svētdiena, 2011. gada 20. februāris

Sabbath 3,4

The third meeting was outstanding! We had yoga, 2 different home-made cakes to eat (to balance the benefit of yoga), sketching lessons, and, for the first time a decent prose reading/ storytelling.


Yesterdays meeting was also great. Sensei San cooked a very tasty and healthy dahl following THIS reciepe. We ate it after Aikido warm-up exercizes (with influence of callanetics (thanks to irra))
Afterwards we had a alternative non-academic picasso-like sketching lesson by the famous master of glitter and flitter. The most interesting thing is, that some of us haven't been doing the drawing thing at all, but now, when they try, it appears that some hidden talents are revealed. 
(Soon you'lll see in da pictures 4 yourself)

 The oldest roots of shmotique make their presence felt by the fact, that in the end of every sabbath we can't resist the urge to do the good old clothes-swapping thing. Maija said, that next time she will bring some garments from Marocco!

Aaaarrgh  .... All this sounds like some kind of account, compairing to what it really is.
Whatever 

svētdiena, 2011. gada 6. februāris

Beginners luck.

The first two Sabbaths proceeded in a small, but passionate and warm company.  
Each time we had a short yoga class and a chess championship for absolute beginners
See for yourself HERE.
Read more THERE.

ceturtdiena, 2011. gada 3. februāris

The wind of changes ("zu sein" VS "zu haben")

Hello!
Due to the change of economical and spiritual vibrations, shmotique team has changed the character of actions. Our costumes and acessories, have joined (and hopefully will continue to do so) MagpiesShop collection.

Interested about what are we doing now?
For most of us the period when the long hours of sitting
in Café with a single cooling of a cup of coffee in the hands was possible, has passed. Theater, cinema, exhibitions ... All of these, often lonely and mostly purchasable things are  uncommon treat and the expectations are rarely met.
In the struggle to survive we tend
to forget
the value of real human relationship and reserve our creativity for something that potentially could be exchanged
for food.
In these times it is vital to play more
. To dream
and build
castles of air.

What could be better and more awakening, than a good conversation?
A real conversation is elusive and volatile. No one knows when it
will appear and when - will disappear.
We can only embellish the room, light the incense and expect it to appear
sometime.
But while we wait, we can see to it that our senses
don’t become blunt  - we can meet and talk to each other about what
we have learned, what we've figured out  and what inspires us.

That is why we gather every sabbath eve. 

Each time under different theme.
Let us not consume culture,
Let  us be culture ourselves!