Exploring Charleston
We had an awesome opportunity to travel to Charleston, South Carolina to perform, visit family, and explore! It has been several years since I have been in this incredibly historic city so I was thrilled at a chance to return! Even though we were only able to visit in the city for a short time […]
How to Become Fire Safety Certified
What is Fire Safety? If you are a flow artist wanting to become a fire artist or if you are already a fire artist and want to educate yourself on the best practices to keep yourself and others safe, this is the post for you. Festivals that host a fire circle will require you to […]
Celebrity Jitters & the Importance of Vulnerability
My very first flow festival, I bumped into my biggest flow crush and celebrity literally within the first few hours of being there. I consider myself spoiled because my very first festival was FAI’s Kinetic Fire & it is a huge fest. I was still so new to Flow, that I hardly knew that I […]
A Visit to the Small Acres Homestead
If you do not already know this about me, I am a huge Homesteading fangirl. It has been a dream of mine since I was a little girl to live off of the land, working along with the earth. As of now, I am researching how to take on this lifestyle in my future! I […]
2019 Festival Adventure
2019 Festival Season It is finally festival season!! The time of year when all of of the movement artists to crawl out from our winter dens and celebrate the fresh spring air! I am so looking forward to seeing my ‘flowmies’ and flow family so much this year! Here is a schedule of which festivals […]
Kids at Festivals
Our family LOVES Festival Season! Last year, we brought the kiddos along with us to festivals for the first time, and while it was a learning experience for sure, we enjoyed the different dynamic. It was really amazing getting to share the festival life with my baby dragons. These little dragons have met so many […]
The Poopocalypse of 2018
It happened this morning. I figured it would happen at some point, but I didn’t think today was the day. I was watching the kids while Jenni went to pick up her nanny clients’ kiddos. We were playing with Legos while I enjoyed a cup of tea. But out of nowhere, our toddler comes running around […]
6 Must Haves for a Camping Festival
The 2017 ARISE music festival in Colorado was my first music festival experience & Flow Arts Institute’s Kinetic Fire was my very first Flow Arts festival. If It was not for having a wonderful, festival experienced partner & helpful friends, I would have been a little lost when it came to packing what I truly needed for the event. I […]
5 Ways To Teach Children Consent
A substantial proportion of U.S. female and male adults have experienced some form of sexual violence, stalking, or intimate partner violence at least once during their lifetimes (1). It is a fact that most of us have or will experience sexual violence. We can prevent this by teaching our children consent and modeling consent behavior. […]
HOW MOVEMENT ARTS TRANSFORMED MY FIXED MINDSET
What are Fixed Mindsets & Growth Mindsets? “More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the lifespan and is shaped by experience.” – Carol Dweck It was once assumed that our intelligence was something unchangeable. Fortunately, Carol […]