Rather than write it all out here, only to lose it later when I redesign my website (numero uno on my Fall task list), let's just say that change is in the air and I am starting to emerge from my chrysalis, ready to see my own wings.
Stay tuned for an exciting new website, and some exciting new growth at Seedlings.
:-)
I don't have a picture for you.
If I had a picture for you, it would be of me, cruisning down highways in my VW bus, with a basket of henna in the back, a pile of yoga mats, a few wayward (unoccupied) carseats and my broken car radio silent. I am talking to myself, reflecting on times I have had with girlfriends and my husband and my fiesty and exhausting daughters. I am making my living and loving it.
I would be smiling in this picture. I would have faded henna on my right hand and an undetectable carpal tunnel pain in my wrists from all the writing and texting and emailing and painting. From the wiping noses and toasting accomplishments and strumming my old folk guitar that one belonged to my father.
It might not be a pretty picture. I have new wrinkles everyday and laugh lines that betray 36 years of sarcastic guffaws. It would be the closest thing to technology that my summer-of-being-unplugged has seen and I would be embrarrassed that I took the trouble to shoot it, upload it and give it to the Internet.
But it would be the realest of my reality, it would be me.
~mandy
ahroberge@gmail.com
I get asked all the time....where do you teach?
Well, truth be told, I'm a bit of a nomad. Being married with children has sapped me of my ability to commit and settle down, and so I find myself, in my path as a kids' yoga teacher and artist, drifting endlessly from one place to another. And I love every second of it.
So where do I teach? Everywhere! So far this year, I have held several sessions of yoga at local venues, appeared at countless libraries and worked privately with students through the federally funded 21st Century Program. But if you are interested in bringing yoga to your school, group or family, there are several ways to do so.
One is to contact your local library. I have held workshops in dozens of Bay State libraries, and generally those libraries not only have the funds through grants and "friends", but they are always actively looking for new programs to bring to their patrons. Just ask! Give them my website and ask them to have me come for a workshop.
Another great avenue is to sponsor a yoga class for your child's school. Think of it as a gift that you're giving to your child's classroom :-) I also work privately with families in their homes, or with several families at one time; Playgroups, peri-natal gatherings, you name it.
And the final way (and this is something to think about for the 2011-2012 school year) is to put me in touch with your PTO and help me to get an afterschool yoga class going at your school. For a small tuition fee per child, I can come to your school for a 6-week session and make yoga an afterschool activity for dozens of kids! I have had great success with this arrangement over the past couple years and I would welcome the opportunity to meet some new faces :-)
Blessings,
"miss mandy"
:D
