💥 I’m teaching a brand spankin’ new online course for you multitalents 🥰 TRIPLE THREAT ARTISTRY for adults at @thepitnyc. We’ll focus on developing your talents, initiating & carrying out projects that thread them together, and presenting your work in a way that makes people notice. For more info, check out my bio link (2nd to last link on linktr.ee/adriannamateo). Class starts in mid-December: scholarships are available and seats are limited. Some free tips below in the meantime... 💜 #Repost @thepitnyc ・・・ #TeacherFeature: Welcome new PIT faculty member @adriannamateo! Adrianna is a solo violinist, singer-songwriter, and actress who's performed solos on Broadway, acted onstage at the Met Opera, and recorded original music with a Grammy-nominated Top 40 artist team. Adrianna's top 3 tips: 1. Approach everything with the curiosity of a beginner. 2. Your taste is excellent. Your skill is trying to catch up with your taste. If you keep going, your skill will get closer to your taste more quickly than you think. 3. Try not to get trapped in your head. Act, take stock of your results, then act again. Join Adrianna for a brand new Triple Threat Artistry class beginning 12/13, and learn to stretch and develop multiple talents while creating powerful work that truly reflects yourself. Learn more & register here: https://bit.ly/35QucXm (at The Peoples Improv Theater) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIRFWYrA5px/?igshid=d3yhgig96ju
We are so proud of our yoga teacher Irene Vanhulsentop at High Tide Yoga This week in our Friday #teacherfeature we introduce you to our amazing team of "Leaders" from all over the world! What's a "Leader"? As you know our organization is basically completely volunteer driven, our "leaders" are the main communicators of each "team". Each team has a specialty- @irenevanh, who serves as Outreach Leader for Accessible Yoga. She's in charge of reaching out to connect teachers and studios with @AccessibleYoga! Irene survived a helicopter crash in 2012. #AccessibleYoga #yoga #adaptyourpractice #AYCNYC #AccesssibleYTT High Tide Yoga Shine Holistic Wellness Florida Yoga North Florida Yoga (at High Tide Yoga)
Living the dream day by day, sharing the love the slacker way, remembering we’re never too old to stop and play! Whether its slacklining in a beautiful park, performing random acts of AcroYoga in tourist spots, or rolling out the yoga mat in an airport, just go for it and do it with a smile.
Brock doesn’t believe in dogma or play by the rules, he believes in doing what makes you happy without compromising the necessities of others and mother earth. From living an adventurous life of hard knocks, to competitive sports and extreme outdoor adventures, he has learned to roll with the punches of life and make the best of any situation. We must live every moment to its fullest, as all we have is one moment to the next. The root of his lifestyle is yoga, which to him is a way of life that guides us to serve others and heal ourselves through unconditional love and devotion.
Brock’s teachings come from his experience in life, teaching only what he knows and what has worked for him. You won’t find butterflies and unicorns floating around in his vocabulary, but instead simple truth, unconditional love, and suggestions on how to listen and love one's self. Remember the only person that can hold you down is yourself, so move forward everyday with a smile creating the positive evolution the world desires.
His goal for others is to show them their true potential, to trust and to love unconditionally. It’s never too late to make a change and do what makes us happy. Whether it is an AcroYoga, Slackro or a Yoga class you take from Brock, be prepared to have an experiential explosion of music, sweat, laughter, stillness, and energy that will open up your heart and mind leaving you overflowing with bliss.
If you are interested in having Brock teach a class or workshop, or host a retreat, please drop him an email at [email protected]
My path to become a YogaSlacker wasn’t as clear cut as most. I met Sam and Jason in 2004, back before YogaSlakers was formed. Sam and I became fast friends and he helped me step out of my comfort zones in big, fun and scary ways that I craved. I climbed my first multi-pitch, learned to kite ski and eventually how to slackline. Back then, the passion from both Sam and Jason was contagious, and their investment of doing things your own way always shined through.
I was on very clear, clean track to become a scientist, even though I was interested in other lines of work – alternative healing in particular. Whenever I spent time with Sam, questions would creep in. They’d ask, Are you sure this is the path you want to pursue?
My friend and I called this “getting Sam Salwei’ed.” It was the period of questioning that always came after spending time with our mutual friend.
I was scared then. I did what I was told. I followed the rules. I used the slackline as a way to be badass, like all the other things I did.
Then I got injured – at just the same time that the first YogaSlacker teacher training happened. Sam convinced me to come anyway. It was a challenging time for me – wanting my body to do more than it could, taming my ego as I watched all the badass people around me. But there was a place for me there, and I was encouraged to use the slackline in my way. It started to become part of my daily physical therapy; it helped me get strong and it helped me focus.
At the same time, my personal life imploded. All those questions pressed down the doors of my psyche until I couldn’t follow the old path anymore. I started pursuing healing – yoga, Ayurveda, intuition – and in the process of building the life I love, my marriage crumbled. So I stepped over the wreckage and started a new life in Seattle.
I realized how sensitive I was – that I was truly a highly sensitive person who had overcompensated for this sensitivity by trying to be tough and perfect. I stopped fighting the sensitivity and instead embraced it. I combined my favorite healing modalities and turned them into a thriving healing practice geared toward highly sensitive people – called Sensitivity Uncensored, the practice includes informative and fun blog posts, workshops, one-on-one intuitive counseling and energy healing, and courses to help highly sensitive people embrace their sensitive superpowers.
Being a YogaSlacker can mean teaching tons of workshops and doing all the festivals. That’s a fun way to be a slacker and so valuable. And, there are other ways. I teach slacklining to small groups, sometimes. I keep it as a tool for myself. Above all, being a YogaSlacker, steeped in that awesome community, has given me permission - that magical ingredient that allowed it to be okay to pursue life my own way. I’m forever grateful for the YogaSlacker community for giving me this.
Interested in my work? Check out SensitivityUncensored.com. Sign up for my weekly Sensitive Missive to learn more about sensitivity and upcoming courses.
Mrs. Antrim is a dedicated Scout through and through. Graduating from LFHS in 1975 and then coming back to teach in the Art department, Mrs. Antrim has worked at the school longer than any other teacher and because of it has been able to experience the longest evolution of the student body, classes and school events.
Never one to take a breath, Mrs. Antrim has worked her way up from student to to teaching classes ranging from Art and Telecom to Applied Technology and Business. While she has also been a coach for cross country, and headed the yearbook club (both in her high school years and as a teacher), Mrs. Antrim now resides as the Art & Music Department Chair. Saying her biggest motivation to stay at the school is the students, a lot has changed since she was in their shoes.
Mrs. Antrim’s freshman class was the first to attend the school’s West Campus and when asked how school spirit has changed, she replied, remembering Homecoming weekend, “...we had a huge bonfire Friday night, with a parade with floats on flatbed trailers through town on Saturday before the game followed by the Homecoming Dance Saturday night...It took several weeks to make the floats in kids garages. We always had the viaduct painted by then too!” Although the tradition of painting the viaduct has been discontinued, and Homecoming doesn’t play out exactly as it used to, school spirit is still a very big part of the Lake Forest and Lake Bluff community.
Besides social events, the curriculum at LFHS has also undergone changes in regards to the Consumer Education classes. By getting rid of vocational courses like Home Economics and Gourmet Cooking, (a class in which the school built a gourmet kitchen for) in exchange for new classes like Business Incubator and Animation shows the influence of new ways of thinking and the use of technology in the classroom.
Arguably the most impactful technology affecting students is the cell phone, which to many teachers is annoying since their students are constantly on their phones; however, Mrs. Antrim sees the device as an advantage in class when used appropriately. When asked if these kinds of generational innovations and ideas influence students’ artwork, Mrs. Antrim is quick to shake her head no by explaining how, “Today there are more courses to choose from, yet students still have to find their own passion in whatever area they choose…”
This passion that the art students find in themselves has, like any other subject, motivated them to focus on a certain area of the subject like graphic design, drawing or photography. Because of this, Lake Forest’s Art department is ever expanding the types of courses they offer because it is “demand driven” by the students, and therefore, Mrs. Antrim concludes, “Art is the area of the school where students can forget about the pressures of the academics...and let their minds relax and move in a creative direction!”
It's Director Day! And we're kicking it off with Victor Kulinski of @rptpercussion Come out to University HS in Orange City today at 4 to watch their 2015 preview! DOA will be there and so should you! #rptpercussion #wgi #drumline #viclick #TeacherFeature #FavoriteTeacher
