Be Inspired… Give from the Heart this season
by Frances Lefkowitz
Presents allow us to express our love and gratitude. Why, then, do we get so stressed out over them, and how can we bring sense and significance back to the season? Though many complain about the commercialism of the holiday season, no one—not even the two-sizes-too-small-hearted Grinch—would wish to get rid of presents.
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Inspiration: Set New Year’s INTENTIONS
by Tony Burroughs
On the eve of 2010, thousands of individuals throughout the world are set to write their New Year’s intentions using Tony Burroughs’ simple and effective methods for putting the laws of manifestation to work. Burroughs has authored nine books, including The Code: Ten Intentions for a Better World and The Intenders Handbook, and he explains that intentions are considerably more positive and powerful than New Year’s resolutions. “As Intenders, we deeply comprehend that our thoughts and words are constantly creating our future. Therefore, we state our intentions out loud every day, framing them in positive and powerful words that are most apt to produce the results we desire.”
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greenliving: Throw a Green Party Eco-Entertaining Made Simple
by Corey Colwell-Lipson and Lynn Colwell
Whether you are still experimenting with ways to live green or are an experienced pro at an increasingly eco-friendly life, a party décor checklist is good to have on hand. The ultimate goal is hosting a zero-waste gathering, one that embraces only products and items that can be consumed, reused, recycled or composted.
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NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN’S Holiday Train Show Offers Green Gift to New York
By Tom Citrano
New York is brimming with holiday traditions. From the Rockefeller Center Tree, to the Radio City Holiday Show, to the ice-skating in Bryant Park, every family has activities they like to enjoy at this time of year. And over the last 18 years more than a million of them have ventured out to the New York Botanical Garden to enjoy the Holiday Train Show.
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“Birdie” Nesting at Newly Re-Designed All-Green Henry Miller Theatre
Bye Bye Birdie made its Broadway debut almost 50 years ago. Now Birdie is back on Broadway, this time at The Henry Miller Theatre on 43rd Street in Times Square. Audiences have been entering the theatre through the famous neo-Georgian façade since it first opened in 1918. But once through the front doors, the audience won’t remember ever having been there before. That’s because it’s all new…And all GREEN!
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Simply Stamos: Twelve Before Eight
By Tom Citrano
Times Square is full of people from all walks of life. Some of them are New Yorkers. Most are from out of town. They’ve traveled here from across the country and around the world to enjoy the best our city has to offer. One of the things they would seem to have in common is their love for John Stamos.
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Onstage, Montego Glover loves MEMPHIS but offstage she sings about her green and healthy-living life in New York City!
By Tom Citrano
Don’t be confused when walking down Shubert Alley and you hear strains of a Memphis-tinged fusion of blues and rock and roll. You’re still in New York, but what you might be hearing is the exciting, original score from Broadway’s newest musical hit, Memphis. Memphis is previewing at the Shubert Theatre, in preparation for an October 19th opening. Memphis takes place in the smoky halls and underground clubs of the 1950’s. Huey Calhoun, a young, white DJ, falls in love with everything he shouldn’t: rock and roll and an electrifying black singer, Felicia Farrell. 
Montego Glover plays Felicia Farrell. Montego made her Broadway debut in The Color Purple (playing Celie and Nettie) and has traveled across the country many times, appearing in touring productions and regional theaters in a wide variety of roles. She also has an expansive list of credits in TV, studio recordings, concerts and commercials. Montego originated the role of Felicia in the initial production of Memphis at the La Jolla Playhouse. Ms. Glover lives in New York and is excited about settling back into her own home for a long Broadway run, while performing in Memphis. Montego took a few minutes between rehearsals to talk to Natural Awakenings NYC about her healthy life outside Memphis.
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5Rhythms®
Dance/Movement Practice Fosters
Creative Expression
Creative expression is key to the 5Rhythms® Dance/Movement Practice. Developed by internationally renowned theater director, author and recording artist Gabrielle Roth, students dance freestyle through five specific energies or beats:
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Creative Expression and Healthy Living Play Big Role in
Real-Life of West Side Story’s Matt Cavenaugh
By Tom Citrano
This month Natural Awakenings’ theme is “Creative Expression.” And there is no better example of “Creative Expression” than the American musical theater classic, West Side Story. This enduring fan favorite was created over fifty years ago by a team of iconic geniuses who each individually changed the way we experience the arts. Together they created West Side Story, a work that has stood the test of time and redefined the medium. This team of theatrical superheroes included Leonard Bernstein (music), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), Arthur Laurents (book), and Jerome Robbins (choreography).
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Coming Home to Yourself
When Your Home Expresses Who You Are
by Judith Fertig
Illustrations by Jill Butler
Home. It’s a small word for a universal idea, one that resonates deeply with complex individual meanings and associations.
Regardless of whether home is a room, apartment, cottage or mansion, how homey it seems depends first on two physical factors: light coming in on two sides and a view of greenery or sky, according to Clare Cooper Marcus, professor emerita of the departments of architecture and landscape architecture and environmental planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
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