Workout Marathon in Southwest DC

One peculiar thing about the Southwest quadrant of DC is that with all the talks of sports, stadiums and development, there are very few fitness options around Navy Yard or the Waterfront. I occasionally bike through the Anacostia Park over the Frederick Douglass bridge to jump on to the Haine's Point pathway. But for the most part, SW is pretty bland for fitness.

That's why this weekend the Workout Marathon Fundraiser sponsored by Wanda Woman Fitness is a good way to give SW some flavor, other than the funky Fish Market!

Stay-Fit Fundraising Marathon for Haiti on:

Sunday,February 28, 2010 at 2pm-6pm
$20
Westminster Presbyterian Church
400 I Street Southwest

All proceeds will go to the Save The Children, a humanitarian organization providing medical aid in Haiti.

Professional dancers, fitness instructors, and Personal Trainers from around the Metro DC area will teach a variety of mini classes of Hip-hop Funk, Cardio Kickboxing. Aerobics,Yoga, Tai Chi,Zumba, and my personal favorite Gut and Butts.

Stay-Fit Fundraiser Exercise Marathon

2:00 - 2:30--------------Hip-hop Funk with WandaWoman

2:30 - 3:00----------------Zumba with Margo Mark MArks

3:00 - 3:30 ---------------Cardio Kickboxing with Don Floyd

3:30 - 4:00--------------- Guts & Butts with Jackie McKinon

4:00 - 4:30 ---------------Modern Dance with Yummy Tyler

4:30 – 5:00----------------Yoga with Lorenita Lucas

5:00 – 5:30----------------Tai Chi with Tiacoh Sadia

5:30 - 5:35-----------------Dance Tribute by Yummy Tyler

5:35 - 6:00-----------------Fundraiser Closeout


Wanda Bamberg Tia, Founder/CEO
WandaWoman Enterprises
www.wandawomanworkout.com
202.413.4186

The Queen of Manifestation

Do you believe that your reality is a manifestation of your thoughts or just a consequence of chance? Imani Johnson will help you answer this question at next week's Manifest 2010 on February 20, 2010 from 1-4pm. Imani has been teaching about creating your reality and law of attraction throughout DC for the last 3 years. I first attended her workshop in Brookland with a little apprehension at how all this talk about thought power worked. During the workshop we shared our ideas and Imani helped give our visions structure and strategy. I left really enjoying the exchange and excited for the next Vision Party. So this year I am attending Manifest Vision 2010 with a lil more confidence in the process and a little more cash, The party costs $35.

Check out her site for more info.

Registration is required and space is limited. Contact Imani to receive a registration form and pay the fee using your paypal account (username:manifestqueen@gmail.com). The workshop is $35 in advance/$40 at the door.

The workshop will be held on February 20, 2010 from 1pm-4pm at the Art of Living Center, located at 2401 15th Street NW, Washington DC (Across from Malcolm X Park). The closest metro stations are the U Street and Columbia Heights.

http://www.manifestqueen.com/

Go Deep with SNOW-GA

I wish I could brag about standing in grocery lines for hours, digging out 2 feet of snow, and spending meaningful quite moments with myself during the blizzard of 2010. Instead, I escaped the Snowpocolypse only by minutes while flying out of DC as I watched the snowflakes dump onto the runway.

Rather than being snowed in DC, I was snowed out of DC and forced to get by with just 5 days of clothes and lots of hotel food.

My yoga and fitness practice took a real hit but I did find Exercise T.V. on cable which offered a great variety of instructors doing home based exercises in 5-30 minute intervals.

But all the pics of snow, make the Blizzard of 2010 seem so serene, peaceful and like a good chance to shake off the snowflakes and get deep with Snow-ga.

Snow-ga is simply taking your yoga practice deeper and rejoicing in the symbolic abundance of snow! Snow-ga is just a concept and another way to see the possibilities and nature's ability to overflow at any moment.

The Flying Yogi

Lately, I have been travelling alot and that means an abundance of salty airport food, poor air quality, bad sleep patterns and the general wear and tear of living in a terminal.

So I developed some key travel health tips for people like me who don't want to break a healthy living pattern:

1) Drink er Down... Water is the most important part of travelling. You get dehydrated from the artificial heat and cooling inside the airplane. Plus your, ehem, movements aren't as regular as when you are at home. So drinking lots of water before you fly in between layovers and after you come is great way to keep things, ehem, moving.

2) Nuts and Bolts- Nuts are the only healthy staple in just about every single airport shop. Nuts have protein, they are easy to smuggle through security and can quickly satisfy a hunger fix giving you a bolt of energy.

3)Stretch Your Limits - When we travel, we do get some exercise by lugging around baggage or chasing our connecting flights. We can easily forget to work our muscles losing sight of our yoga or fitness practice.

4)Net Benefits - If you have a laptop, ipod or any device that connects to the Wonderful World Web, you can download yoga podcasts, pilates, calisthenics, even P90x. Do these in your hotel room or even in the airport waiting area! My favorite podcasts are with Faith Hunter. You can also explore Yogi Chocolate on http://www.yogichocolate.com/ for other great online classes.

5)Relax- Travelling can be stressful with all the mayhem with security, delays, work, family, small seats... you name it. Just enjoy the ride and keep in mind, you will be back home to your regularly scheduled healthy programming.