NOTAFLOF, NYC Pony, Tori + Tina
For Love... we'll give it a shot
Hi Ponies—
Sending every one of your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies so much love.
Prior to last week, I’d been feeling a little afraid of people! Obviously the presidential election was hellish, but on top of that there were some propositions and elections that really didn’t go the way I had hoped they would here in L.A. and California. I don’t think I totally live in a bubble, but any bubble I was existing in definitely burst. That left me feeling pretty cynical and a little vulnerable around strangers. I bring that up just to share that in the last week I’ve been around a LOT of strangers, and I’ve witnessed masses of them showing up so hard with so much kindness and generosity and fervent care, and it has restored a lot of my hope. Community care is real and it’s happening. I don’t have anything else that I want to report about the fires, at this time. 🖤❤️🩹🖤 I DO want to put a couple links here, including the GFM for Pony Taylor and her family who lost their home. We love you, Taylor!
Help Taylor’s Family After Altadena Fire
Mutual Aid Los Angeles has compiled a master list of resources available for victims of these fires as well as ways you can support them. Check the list for specific donation and volunteer needs!
seagoats
Today, January 15 is my birthday (Capricorn rising, Aquarius Rising, Aquarius Moon for anyone curious.) It’s also Ponies Beth P, J.D. D, and Tim C’s birthday!!! ♑️Pony Seagoat Extravaganza!♑️
Anniversaries are important to me, and on this 42nd anniversary of my vessel I choose to celebrate the care-tools I have accumulated that have greatly improved my experience in said vessel. I’ve learned most of these from other people, so I hope sharing this short-list might help someone: smelling nice smells, taking pictures of flowers, any and all inner-child work, laying on the floor, being with animals, drawing, breathing slowly and saying my own version of the St. Francis prayer, singing and humming, dancing to songs that I love on a very regular basis.
pony sweat offerings
If you are in L.A. and feel like doing some rhythmic movement with a group of people would be helpful (it has been for me), I encourage you to come take class with Jaquita this Thursday and Saturday!! We currently have a NOTAFLOF (No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds) code for anyone affected in any way by the fires. Use the code IMJUSTASTEPAWAY at check-out.
Jaquita's January Mixtape:
Mama Wants to Dance- LION BABE
Heartbeat - The Knife
Erotic City - Isolations
Rhythm Is A Dancer- Snap!
Demirep- Bikini Kill
Gotta Get Thru This - Daniel Bedingfield
Broken Halo - Romy
Pull Up To My Bumper- Grace Jones
Making Plans for Nigel - XTC
Cornflake Girl - Tori Amos
Better Be Good To Me - Tina Turner
Didn’t Cha Know - Erykah Badu
One More Try - George Michael
(Jaq will also teaching this mixtape at the Saturday 1/25 Livestream class!)
To all our Across Time + Space subscribers— we WILL return to our weekly online Exercising + Listening to Records class on Thursday 01/23. I hope to see you there and am sad to miss these 2 weeks. In the meantime, there ARE archived sessions in the library if you want to, if you choose to. I also strongly recommend the Exercising in Our Corporeal Forms vid which is rhythmic body-weight resistance moves, set to a very moody playlist, and rooted in awareness and appreciation of our precious aliveness. This is what a very sweet Pony had to say about that particular vid:
n.y.c. this weekend <3
Michella and I are heading to NYC to bring Pony Sweat to the Museum of Arts and Design for their current Barbie exhibit. There’s a Friday 6 pm “show” and a Saturday 2pm! Would LOVVVVVE to see you NYC and adjacent Ponies if you can make it! Please feel free and encouraged to express any aerobics-freaq-attire that you may feel curious or desirous about. I certainly will be!
Barbie Mixtape:
Listen Up- the Gossip
I'm not perfect- Grace Jones
Slowdive- Siouxsie
I wanna dance with somebody- Whitney Houston
Oh Bondage up Yours- x ray Spex
It's a Sin- Pet Shop Boys
Doll Parts- Hole
Venus as a boy- Björk
Stay Tough and Stay Tender Ponies <3 <3 <3
Hope to see you soon.
Love, emilia