Strike a pose and breeethe

Apparently asking a yoga teacher what their favorite yoga pose is is like asking this writer what her favorite color is, “What do you mean a favorite color? Just one? For a dress? A car? A wall? “What do you mean a favorite pose?” was the immediate puzzled response to this question, followed very quickly by a stock answer, “Whatever pose I’m in at the moment.” Mind you, like me and colors, these tutors of flexibility and wholeness were not being difficult; it just seemed like an odd question to them. …

Salsa Sin Fronteras (Salsa Without Borders)

When you Google “Salsa” on the Internet, websites relating to both food and dance pop up. Salsa describes the modern Latin music and dance styles as soulful, full-flavored, and spicy. It is a commercial blanket term that classifies the union of most Cuban rhythms (i.e. cha cha cha, mambo, guaguanco, son montuno) with jazz arrangements, giving the music mass popular appeal and a catchy title for fans to remember. Each Cuban rhythm within Salsa music has …

Fire on the Dance Floor
Get intimate with Argentine tango with dancer Karen Jaffe

Argentine tango for me is a vehicle in which to express my passion for being alive. Three minutes connected with another human being; so quiet inside myself, listening with my entire being. I can feel that other person breathing. What will come next? Will it be a sharp quick movement, or long, smooth, drawn-out steps? Maybe it will be no movement at all. Ultimately our energies …

Green Home Showcase

Masonry Efficient on Kimberly Knoll

“I’ve always wanted a house that combined the needs and living patterns of a modern family with the efficiencies of new building materials,” says Dr. Bill Chapman, a pathologist at the VA Hospital in Asheville, NC. “Knowing the limits of energy production, I wanted a structure that would use either solar or geothermal sources of energy in a radiant floor heating system. …

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