​Dates Reminder (please scroll down to read the follow ups!)​

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Current:

Summer 1st Series 6/9, 6/16, 6/23, 6/30, 7/7, 7/14 (6 sessions)

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Upcoming:

Summer 2nd Series 7/21, 7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18, 8/25 (6 sessions)

 

Previous:

Summer 2nd Series: 8/05, 8/12, 8/19 

Summer 1st Series 6/17, 6/24, 7/01, 7/08, 7/15, 7/22

Winter/Spring 3rd Series 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

Winter/Spring 2nd Series 3/11, 3/25, 4/1, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29

Winter/Spring 1st Series 1/8, 1/22, 2/5, 2/12, 2/26, 3/4 ​

Fall 1st Series: 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 10/7, 10/21, 10/28 (6 sessions, back at the Lodge!)

Fall 2nd Series: 11/4, 11/18, 12/2, 12/9 (4 sessions at the Lodge)

Winter/ Spring 1st Series 1/13, 1/27, 2/10, 2/24, 3/3, 3/10 (6 sessions)

Spring 2nd Series 3/24, 3/31, 4/07, 4/21, 4/28, 5/05, 5/12 (7 sessions)

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​​Follow Ups

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Summer 2025

 

Summer 1st Series

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Session 1

Date: 6/09/2025

• Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

•  Read quote by T.K.V. Desikachar About Resting

• Read quote by Eckart Tolle. "To know yourself..

• Bachata Beginner Basic Steps Tutorial - Demetrio & Nicole - Bachata Dance Academy

• ​Salsa​ Basic Steps with my amazing teacher Natalee Garay

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Session 2

Date: 6/16/2025

• Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

• Read "About Standing (In Kinship)", by Kimbery Blaeser

• Find the links to basic bachata & basic salsa above​

• If you have your foot work and want to incorporate hips and arms movements, here's a cute video I just found: Salsa 💃🏻 Learn How To Move Your Arms and Hips Correctly and 'wait for the bus gracefully!

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​Session 3

Date: 6/23/2026

• Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

• Read "Optimism", by Jane Hirshfield

• Read "About Resting", by T.K.V. Desikachar

• I mentioned my favorite actor these days, Hyun Bin

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Session 4

Date: 6/30/2025

• Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

• Read again "Lost", by David Wagoner

• Chant that Deepa and I chanted at the end: Om Asato Ma Sadgamaya -check it out In sanskrit with meaning

• Practice with Shoulder Shimmy tutorial

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Session 5

Date: 7/7/2025

• Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

• Read "Optimism", by Jane Hirshfield

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Spring 2025

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Spring 2nd Series

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Session 1

Date 3/24/25

• Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

• Read "The 3 Pillars of Happiness", by Yung Pueblo

• Read "Ode To The Artichoke", by Pablo Neruda​

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Session 2

Date: 3/31/2025

• Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

• Read "The 3 Pillars of Happiness", by Yung Pueblo​

• Homework: write something that you LOVE about yourself!

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​Session 3

Date: 4/07/2025

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Read Quotes by Jack Kornfield (I read the second one)

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Session 4

Date: 4/21/2025

• Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

• Additional Notes of our focus this week

• Read quote by Eckart Tolle

• Short practice for hands/wrists/shoulders YouTube Video

• Short Practice with Finger Nyasa & Om Shanti Om YouTube Video

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Session 5

Date: 4/28/2025

• Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

• Read "Autobiography in 5 Chapters", by Portia Nelson

• Read "When I Am Among The Trees", by Mary Oliver

• Here are a couple videos on YouTube with the turns we did today: Bachata Basic Turn (Solo Practice) - Bachata Turns for Beginners/ HOW TO TURN IN BACHATA | Beginner Bachata Tutorial (with more breakdown)

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Session 6

Date: 5/5/2025

• Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

• Read again "When I Am Among The Trees", by Mary Oliver

• Bachata song today: "La Demanda", by Romeo Santos, Raulin Rodriguez - La Demanda (Official Video)

• Salsa songs today:  Bongo by Calambuco  and EL GRAN COMBO DE PUERTO RICO - Sin Salsa No Hay Paraiso

• If you have Spotify (the one where you pay for it, not the free one) you can access my playlists, because they're "public": "Belmont Salsa Class" is a selection of the songs that my salsa teachers have shared with me. and some of my favorite bachata is the playlist "Bachata"

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Session 7

Date: 5/12/2025

• Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

• Read again "When I Am Among The Trees", by Mary Oliver

• Better Balance 15' practice Access Video (you can download it if you'd like)

• For music check the links of Session 6 above

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​Winter/Spring 2025

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Winter/Spring 1st Series

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Session 1

Date: 1/13/2025

• Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

• Poem: "Beannacht", by John O'Donohue

• Dance shoes: I buy my dance shoes at the store "Dance Theater Shop"

• https://www.dancetheatreshop.com/

• I like this little Bachata tutorial, it has some of the steps we do, and one that we haven't done!:

• Bachata Beginner Basic Steps Tutorial - Demetrio & Nicole - Bachata Dance Academy​

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Session 2

Date: 1/27/2025

• What you practiced in stick figures Downloadable PDF

• Your Homework in stick figures Downloadable PDF

• Read poem "A Cushion For Your Head", by Hafiz

• Watch video on YouTube "Finger Nyasa with Om Santi Om (the light was not great, be patient with me, it's my first one!)

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Session 3

Date: 2/10/2025

• Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

• Read poem "The Idiot's Warehouse", by Hafiz

• HOW TO SHIMMY for Salsa Dancing | Breakdown, Shoulder Isolations and 1 Minute Drill

 

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Session 4

Date: 2/24/2025

• Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

• HOW TO SHIMMY for Salsa Dancing | Breakdown, Shoulder Isolations and 1 Minute Drill

• The next video may be uncomfortable for some people, please only watch it if you are sure you want to see part of a cadaver dissection:

• Deep Front Line of Fascia - Cadaver Dissection by Tom Myers

• Read poem "The Sacred Dance For Life", by Hafiz

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Session 5​

Date: 3/3/2025

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Read poem "When I Am Among The Trees", by Mary Oliver

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Session 6

Date: 3/10/2025

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Read quotes here. (From book "Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole", by Susan Cain)

Watch video Short sequence for wrists and hands, on my YouTube

Want to see, download to keep or share the flyer? click here flyer PDF

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​Fall 2024

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Fall 2024 2nd Series

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Session 1

Date: 11/4/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Read "There Is Another View", by Rumi​

Watch Youtube Video "Dance, Hormones and Thinking: Peter Lovatt at TEDxYouth@Manchester 2012"​

Watch YOLANDA Line Dance  with IRA WEISBURD 

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Session 2

Date: 11/18/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF 

Read "Beannacht", by John O'Donohue

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Session 3

Date: 12/2/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Read poem "For the Traveler"

Watch again:

Our "Hands Jive" Watch Youtube Video "Dance, Hormones and Thinking: Peter Lovatt at TEDxYouth@Manchester 2012"​

Our choreography (cumbia) Watch YOLANDA Line Dance  with IRA WEISBURD 

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Session 4

Date: 12/9/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Read poem "The Peace of Wild Things", by Wendell Berry

Happy Holidays and see you back on January 13th!

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Fall 2024 1st Series

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Session 1

Date: 9/9/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Read quotes about gratitude 

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Session 2

Date: 9/16/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Read poem "Praying", by Mary Oliver

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Session 3

Date: 9/23/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Read poem "You suppose...", by Rumi

Words on the white board:​

Relationship

Buzzing

Me-time

Disturbance

Listen

Equanimity

Seize the day

Carpe diem

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Session 4

Date: 10/7/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Read poem "Love does That", by Meister Eckhart

Check the video of the choreography that we have been doing and practice before we meet next time!​​

LAMENTO BACHATA Line Dance

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Session 5

Date: 10/21/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Read poem "Smart Cookie", by Richard Schiffman

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Session 5

Date: 10/28/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Read poem "The Peace of Wild Things", by Wendell Berry

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Summer 2024

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Summer 2024 2nd Series

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Session 1

Date: 8/5/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Quote: 

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

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Session 2

Date 8/12/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

"Lamento Bachata" Line Dance on YouTube, choreography by Helma Nur. Video by Ira Weisburd (Ira divides the turn in one quarter, one quarter and one quarter: total of three quarters)

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Session 3

Date 8/19/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

"Lamento Bachata" Line Dance on YouTube, choreography by Helma Nur. Video by Ira Weisburd (Ira divides the turn in one quarter, one quarter and one quarter: total of three quarters, we did it today turning one full turn)

Quote:

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”― Albert Einstein

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Summer 2024 1st Series

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Session 1

Date: 6/17/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Read poem "There Is Another View", by Rumi

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Session 2

Date: 6/24/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Reading from the book "Book Of Awakening", by Mark Nepo, p. 201

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Session 3

Date: 7/01/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Read poem "In My Travels", by Mirabai

About Mirabai in Wikipedia

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Session 4

Date: 7/8/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

My account on Spotify is susanalabordeblaj and it's public. anyone with Spotify can see its playlists and also download them.

Music that I used for relaxation was "Temple of Silence", from the album "Garden of the Gods", by Deuter

Playlists for our class are TwinPine1, TwinPines2 & TwinPines3

 

Session 5

​Date: 7/15/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

I read parts of the poem-blessing "For Solitude", by John O'Donohue​

The music I played at the end of class was the Playlist "Relaxing Indian Flute Music" that is on my Spotify.

Sankalpa: a concept from yoga philosophy that means "declaration of commitment".

I suggested today to choose one thing that you like from all the things that we practice together, and do it every day (or a few days) until we meet again next week.

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Session 6

Date: 7/22/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

I read parts of the poem-blessing "For Solitude", by John O'Donohue​

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​Winter/Spring 2024

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Winter/Spring 3rd Series

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Session 1

Date: 5/6/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Read text "Learning how to float", by Mark Nepo. From The Book of Awakening

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Session 2

Date: 5/13/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Read poem "The Sacred Dance For Life", by Hafiz

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Session 3

Date: 5/20/2024

Your practice in stick figures Downloadable PDF

Read poem "The Sacred Dance For Life", by Hafiz

Read more poems & quotes on My Blog

Closing chant: "Asato Ma" Word document, with translation