Blessings to all Lava Dancers and Dance Lovers,

Hope you are all faring well through the winter. Just a short newsletter today to get you thinking about the spring dance, and share a bit of human magic in a very inspiring Youtube video. This is about a gentleman who is giving away music in Washington State and creating a miracle in the community.

He says, “Music is a gift, you give it away and you get to keep it forever.”

I can’t embed a video into an email, but you can either click on the following link to Youtube, or come to Liveatlava.com and watch the video on our newsletter page.

Click here for the video of the Harmonica Man(link is external)

Spring Dance April 26-28 2013

Thanks to everyone who signed up early for the Spring Live at Lava dance. You early-birds are a super special gift in a community that is always full of love.

I’m going to get it together to send out a more “newsy” newsletter one of these days, But here is a short little rundown of some of the changes we are continuing with.

• In December the community decided that changes in the way we do food were working well, and actually pretty exciting for a few folks.
• We have some amazing raw food “cooks” who are going to be sharing classes with us on Saturday afternoon – which will result in Saturday’s dinner.
• We’ll also have some crockpot classes/recipes cooking up on Saturday afternoon.
• Saturday dinner is going to be AMAZING!
• Everyone agreed to have Friday night dinner be potluck. I’m very excited about that.
• Lunches and breakfast will be supplied by the camp.
• We agreed that meals (particularly breakfast and lunch) will be simple with special care taken to reduce the amount of cleanup needed by our faithful karma yoga crews.
• Decorations in the hall last December were wonderful. Wayne is continuing on with his creativity and appreciates all the help from everyone in ideas and setup/takedown.

Photographs

Unfortunately our beautiful photographer in December had her camera stolen before she could get the photographs off. Somebody out there is enjoying all our pictures!

But the good news is that the December community was very generous in letting her photograph from inside and outside the circle during a few select dances in the morning. We are going to be continuing that idea both so that we can get great pictures, and so that we don’t have to worry about cameras and all during the rest of the weekend.

If anyone has any good photos to share please send them on, or post them to our Facebook page.

Fragrance Free

In December we had an offering of essential oils being sold during the bazaar. What we did was simply ask the entire circle, who was there at the time, if the essential oils were okay. There was nobody at the camp who had a sensitivity, so we were able to have the oils at the bazaar.

It seems like that is a good way to manage the fragrance free needs of the group. So let’s all basically continue assuming that the camp is fragrance free – particularly from any manufactured purfumes and the like. But once we are at camp, if someone has something special like the essential oils, we’ll simply ask the community if it’s okay and proceed from there.

See you soon

Enough for now and hope to see you all soon. The days are starting to get longer and that always brings a rush of creativity to the soul!

Love,

Connie Z and Wayne!