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Friday, August 5, 2016
Wanderlust Yoga and Music Festival - Yogapants.org
An article I wrote for Yogapants.org:
Wanderlust Music and Yoga Festivals
If you’re a yogi, you have probably heard
of Wanderlust. The worldwide yoga community that offers the largest yoga and
music festivals across the globe. What started as a yoga festival in California
in 2009, now has 25+ festivals that feature workshops, live music, yoga
classes, inspirational speakers, food, wine and all things yoga. Founders
Velour Music Group, C3 Presents and Star Hill presents, have created a unique
yoga experience in their festivals and events around the world, all centered on
its core mission:
“creating community around mindful
living”.
These multi-day
festivals, usually spanning over a weekend, promote mindful lifestyles,
eco-friendly living and ethical manufacturing. Wanderlust isn’t just about yoga
and healthy ideals, it’s about meeting fellow yogis and dancing until the late
night hours to awesome live music.
Their goal is to
bring the feeling of a yoga studio to the great outdoors and to share that
feeling with like-minded people who just want to mingle and learn about health,
yoga and wellness.
Next weekend
(July 28- August 1, 2016), the Wanderlust Festival is being held at Whistler
Mountain in British Columbia, Canada. This five-day event will include: Yoga
classes taught by world renowned teachers like Shiva Rea, Kathryn Budig, Jonny
Kest, Eoin Finn, and Noah Maze. The Whistler Outdoor Concert Series lineup
features, Jose Gonzales, Steel Pulse, Rising Appalachia and a variety of
talented DJs to keep those yoga bodies moving and flowing. When it’s time for a
break from yoga and dancing, participants will be lead into centering and
relaxing meditation classes from talented teachers including Shaki Sunfire,
Rameen Peyrow, Mike Nichols and many more.
Of
course, it wouldn’t be Wanderlust without a focus on lifestyle education and
the Whistler Festival will feature special talks on ways to build a successful
yoga business, a “Feng Shui First Aid Kit” and the Speakeasy series, which
focuses on the laws of attraction. All these activities are being held on
beautiful Whistler Mountain which provides adventure activities for the outdoor
enthusiast like hiking, kayaking, river rafting, mountain biking, SUP,
acroyoga, aerial yoga, hula hooping and slacklining. There are also a wide
variety of organic local food and wine, and clothing vendors that all promote
healthy living and sustainability. All this for yoga, outdoor and music lovers
to unite and share their positive energy!
Tickets
for the Whistler Festival can be found at http://wanderlust.com/festivals/whistler/ - the prices range from $495.00 for the
four-day weekend experience -$105.00 for single day passes. Next to the venue,
there are multiple options for reserving hotel accommodations and camp sites
for the 4-day retreat.
Sounds pretty awesome but can’t make
it to Whistler? Check out the rest of the Fall Festival Schedule:
August 11-14, 2016 – Wanderlust Mont
Tremblant, Quebec, CA
October 20-23, 2016 – Wanderlust Sunshine
Coast, Queensland, Australia
If you can’t get
out to a full weekend retreat don’t worry, Wanderlust had got you covered and
announced its Fall Tour Dates for the “Wanderlust 108” which is their take on a
single day triathlon but themed with the core mission: “creating community
around mindful living”. This event includes a 5K Run (or walk), outdoor Yoga
and guided Meditation, to allow for a full mind-body connection and immersion
into the Wanderlust experience. Since 2015’s inaugural series was so popular,
Wanderlust has added even more dates to this year’s schedule:
August 21, 2016 – Berlin, Germany
August
27, 2016 – Fort Collins, CO @ Spring Canyon Community Park
August
28, 2016 – Munich, Germany
September
10, 2016 – Perth, Washington @ The Esplanade
September 11, 2016 – Brooklyn, NY @
Prospect Park
September 11, 2016 – Cologne,
Germany
September 25, 2016 – Tampa, FL @ The
Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park
October 2, 2016 – Washington, DC @
RFK Stadium
October 8, 2016 – Philadelphia, PA @
The Navy Yard
October 15, 2016 – Monterrey, Mexico
October 16, 2016 – Louisville, KY @
Louisville Waterfront Park
October 22, 2016 – Miami, FL @
Historic Virginia Beach Park
November 5, 2016 – Nashville, TN @
Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park
And those are just the announced
dates, check their website http://wanderlust.com/108s/ for more upcoming TBA U.S. and
international dates. Tickets range from $35-$50 depending on the location and
venue.
The
Wanderlust lifestyle brand also provides a Wanderlust Teacher Training Program which
is a yoga teacher training that is based on their festival experience. The Yoga
Alliance certified 200-hour training which is divided into four 50-hour Modules
spanning over the course of 3-5 months and bringing together seasoned yogis or
aspiring teachers looking to deepen their practice and earn their
certification. The perks of the Wanderlust YTT include, 100 hour pre- and post-
training, 200-hour in person training, customizable program scheduling and
instruction from world recognized, experienced yoga teachers.
There
are still some remaining modules this Fall for their program in Squaw Valley,
CA. The next full program starts in September at the Wanderlust Yoga Studio in
Montreal, Canada. If you can’t make all the modules in one program, they allow
you to combine them with previously taken modules from other locations. Each
module costs $800 and each usually have 3 weekend dates. You can check on the
FAQ’s and fill out an application at http://wanderlust.com/yoga-teacher-training/schedule/
Sounds amazing right? The Wanderlust
Brand embodies everything it means to be a yogi and live a mindful lifestyle.
These celebrations and events host amazing people, food, music and experiences
in beautiful outdoor venues. But don’t just take my word for it that their
events are truly awe-inspiring and get involved yourself! You can visit them on
their website www.Wanderlust.com or connect with them on:
Sunday, June 5, 2016
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Writing Samples 2016
The following samples are for the first quarter of 2016, these will be updated periodically to include more currents works and pieces
Psychological/Sociological/Academic Samples (APA, ASA, MLA)
Psychology:
The visual cliff is an experiment that uses a plexiglass covered table with a checkerboard print underneath, one checkerboard is right beneath the glass and the other is lowered several feet below the glass. The infant is placed on the side with the closer checkerboard pattern, it perceives this to be the actual surface of the table. There is a white edge in between the checkerboards so the infant can perceive a cliff when looking over the white edge and to the lowered part of the table. This experiment is designed to test if crawling infants can perceive the lowered part of the table as a cliff and avoid a steep fall over the perceived edge. It was found that the majority of crawling infants do not readily cross to the deep side. While some crossed over, most did not, proving that infants have preference for the shallow side of the table and avoid the deep side. This exposes the infants ability to perceive depth and their survival instinct to avoid drop-offs, that may lead to a fatal fall. This leads us to assume the correlation between neural development and physical independence. As babies have more experience independently exploring their worlds they strengthen neural connections associated with vision and spatial awareness.
Children can pick up their mother's communication style as early as age 3, which means that for an American child, it is vital to use a variety of communication styles at a young age. This ensures that they will not just be well rounded, but test well academically, which is proven to be correlated with overall life success. In other cultures where standardized testing isn't as vital to their communication, they may emphasize other styles like rhyming/singing, nonverbal communication and gesture language (Demuth, 2015). It is important to remember that communication styles do not denote a lack of intelligence. The tests themselves not being designed for every style of communication are not going to give accurate results to those who are not familiar with testing language. Those with differing communication styles may be just as intelligent within their own culture and simply do not fit into the binary testing categories/styles of the Euro-American nations.
Sociology:
Environmental racism is directly caused by industrial corporations and the government institutions that regulate them. Those who suffer from it continue to be nonwhite minorities, that have low-income, low levels of education and underrepresentation within their local government. These practices I have witnessed first hand through the oil refining plants, toxic landfill systems and hazardous waste facilities that surround the black communities in Houston. Through consumer re-education, industry regulation and restructuring zoning policy we can alleviate some of the damage but most can not be undone.
That the TV series is showing a underrepresentation of the actual population demographics of the U.S. prison system. This is important because the media is trying to hide the racism that is the cause for mass incarceration of African Americans over the last 30 years. By representing the numbers disproportionately the American public is fooled into thinking that prison populations must be made up of similar numbers. This is not true and by the media doing this we are forced to turn a blind eye to the racial disparity of the prison population
Marketing Sample/Copy Editing for Dynamyst Solutions
New Product Launch
Have you always wondered what product we use to make your car look brand new? Or how we are able to keep up the maintenance on such a high volume of cars? For the first time ever, we are releasing our amazing product to you, the car owner and enthusiast! Dynamyst is a polymer based product that takes automotive detailing to the next level. This product is able to effectively clean each part of your car. No more dish-soap and buckets! With Dynamyst you can have a professional detailing solution right at your finger tips.
Want to Learn More?
Dynamyst has been in development for several years and we have finally found the secret formula to work on all vehicles and most surfaces. This all-in-one cleaner can be applied to your car's paint/clear coat, wheels and tires, chrome accents and glass. But what about the inside? It is hard to keep the interior clean without heavy cleaner odors. Dynamyst is safe to use on the interior of your car and can easily remove stains from seats, carpets, and trim without leaving a lingering cleaner smell. Dynamyst will truly revolutionize they way you clean your car with time saving results you can see!
We have designed a special eco-friendly package to deliver this amazing product to you, affordably and waste free. For the first time ever in car cleaning products, we are using a collapsable bottle which contains the perfect amount of Dynamyst solution. All you have to do is add water! We have designed the size of the bottle and perfected amount of the solution to ensure a perfect cleaner once our collapsable container is filled with H2O.
Marketing/Investor Plan
This special formula designed for the professional detailer, represents the culmination of many years toiling and refining an effective chemical product into its penultimate phase of existence. In the over-saturated chemical cleaner market, starting controversy with an innovative product, can pose unique and interesting challenges that we are ready for. Upon release of our unique packaging design combined with a highly effective polymer solution, we strive to create that controversy which will disrupt normalcy in a market that could use a change in awareness and ingenuity.
Fiction
She finally got to my place around 11:15 and barged through the door in the skimpiest hot pink terri cloth dress. Her implants busting out of the top of it and only covered by her bikini, tiny hot pink cloth triangles with string attached. She was tall, thin fake tanned and platinum blonde. By anyone's standards you could say she was beautiful in a stereotypical stripper way. But equally beautiful she was crazy. Meredith was the same age as Q and she didn't trust him at all. I only think she came over half the time to look after me which I didn't mind. I nicknamed her Mama Mere because she was always trying to take care of me more than herself. She had her hair pulled up but a full face of makeup on. She had brought a handle of Tito's and some cranberry juice.
"Heyyyyyyy!!!" she announced into my ear as she gave me a hug. She lifted the bottle above her head. "I stole this from the bar last night!"
"If you had already bought bottle service it doesn't count as stealing." I told her as I took the bottle out of her hands and into the kitchen.
"I didn't buy it" she grinned back at me and I laughed as I got the shot glasses out of the cabinet.
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