White Noise Machine is featuring in two weeks. He's fairly awesome. I was able to hang with him for a bit in Calgary and probably offended him multiple times. I couldn't find a video of him performing but I did find this amazing "related" video that made me feel so soothed and relaxed.
I feel like "SleepMate 980a" is just begging to be my stage name. As if Kristy Westendorp wasn't good enough. I think in a slam it would be great if more of the poetry was designed to relax you and put you to sleep rather than them yelling at me which I find often prevents me from sleeping. Speaking of which I have discovered my favourite new yoga class. It's a hatha with nidra class. Looking at the info on on Moksana's website it was described as meditation but I was pleasantly surprised to realize that it is borderline sleeping. Well, the word nidra apparently is sanskrit for sleeping. Seriously, the instructor talks you through relaxation exercises and you lay there with blankets and bolsters just sinking into this deep chill out place. It was wonderful though I then had to basically wake up to go to hear some poetry.
The show last night was rad. I had a bit of a hard time focussing on the open mic after the amount of poetry I heard last week that I'm still processing but Kevin Matthews was just fantastic and it was good to be back in Victoria in our happy little supportive poetry community. Today I'm having lunch with Nick, then a restorative yoga class, then a girl's night over at Missie's. My health is back up to a 7.5 and I'm working on the last little bit of recovery. I feel like a restorative class will help because it's all about taking energy in rather than putting it out and the instructor reminds you over and over again to just do what feels good. Funny, that's exactly what I'm all about. Namaste.
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