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Hello beautiful,​
Gentle January continues with reflection and planning even as the business of executing 2025 projects, the daily actions and events are now well underway. It's been super chilly in Cologne, so any work I can do from my warm haven of a bed I do, emerging for bursts of dancing, teaching, and errands only to retreat again. Soon the festivity of Karneval will be upon us, but for now, laying the groundwork for a successful year.

My final 2024 Annual Reflection and 2025 declarations are still to come, but first to put a pretty bow on all the individual projects of the past year, summarizing my experience creating and participating in my Dance Daily December Challenge:

​Read Dance Daily December Recap - 31 Days of Movement to Change Your Life & 7 ways it did article here​

My other creations, recommendations, and questions for you are:

Viewing:

• ​31 Days of Mindful Movement to Change Your Life - Dance Daily December Compilation - Creative Living video on YouTube is a collection of clips from my explorations on social media (Instagram, TikTok, where I shared my Alphabet Superset Micro Choreo Videos, and Facebook) with various pieces of music available there, this edit set to a different piece from YouTube, synchronistically named "Wolf Moon," resulting in a multi-music experiment!
• ​How exercise rewires your brain and mental health from Dr. Tracey Marks

Listening:

• ​Balletlicious Barre+ Dance is my current ballet and movement class soundtrack
• Somehow Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" has become my current ear worm and dancing inspiration

Reading:

• Still working on Evocation: Book I in The Summoner's Circle by S.T. Gibson, but too slowly, have to return the ebook and place a hold to finish it in the future, meanwhile starting in on
• ​Funny Story by Emily Henry, a highly-recommended book from last year that just became available and I'm pretty sure I'll read at a good clip

Practicing:

• ​Wolf Moon in Cancer yoga with RebEarth (25 min) was a delightful way to celebrate this special full moon and open up the throat Chakra and healthy communication, which I needed in stressful situations of conflict during the week!
• Curious how the Moon cycles fall in 2025 and what the Full Moons are called? Refer to the Full Moon Calender ​
• For other witchy holidays, consult the 2025 Wheel of the Year ​
• Put those and other important dates where you can find them, Set up your planner by the end of this video and get rolling with Rachelle in Theory
• ​Vision your life with yoga workshop from Susanna Barkataki

Practicing Together LIVE / Adult Movement Classes this week:

• In-Studio Adult Beginner Ballet, 6-7:00pm CET Mondays, Tanzschule Tanzraum Nippes, Cologne, Germany creates a strong, body-friendly, and graceful foundation for dance (German)
• Online Yogalicious Gentle Yoga. 7-8:00pm CET Tuesdays (8-9:00am HI) provides a delicious mindful movement feast which balances strength, balance and coordination for mind, body, and spirit adaptable to all levels and conditions (English)
• Online Balletlicious Gentle Adaptive Ballet Barre+, 7:30-8:30am CET Wednesdays, consists of mostly barre with a little dancey centre work, building a strong, body-friendly, and graceful foundation for dance at home or anywhere in the world (English)

Inquiring:

• Which inputs and media are inspiring you right now?
• What is your favorite dance style or technique?
• Which type of dance or movement haven't you tried yet that you'd like to sample?
• How could a mindful movement or creative dance enhance your life?
• What do you dream of creating?

Gladly share your response to the questions above or provide other updates by replying to this email or on social media if you are active there.

Happy belated Martin Luther King Jr. Day to my American beloveds, and have a great weekend.

I appreciate your presence in my life and would love to see you in a mindful movement class, coaching session, collaboration or other context soon!

Love, Blythe

Blythe Stephens, MFA, Bliss Catalyst
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