life. For some that could mean eating healthier or beginning a workout program. For others it can mean working on bringing balance to their lives. I like to do a bit of both.
My whole exercise routine usually gets an overhaul at this time of year. I pitch the exercises my body has gotten used to over the summer and replace it with exercises that challenge me. My new program is very heavy on weight training that has me progressively lifting heavier over 12 weeks. It is also very light on cardio which is a change for me. I'm so used to running 5x a week that it has actually been a struggle for me to dump a couple of cardio sessions. I do realize it will be beneficial to my energy levels in the end but I've been very comfortable being a cardio queen for a long time. Working towards balance (even in your workouts) isn't always easy. It involves trust and a willingness to change.
Sometimes just a small change can make a difference in balancing your life. One of the best desicions I've ever made was to tailor my lifestyle to my body's natural rhythm or menstrual cycle. When I'm entering a lunar cycle I allow myself to take naps when needed and increase my food intake without guilt. I will splurge on things that make me feel beautiful. I strive to do more creative things during this period and often am able to without creativity blocks. During my solar cycle I do more logical tasks and the grunt work that comes with creative ideas. I also tend to increase the intensity of my activities as my energy levels are usually soaring during this period. Life seems so much easier when I go with the flow of my body and not what the world demands of us. We don't have to go at 100 at all times. We aren't designed that way.
Time for change! Ask yourself what are some things you can do to bring balance to your life. What challenges do you want to conquer this fall? Decide and then go for it.
Bellydance
December 5th: I will be performing for Pandora's Box Salon in their "Around the World in 80 Minutes" show. For tickets and information please go to www.pandorasboxsalon.com or call 289-221-0229
Some Dance Inspiration
This is one of my favorite dancers Autumn Ward. I absolutely love this piece! Bellydance as a Panda Bear would do it...Curious?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucgKk-JnlaY
Work Your Wiggle!
Ilona
My whole exercise routine usually gets an overhaul at this time of year. I pitch the exercises my body has gotten used to over the summer and replace it with exercises that challenge me. My new program is very heavy on weight training that has me progressively lifting heavier over 12 weeks. It is also very light on cardio which is a change for me. I'm so used to running 5x a week that it has actually been a struggle for me to dump a couple of cardio sessions. I do realize it will be beneficial to my energy levels in the end but I've been very comfortable being a cardio queen for a long time. Working towards balance (even in your workouts) isn't always easy. It involves trust and a willingness to change.
Sometimes just a small change can make a difference in balancing your life. One of the best desicions I've ever made was to tailor my lifestyle to my body's natural rhythm or menstrual cycle. When I'm entering a lunar cycle I allow myself to take naps when needed and increase my food intake without guilt. I will splurge on things that make me feel beautiful. I strive to do more creative things during this period and often am able to without creativity blocks. During my solar cycle I do more logical tasks and the grunt work that comes with creative ideas. I also tend to increase the intensity of my activities as my energy levels are usually soaring during this period. Life seems so much easier when I go with the flow of my body and not what the world demands of us. We don't have to go at 100 at all times. We aren't designed that way.
Time for change! Ask yourself what are some things you can do to bring balance to your life. What challenges do you want to conquer this fall? Decide and then go for it.
Bellydance
December 5th: I will be performing for Pandora's Box Salon in their "Around the World in 80 Minutes" show. For tickets and information please go to www.pandorasboxsalon.com or call 289-221-0229
Some Dance Inspiration
This is one of my favorite dancers Autumn Ward. I absolutely love this piece! Bellydance as a Panda Bear would do it...Curious?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucgKk-JnlaY
Work Your Wiggle!
Ilona
Introductions From Sept 19 2010
Welcome to my blog!
Here you will find updates on bellydance shows and classes, fitness and nutrition tips and random rants and nonsense that my husband doesn't care to listen to during football season.
I am also using this blog to help myself become more organized with my thoughts. Creativity takes over logic most days for me. There is something about writing things down that increases my motivation to get creative ideas into action. Please don't expect proper grammer here, however I do know the difference between they're, their and there if it really matters about such things. I often muss up my sentences in conversation so I don't expect it to be any different here and I don't have an editor or an edit button on myself (I've looked)
Bellydance
Let me tell you a bit about myself by answering the questions I most often get from students...
"How did you get into bellydance?"
I was young, bored and needed a hobby. Jogging just wasn't cutting it as I couln't run all day. I had been watching a rerun of Three's Company . It was the episode when Larry (professional creeper) convinced everyone to go to lunch at a greek restaurant so he could gawk at the bellydancer. I remember being much more interested in the dancer's performance than in Jack and Larry's antics and decided that should be my new hobby. I went to the library, got out a couple of really old, worn bellydance books written in the 1970's and did my best to decipher their instructions without any visual help. I must have looked pretty interesting. I soon found local classes and experience working as a dancer in restaurants, weddings and on stage. Dancing is still my favorite thing to do.
Inspiration: Check out the author of one of the original library books I mentioned teaching a 9/8 rhythm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB76_4rSDS8
Fitness
Other than dancing, one of my other passions is health and fitness. It always surprises me when people have no concept on how their body works but knows every function their fancy phone can do. I sometimes get into shouting matches with the audience from the Dr. Oz show when he dedicates an entire segment to the importance of whole foods and exercise and they get his game show questions wrong. I mean "duh?" Shouldn't this be common knowledge? (*side note: I do realize the tv doesn't shout back).
Fitness Tip #1 Learn about your body! Every Friday I go to the library and take out at least a couple Fitness/Health related books. It's free. No excuse.
Fitness Tip #2 Read the book! Even if you just skim through it. Don't just leave it on the coffee table under a pile of mail.
Work Your Wiggle,
Ilona :)
Here you will find updates on bellydance shows and classes, fitness and nutrition tips and random rants and nonsense that my husband doesn't care to listen to during football season.
I am also using this blog to help myself become more organized with my thoughts. Creativity takes over logic most days for me. There is something about writing things down that increases my motivation to get creative ideas into action. Please don't expect proper grammer here, however I do know the difference between they're, their and there if it really matters about such things. I often muss up my sentences in conversation so I don't expect it to be any different here and I don't have an editor or an edit button on myself (I've looked)
Bellydance
Let me tell you a bit about myself by answering the questions I most often get from students...
"How did you get into bellydance?"
I was young, bored and needed a hobby. Jogging just wasn't cutting it as I couln't run all day. I had been watching a rerun of Three's Company . It was the episode when Larry (professional creeper) convinced everyone to go to lunch at a greek restaurant so he could gawk at the bellydancer. I remember being much more interested in the dancer's performance than in Jack and Larry's antics and decided that should be my new hobby. I went to the library, got out a couple of really old, worn bellydance books written in the 1970's and did my best to decipher their instructions without any visual help. I must have looked pretty interesting. I soon found local classes and experience working as a dancer in restaurants, weddings and on stage. Dancing is still my favorite thing to do.
Inspiration: Check out the author of one of the original library books I mentioned teaching a 9/8 rhythm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB76_4rSDS8
Fitness
Other than dancing, one of my other passions is health and fitness. It always surprises me when people have no concept on how their body works but knows every function their fancy phone can do. I sometimes get into shouting matches with the audience from the Dr. Oz show when he dedicates an entire segment to the importance of whole foods and exercise and they get his game show questions wrong. I mean "duh?" Shouldn't this be common knowledge? (*side note: I do realize the tv doesn't shout back).
Fitness Tip #1 Learn about your body! Every Friday I go to the library and take out at least a couple Fitness/Health related books. It's free. No excuse.
Fitness Tip #2 Read the book! Even if you just skim through it. Don't just leave it on the coffee table under a pile of mail.
Work Your Wiggle,
Ilona :)
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