“Yoga Booty Ballet is a fun, sexy and spirited workout that will leave you feeling refreshed and inspired. Work your body, engage your mind and lighten your spirit as you practice this East-meets-West amalgam of meditation, cardiovascular dance, ballet, Kundalini and hatha yoga.The results are immediate and long term. Students consistently complete class feeling better about themselves than when they arrive.

The meditation element serves to focus busy minds as well as awaken dull ones.  The dance portion improves cardiovascular endurance, promoting weight loss and improved body composition.  The ballet section increases strength and agility, building muscle and bone density. The yoga sections promote flexibility, balance and inner wellness.  Classes are fun and easy to follow, designed to draw out individual self-expression in a comfortable, non-competitive environment.Various dance styles explored include jazz, hip hop, burlesque, Latin, Bollywood, go-go, and more.

Come dance, play, and fall in love with your body!”

Hard as we try to paint with words, there’s still something missing.  It isn’t until you step into Courtney’s class that you feel the full expression of a Yoga Booty Ballet class — the beat of the just-right playlist, the laughs, the stretching, movement, smiles and fun.  So we got an idea: lets take some pictures and record a short video that we can put on YouTube so people can SEE, HEAR AND FEEL Yoga Booty Ballet!

Last weekend, Courtney (pictured below in the green scarf) brought her tremendous flair for music, fun and dance to a special weekend class and the ladies moved through mirror-slaps, flashes, and long, distracting lenses pointed right at them without missing a beat.  I’ll post all of the images and the video when we’re finished editing, but I wanted to share these final two shots with a big :hug: and thank you to all who participated!  :)

As a military family, our children rarely spend Christmas in the same place twice.  So working with that, we try to make family traditions flexible worldwide.  For example, we take them to the Nutcracker each year and recount years passed how many cities across the globe we’ve seen it in during the holidays.  We have tickets for today’s Septime Webre’s The Nutcracker starring George Washington as the heroic Nutcracker and England’s King George III as the villainous Rat King.  I can’t wait.  Our tickets are for the showing at D.C.’s historic Warner Theater.

Only we woke up this morning to all this snow!

So we went sledding instead!

The blizzard continues, D.C. is shut down.  We’re inside now, all warmed up and sipping hot chocolate.  This might be the year we reschedule the Nutcracker for January, which makes 2010 the historic year that we’ll see it twice!

Carlos is heartbroken, stuck indoors on a day the Saints are playing.  :)  (thinking of you, Tommy and Katie!)

And I digress here, but sledding down that tiny treeless hill this morning brought back so many fond memories of recklessly sailing down mountains on Les Schwab tire tubes, dodging evergreens, and the completely insane hooky-bobbing of my youth.  On days like today, I think of all my Oregon friends and smile.  :)  Miss you guys!

But all sisters share some traits, and Sarah and Jenny are no exception: beautiful, colorful, talented and a lot of fun to work with.

Very exciting time of life for her. After the shoot, she headed downtown to audition for the Houston Ballet!