Marja Yoga

Special thanks to dancer, choreographer, and deeply impactful, thoughtful, and insightful community leader, Jess Cummings, for inviting Galit Friedlander and YOGA FOR DANCERS to collaborate and teach Recovery and Injury Prevention for the Connect & Create dance program. Dancer health, wellness, and career longevity are the 808 base that beats both Galit and my heart, so getting to support dancers in mind, body, hair flip, and heart is the deepest honor. _____________________..._____________________________________________ Posted @withregram @connect.create.program I am so excited to announce two amazing guests for this semester of Connect & Create: @gogalit and @marjayoga ! Galit and Marja will be discussing dancer recovery and injury prevention. Keep reading to know a little more about Galit and Marja’s amazing accomplishments and vast knowledge in the area. As dancers our bodies are our most valuable possessions, join the @connect.create.program with special guests Galit Friedlander and Marja Lankinen to find out how we can treat them as such ! Galit Friedlander is a certified personal trainer and dance teacher. With 20 years in the dance world, she has spent years studying and bringing cross training and body care education to dancers in order to enhance their career longevity and artistry. Galit's most current dance work includes her position as a head choreographer for the WNBA LA Sparks with past credits including Prince and Pharell. She continues to enjoy nearly half a decade as the creator and host of the DanceSpeak podcast and aims to empower others around their journeys in dance. For more information please visit: http://www.GoGalit.com and follow @gogalit @dancespeakpodcast on Instagram. A former professional dancer, Marja Lankinen is the founder of Yoga for Dancers and teaches therapeutic yoga and meditation in Los Angeles and around the world. She is a staff writer at LA YOGA Magazine and is concurrently working toward a doctoral program in physical therapy and a Master’s in English at Harvard University. For more information, please visit www.marjayoga.com and follow @marjayoga on Instagram and Facebook.

Data doesn’t move the heart. Stories do. On May 24th, 2020, The New York Times published a front page article listing the names, ages, and cities of some of the 100,000 people who have died due to COVID-19. The list was both sobering and not even close to being exhaustive. Today, on August 28th, 2020, the statistic has risen to 181,000 deaths in the U.S. alone. Could any of those deaths have been prevented? Can we decrease the rate of future loss through policy, procedure, a...nd personal behavior? In the era of corona, these questions grapple with how we define the heart of our humanity, and I believe the answers we choose will become the precursors to our global future. Thus, if statistics don’t speak but stories do, then please read the accounts of two nurses and one son who shared their personal and profoundly intimate experiences with COVID-19. There are real names and real families behind these statistics, so please listen to what they have to say, heed their requests to wear a mask and keep six feet of distance, and do what you can to help your friends, neighbors, coworkers, baristas, bus drivers, school teachers, and strangers you pass on the street stay safe. We are in this (albeit virtually and metaphorically) together. LA YOGA Magazine article link: https://layoga.com//c/love-and-loss-in-the-time-of-corona/ Magazine: LA YOGA Magazine Editor: Felicia Marie Tomasko Interviewed: Kristen Perez (@krisp_k), Jennifer Terry (Jennipurr Atari, @jenn_rn6), and Nelson George (@315nelsongeorge) Staff Writer: Marja Lankinen (@marjayoga, @yogafordancers) #layogamagazine #newyorktimes #covid19 #vote2020

It is an incredible honor to partner YOGA FOR DANCERS with LA-based and internationally renowned dancer, choreographer, and artistic director, Alek Palinski. Subscribe to Alek’s Patreon for dance tutorials, insider screenings and dance project premieres, poetry, and personalized content for members. You can subscribe for all, part, or - if you simply wish to dust off your contemplative practice - $5 for monthly yoga and weekly meditation with your resident hair flip. ... To learn more, check out Alek’s IG Live this Monday, August 24th at 10am PST! Patreon: Alek Paliski Contributor: @yogafordancers #alekpalinskichoreography #yogafordancers #yoga #meditation #losangeles #dancelife

YOGA FOR DANCERS has an incredible amount of free time in the next three weeks. Hence why there are three new yoga/meditation classes on my YouTube (Marja Lankinen) channel and likely five billion more by Wednesday. *Requests are deeply appreciated. Also, check out www.yogafordancers.com for an updated website, and stay tuned as I read and review the entirety of my 500 book library (I will write you a book report if you ask:). In hair flip gratitude, ... Y4D See more

YOGA FOR DANCERS is honored to offer YouTube yoga and meditation classes during the month of August. If you are interested in learning more, please check out this five minute meditation. Subscribe to my Marja Lankinen YouTube channel for class additions and partnerships to come. In gratitude, ... Y4D Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFlI5MIWWyg

YOGA FOR DANCERS has a three week hiatus from Harvard. Thus, through the month of August, I will be updating my YouTube channel with dance and yoga videos. If you wish a Yoga for Dancers, Power Yoga, yin/restorative, or meditation class, please DM! Link:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqizWMK41bIMBO0PPZvOHtQ

YOGA FOR DANCERS jams with the happy hamstrings this week: Wednesday, 4/29 7:15am 20th Century Fox (Zoom) 10am Infuse Dance Studio (Zoom)... Friday, 5/1 10am DRLegacy Studios Scholarship Program (Zoom) If you have aches, pains, punny jokes, or memes, send them my way. I am no doctor, but a listening ear, Beyoncé quotes and quotables, and a heart that loves you can be pretty medicinal, too. @yogafordancers #yogafordancers One day this yogi will be a PT. For now, what do you call birds who stick together? ... Vel-crows. Flyer by the fly-est: Movement Lifestyle Dance Studio Photo by: Carbon38 and Alo Yoga

YOGA FOR DANCERS and DJ BLACK RABBIT are here to keep your weekend lit with live music & 10am yoga. Come for a 30 minute all-level power yoga class and leave feeling good in the body, the bones, and in the Beyonce and Bobby Valentino we trust. The soul will be alive and thriving in your living room this Saturday, 4.18.2020, 10am PST BBQ weekend. Suggested donation $10 @Marja-Lankinen (Venmo) or [email protected] (PayPal). Proceeds will go to Harvard and vinyl in no particular order. @yogafordancers @djbackrabbit #yoga #DJ #livenlit This Saturday 10a PST on @marjayoga IG.

YOGA FOR DANCERS could not be more jazzed to collab with DJ BLACK RABBIT (most illmatic DJ from Philly to Los Angeles) this Saturday at 10a for half an hour of yoga and live music. From our living rooms, turntables, and crow poses to yours, we’re keeping your weekend lit, one vibe at a time. For more info or to ask us questions, DJ Black Rabbit and I will be live on both of our channels this Friday at 1pm to test the system, your sound waves, and my Big (and hella bad) Puns.... Follow @djblackrabbit and @marjayoga for all the baddie info. #artists coming together to #innovate #motivate and #coordinate in #corona times. - with Ray Brown III

A flower blooms after the rain. Often requisite in progression to the sweetest joy is knowing the bitter bedfellows of pain. Yet spring comes. The rain ends. We move, we keep spirits moving. This too shall pass, they say. It is true; seasons - like weather, the dirt and mess of muddy boots, heart-heaving sorrow, and searing, exquisite, and all too fleeting symphonies - always do. YOGA FOR DANCERS:... Monday, April 13th 8am PST Hot Power Fusion Friday, April 17th 8am Yoga for Dancers (a therapeutic approach to multi-dimensional health and wellness for all movers, humans, and probability fielding electrons) All classes will be live on @marjayoga IG at 8am PST. Suggested donation: $10 to Marja-Lankinen (Venmo) or [email protected] (PayPal). I look forward to seeing what seeds will grow from this season of so much soul. @yogafordancers #yogafordancers #yoga #losangeles #dancelife

YOGA FOR DANCERS IG classes this week: Monday, April 6 8am PST Hot Power Fusion... Wednesday, April 8 (my day!) 8am PST All Levels Power Yoga Friday, April 10 8am PST Yoga for Dancers (a therapeutic approach to yoga, myofascial release, and mental health and wellness practices) Thank you for coming to class last week, and, if you have requests (regions of focus, poets, or punny jokes), please let me know! Suggested donation $10 to @Marja-Lankinen (Venmo) or [email protected] (PayPal). @yogafordancers #yogafordancers is about to DAY @beyonce all week. :)

YOGA FOR DANCERS is launching IG classes all this week! Come one and Beyonce all as we ring in a new and beautiful spring season of Aries strength and grace. Wednesday, April 1st 8am PST All Levels Power Yoga... Thursday, April 2nd 8am PST Hot Power Fusion Friday, April 3rd 8am PST Yoga for Dancers stretch, mobility, and recovery All 55 minute classes will be held on @marjayoga IG. Suggested donation $10 to Venmo @Marja-Lankinen (all proceeds will go toward my Harvard tuition). For more info, Beyonce memes, or conversations on quantum mechanics and thermodynamics, DM!

We must teach our eyes to see, our ears to hear. Whilst in a season of challenge, rinse, repeat, I am learning to see symphony inside the chaos, the silence inside cacophony. It is a practice in which I so often stumble; it is a worthwhile sojourn all the same. Yoga helps. YOGA FOR DANCERS... Monday, 2/24 7:30am Paramount Studios Tuesday, 2/25 12:30pm ABC Wednesday, 2/26 7:15am 20th Century Fox Friday, 2/28 6:30am NBC Universal 10:15am Debbie Reynolds Dance Studios DRLegacy Studios @drscholarshipprogram 11:55am Disney Homeboys founder, Greg Boyle, once remarked, be in awe of the things people carry without judging how they carry them. We try, we fail, we rinse, we repeat. In trying just one more time, we succeed.

An honor & a privilege. GTLFTD LA. February 22nd. The Base DTLA. The best day of the Grand Canonical year. Host and Founder: Haley Stone GETLIFTEDevent.com... Teachers: GROOV3 Benjamin Allen, Sugarfoot Therapy Katie Schaar, YOGA FOR DANCERS @marjayoga Beyoncé, per obvious, always. For more info, visit getliftedevent.com.