Pony Weeklies: Past selves + more
Finally it has happened to me
Hey Ponies!
I hope you’re having a good week :) My bestie from growing up together in Portland & long distance Pony, Emma, was visiting for their bday this week and we got to take Malia’s Wednesday morning class together! Whenever I bring a friend to class in LA, they say either a.) “if I lived here, I would go all the time” or b.) “the world would be a better place if more people did Pony Sweat.” I agree wholeheartedly with both statements!!!
Emma was my ride or die for attending concerts as our main activity in middle and high school — Cat Power, Sleater-Kinney, Hot Chip, M.I.A. - so it was full circle to do dance aerobics to Malia’s bangin’ mixtape of Patti Smith, Light Asylum, NIN, and more. We agreed that Pony Sweat fills a deeply-felt desire for dance parties - fuck the moves & bedroom dancing all the way.
Our Wednesday 10:15AM class is also a great one for spreading out and having lots of room to move and explore, fwiw…Monday evening $10 class has been very very full lately! We also have lots of spots in tonight’s 7PM class, for some reason…come dance with me and Jaquita and other Ponies!!!! I always leave feeling more energized, hopeful, and grateful to be alive than I did when I showed up. Every. Single. Time.
Snapshot from our week at the Rock & Roll Camp for Girls in Portland (note the guitar pick earrings), signed Sleater-Kinney poster we waited so long in line at Music Millenium on 23rd for in 2005 and I need to get framed yesterday, 2 lil babies! Huge blessing to be friends for almost 25 years, how damn cool.
We also went to the Lucy Dacus, Katie Gavin, and Jasmine.4.t. concert last night at the Greek which was so beautiful!!! Icons! Amazing crowdwatching and deeply enjoyed the (queer) tweens there with their parents…soooo so sweet. Looking around, I felt extra adjacent to a past/inner child self…another full circle moment!!!! Blessings! And shoutout to Pony Emily N. who passed tickets for tonight’s show along to Michella — she’s taking her nephew, Ace, who is in high school!! So great. Have fun :)
MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE IN PONY WORLD…
We are livestreaming Malia’s class this Saturday 1:45PM PT! Ponies Across Time + Space, please join us! I really love Malia’s May Mixtape, do not miss it. We also recorded her class this week, so that offering will join our video subscription library soon! Yay :)
Jaquita is teaching $10 community class Monday 7PM! Class has been filling all the way up — please sign up early to be guaranteed a spot, and cancel if you can’t come!
Emilia has an exciting book event coming up next week! She says: “I'll be reading about the spellwork of Pony Sweat alongside so many awesome witches!” Tuesday May 20th 7:30PM at Philosophical Research Society in Los Feliz. Book launch with Michelle Tea in conversation with contributors & artists from her latest anthology, WITCH!
Ok, thanks for indulging, Ponies!!! Can’t wait to dance with you soon!
xoxo
Isabel