CONSCIOUS CREATING – Performance, Art, Lessons, Coaching
I offer a wide range of types of music lessons ranging from all levels of vocal lessons, beginning to intermediate piano, recorder, percussion, theory, composition, and songwriting. All lessons are uniquely tailored to your needs, goals, and individual learning style. CLICK HERE
THESE 8 AMBITIOUS ECOLOGICAL PROJECTS are Helping to Heal the World
By Brandon Wiggins in Global Citizen
Thriving ecosystems can better support marine and animal life, provide local jobs and food, and reduce carbon emissions. The United Nations considers life on land and life below water to be two of its Global Goals for Sustainable Development. You can join us in taking action on this and related issues here.
ARTS FROM THE HART: Free Online Kids Dance and Acting Classes
Western Carolina University musical theatre majors, Georgia Reichard and Dakota Benfield, will teach FREE dance and acting classes for ages 9 to adults beginning in May. REGISTER HERE
THIMBLE AND SEWSEW Clothing Reincarnated
At Thimble and SewSew, we design zany and comfy new things to wear by reincarnating gently used garments. All of our skirt and scarf designs are mash ups. Even our business cards are made from recycled materials.
SUSTAINABILITY IN SPORT: How Governing Bodies Are Making Their Sports Greener
Across the sporting spectrum, governing bodies are now making a conscious effort to make their sports more eco-friendly. They are seeking to establish green standards among sports clubs, they are using the massive platform of sport to spread the message about sustainability, and they are working alongside technology providers to ensure that sports events no longer damage the environment.
Mental health tips + resources in AVL TODAY
Hi, Asheville. 👋 Brook here. If there’s one topic that’s near and dear to my heart, it’s mental health. When I was growing up, my beloved aunt (also my daughter’s namesake) was the head nurse at Broughton Hospital in nearby Morganton, so the importance of mental health was always highlighted.
EMBODIED MEDITATION PODCASTS with Paige – Calm Stress and Anxiety
Gentle yoga combined with guided relaxations and meditations. These short, portable audio sessions blend breath-centered movement, music, and mindfulness practices to help you sleep, center, ground, release stress, and generally soothe your system.
Please give the first Embodied Meditation—Calming Stress and Anxiety—a listen here. It’s 15 minutes of soothing, grounding movement and guided breathing to help dissolve tension.
What Happens to Your Body When You Stop Eating Meat
By Grant Stoddard in Eat This, Not That!
Whether you like it or not, you can’t change the facts: Our country is about to face a serious meat shortage. Between meat processing plants shutting down and grocery stores limiting the amount of meat you can buy, there’s definitely a strain on an important facet of the food supply chain. Even Wendy’s is limiting the burgers they sell! However, while meat may be in short supply, did you ever think about what would happen to your body if you stop eating meat? CLICK TO CONTINUE
OVERLANDING – 17 Things to do to Reduce Your Impact on the Environment
Sustainable travel is a very important issue these days so we’ve covered this subject from an overlanding perspective. Overlanders usually use large vehicles, with either gas or diesel engines with low mpg’s.
While using hybrids or even electric vehicles for overlanding is still in the distant future (and those type of vehicles may not even be desired by the overlanding community), there are still several things that overlanders can do to decrease their impact on the environment. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE
Stop Answering Your Kid’s Questions
LifehackerMichelle Woo in Pocket Worthy
It’ll help them gain a critical skill—and get you out of the hot seat.
Before you can tell them that you got a C- in geography or that you once thought the word XING on the road was pronounced “Zing,” your children will see you as a perfect human knowledge-dispensing machine. And they will ask you a lot of questions. CLICK TO CONTINUE
SIMPLE BREATHING ADVICE from A Nobel Prize Winner Can Turn The Tables On Stress During The Coronavirus Lockdown
Important and easy advice, sent in by Lytingale
By David DeSalvo in Forbes
“Just breathe” is basic advice that’s easy to ignore. But when dealing with increased stress—as we are during these strange pandemic weeks—simple, controlled breathing is one of the best tools available for getting a grip on our emotions and the effects of stress on our bodies. And it happens to be the one tool we don’t have to go anywhere to find — it’s accessible with just a bit of advice and a little time. CLICK TO CONTINUE
QUESTION: Would you like your business to stay afloat with us in cyber space, during this time?
If you have a local WNC business, or know of someone else who does, please email info@sheville.org with the web address and contact information. We are offering you our pro bono work, to create and run a full page ad for your business: No charge, No expectation, and No strings attached, and No business too small.
BREVARD MUSIC CENTER @ THE MOVIES DRIVE-IN EXPERIENCE
As soon as allowed by local authorities and the North Carolina Governor’s office, Brevard Music Center (BMC) will launch Brevard Music Center @ The Drive-In Movies — an exciting summer drive-in movie series brought to you by Ingles Markets Presenting Sponsor, on the Music Center campus. The eight-film series is made possible by BMC with lead sponsors, PLATTand the Transylvania County Library Foundation, and will begin mid to late May with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as the first featured film in the series. The films will be presented on weekends at 9 PM on a big screen in the parking lot adjacent to BMC’s Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium (WPA) at 349 Andante Lane in Brevard.
ARENO PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS, LLC.
WE HAVE SOLUTIONS FOR ALL OF YOUR PROPERTY’S NEEDS
Headquartered in Western North Carolina, Areno Property Management Solutions,LLC is dedicated to helping make property managers’ lives less stressful by offering a range of property management solutions.
ACUPUNCTURE FOR DIGESTIVE HEALTH – East Asheville on Tunnel Road
Good health begins with good digestion, because digestive health is essential to overall wellbeing.
GIVING KIDS A HEAD START Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library – Buncombe County Literary Council
According to the Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, the single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children. The key is to start reading to them at birth.
BARTER THEATRE – Join us on Zoom for Inside Barter’s Macbeth
Join us for a live discussion about our planned production of Macbeth.
KATHRYN O’SHEA Presents Her Debut Full-Length Album, Entitled JANUARY 9TH
Asheville born and based singer/songwriter Kathryn O’Shea offers you her debut full-length album January 9th, which she describes as a “tribute to the dates we find impossible to forget.”
Available for pre-order now on: kathrynoshea.bandcamp.com
Available everywhere for streaming and download on Friday, April 10, 2020 www.kathrynosheamusic.com Name Your Price
Simplify Your Financial Life
104 Easy Tips for Creating the Abundant Future You Desire
Dawn Starks’s mission throughout her career has been to demystify money matters for people who want to have control over their financial lives. In her new book, Simplify Your Financial Life, she provides 104 easy-to-understand practices that will remove the financial clutter in your life and give you confidence with your money management. Freeing up that cluttered space in your life allows you to live more fully, intentionally, and without hindrances.
Should I exercise during the coronavirus pandemic?
Experts explain the just right exercise curve –
In The Conversation
So here we are, perfecting our social distancing skills while schools, sports and other forms of social engagement are on indefinite hold, by a dangerous virus named after a (regal) crown. The coronavirus is named because the center envelope is surrounded by small protein spikes called peplomers. These little protein spikes wreak havoc when they attach to lung tissue and hijack otherwise healthy tissue into building a potentially lethal coronavirus army of invaders. CLICK TO CONTINUE