NY Artist Fran Beallor: Annual Open Studio

Free For All 18" x 24" oil on canvas

Fran Beallor is pleased to open her Manhattan studio to visitors. In addition to her oils and prints, she will be featuring works on paper from her flat files - drawings, watercolors and new works from the past year.

The studio is at 839 West End Avenue #6F NY, NY 10025, a few blocks from the IRT subway 1, 2 or 3 to 96th St.

Come see some art, have a snack, enjoy a little pre-holiday cheer:
Saturday December 3rd, 12:00 noon - 6:00 pm
Sunday December 4th, 12:00 noon - 5:00 pm

Come by or make an appointment for a private showing at another time. The artist enjoys receiving visitors!

Check out Fran's work at website www.franbeallor.com

"Accidental Encounters is a series of paintings that emerged from my desire to push the limits of my earlier, more traditional still life work. I became fascinated by the idea of creating still lifes that were not so still. Inspired by interests as diverse as chaos theory, poetics, gravity and romance, I began to paint objects falling through space. I reinvented my concept of an orderly painting, along with my ideal of an orderly world."

THE FOUR ESSENTIALS by Orlanda Brugnola

This is great to ponder on:

THE FOUR ESSENTIALS © Orlanda Brugnola

Before you plan on something
decide on your INTENTION
think of at least 5 possible ACTIONS
think of at least 5 possible +/- IMPACTS for each
then 5 +/- CONSEQUENCES for each impact
then figure out what is really the best action

Orlanda Brugnola -- Depth, Breadth, Creativity and Perseverance
http://www.orlandabrugnola.com/

Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe

Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012

This exhibition is the first large-scale presentation of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from Alfred Stieglitz's collection, acquired by the Metropolitan in 1949. In addition to being a master photographer, Stieglitz (1864–1946) was a visionary promoter of modern American and European art, and he assembled a vast art collection of exceptional breadth and depth. Through a succession of influential galleries that he ran in New York City between 1905 and 1946, Stieglitz exhibited many of the most important artists of the era, and he collected works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Constantin Brancusi, Gino Severini, Vasily Kandinsky, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Charles Demuth, and Arthur Dove. For more than sixty years, the Alfred Stieglitz Collection has been the cornerstone of the Museum's holdings of modern American art.

For more information visit: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2011/stieglitz-and-his-artists-matisse-to-okeeffe

An Answer to Tight, Contracted Muscles and Stiff Joints: Yamuna® Body Rolling

Do you sometimes wake up in the morning or come home at the end of the day with tight, contracted muscles and stiff joints? Do you long for a massage, but feel it's a luxury you can't afford? What if you could give yourself a self-massage every day and loosen tight muscles and constricted joints? What if you can be empowered every moment of the day to relieve muscular pain? Try Yamuna® Body Rolling. I did and I was thrilled of its effects. I felt I had a new, younger and more structurally sound body.

WHAT IS YAMUNA BODY ROLLING?

Yamuna® Body Rolling (YBR®) is a fitness and therapeutic practice that combines healing, wellness and injury prevention. It can be done with a certified practioner or on one's own, once the routines are learned. The beauty in YBR® is that its effectivenss is immediate. YBR® routines elongate and tone contracted muscles, improve alignment, increase circulation, develop core strength, stimulate nerve roots and organs, increase metabolism, relax the nervous system, expand the lungs to deepen breathing and increase body awareness.

Yamuna® Body Rolling grew out of Yamuna® Body Logic, developed by Yamuna Zake over twenty years ago. In Body Logic, Yamuna exerted traction on a muscle by using one elbow to apply pressure at the point where a muscle began and the other hand to pull the muscle in its natural direction, toward its insertion. The result was greater length in the muscle, decompressing bones, joints and nerves.

Yamuna® Body Rolling follows the same principles of Yamuna® Body Logic. The theory behind YBR® is that restriction, pain and discomfort are caused by lack of space. The goal of YBR® is to create space by restoring length to muscles and reorganize the body structure. In YBR®, small reinflatable balls of various sizes (six-ten inches) are used to stimulate bone, release tendons and stretch muscles to free restrictions, increase blood flow and promote healing.

Profound changes occur in people's bodies because space and length is created in the muscular body and the skeletal body. This frees the body to move in its natural way and allows the organs more space to function better.

To find out more, please visit: http://yamunabodyrolling.com/about/body_rolling/

Artist Adrienne Moumin Opens Up Her NYC Studio

Artist Adrienne Moumin opens up her NYC studio, for the first time in over a decade.

Adrienne Moumin is pleased to open her Manhattan studio on Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, 2011, from 12-5PM both days. She will be exhibiting works from her “Architextures” series of hand-cut-and-assembled monochrome photo collages.

PRLog (Press Release) - Oct 05, 2011 -
Photographer and collage artist Adrienne Moumin will be opening her Manhattan studio to the public, on Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, 2011, from 12-5PM both days. Moumin will be showing works from her “Architextures” series of hand-cut-and-assembled gelatin silver photo collages. The event will signal Moumin’s return to New York after a ten-year absence. The studio is located at 240 East 55th Street, #8A, New York, NY 10022. Moumin’s studio is also open by appointment.

Read full Press Release: http://www.prlog.org/11683990

The Health Benefits of Yoga (from WebMD)

Full article can be seen at: http://www.webmd.com/balance/the-health-benefits-of-yoga

Yoga has been practiced for more than 5,000 years, and currently, close to 11 million Americans are enjoying its health benefits. Yoga can hardly be called a trend.
Most Westernized yoga classes focus on learning physical poses, which are called asanas. They also usually include some form of breathing technique and possibly a meditation technique as well. Some yoga classes are designed purely for relaxation. But there are styles of yoga that teach you how to move your body in new ways. Choosing one of these styles offers the greatest health benefits by enabling you to develop your flexibility, strength, and balance

Yoga and Flexibility

When some people think of yoga, they imagine having to stretch like a gymnast. That makes them worry that they're too old, unfit, or "tight" to do yoga. The truth is you're never too old to improve flexibility.

The series of yoga poses called asanas work by safely stretching your muscles. This releases the lactic acid that builds up with muscle use and causes stiffness, tension, pain, and fatigue. In addition, yoga increases the range of motion in joints. It may also increase lubrication in the joints. The outcome is a sense of ease and fluidity throughout your body.
Yoga stretches not only your muscles but all of the soft tissues of your body. That includes ligaments, tendons, and the fascia sheath that surrounds your muscles. And no matter your level of yoga, you most likely will see benefits in a very short period of time. In one study, participants had up to 35% improvement in flexibility after only eight weeks of yoga. The greatest gains were in shoulder and trunk flexibility. (Full article can be seen on WebMD)

The Story of Cosmetics

Please watch this video at the link below. It's important, informative and entertaining:

http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-cosmetics/

You'll be amazed at how much carcinogenic and toxic substances you are putting on your skin everyday. 65% of what you put on your skin is absorbed. There are alternatives....