Another year another challenge! Thank yall again for keeping these 5 years so interesting, fun and healthy! This challenge had a bit of bouncing around due to early shows and schedules, I can't rock out before my mbody time lol. I love surrendering to the flow of these challenges and accepting rest days which is something I'm trying to work in more for myself, but man it makes those sculpt days more fiery! Love this challenge

Low key high key hoping for a 60 into the colder months 💙🙏🤞 this was so fun o don't want the journey to be over!

Thank you and congrats to everyone who accepted the challenge of showing up for themselves!

Happy 5 years yall!!!

We made this video to celebrate but it was hard finding everyone in the fam without Marnie knowing! Sonplease add any sentiments, videos, photos below of celebrating this amazing half decade of movement, community and love!

Thank you for being my fam!!! Love yall!!!

https://youtu.be/peZ8g5_Bl5Y

Hey fam!

I'm hitting the road again on a 6 week tour, been a few years since I've been away for so long! I'm excited and nervous and hoping all this work pays off. Marnies message in today's class about being on the brink of something big when feeling stuck really hit me, as I've been dealing with discouragement with my new album coming out and the technical difficulties surrounding that. These are normal feelings and I don't judge them but it is what it is. On top of family drama just hoping for a safe, fun and somewhat profitable trip as this winter put me out of work for two months after being sick. Just being vulnerable in the safest place I know 💙 Leaving in ten days, send safety and strength energy and of course if this route is near any of yall I'd love to hug you in my travels 💙

Also, my new album Halfway Decent comes out April 1st, so I'm trying to celebrate that with the spring time sun best I can 💙 listen if you like weird music 💙 love yall so much 💙 grateful for the best half a decade in my life (so far🤞)

Hey yall! I didn't add to my challenge board daily but I super enjoyed the calender app and just clicking in and checking off the workout! Love the new feature! LOVED the class sequencing of this very busy month for me. This challenge made me so happy and feel connected and grounded while my mind was in libra mode in many different directions with work and what not! I loved seeing the Italy retreat happening too even tho I couldn't always post my daily video, i felt connected to our badass warrior fam! I needed this focus before heading off on another tour that I needed to release fear and anxiety of crossing the country during this weird season. Anyways, I love yall! Congrats challengers! To many more! Love growing up with yall 💙
Ps. Send white light of safety vibes as we cross the country once again, even playing the city we were in the car accident in last year 🫠 💙🙏🫂

Hey fam!
I was feeling inspired by yall and I'm getting ready to embark on my 7th big tour, which I'd LOVE to meet up with any of yall if I'm passing through your town! So with roadtrip prep comes playlist planning! So I made an Mbody Musician playlist! OG members Jesse Palter and Jen Korbee! Julia and Michael of the Lolly Bombs! My friend Emily Keating who has been with us for almost 2 years already just released this beautiful single that makes me think of our December babies;)! Myself and of course our fearless bad ass leader Marnie!
Thank you Lindsey for helping me fill in the blanks with some of these! Please let me know if any other members have music on Spotify!
Just wanted to share this with yall if you need an end of summer freestyle fam inspired dance party. Love yall!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1SZlypnHuTZmqpknlaGYQK?si=eqszjh41Tf-byML6E7zJ1g

Hey Fam!
I'm hitting the road for another tour tomorrow, technically the 8th we leave home. Definitely got some pre road trip nerves after a slow, healing and fiscally tight winter, especially since the car accident in September (which I have been released from physical therapy and back to myself! Woohoo!) So if you're sending out safety and protection thoughts for anyone send some my way too! (And Michael and Julia too because they'll also be hitting the road cross country and we're Playing some shows together in NC and NY!!! All because of this community! Musicians are touring together!!💙🙏) white Light of safety all day long 😅Also, if anyone lives in these towns, come say hi! Would love to hug some East Coast fam! Love yall so much!
Ps. So grateful for this fam getting me strong and up to par, time after time. Definitely wouldn't be doing what I love without this command the support yall have offered me during some of the hardest and darkest times of my life 💙 love yall!

Hey Fam!

Would love to connect with more of yall on Instagram! I think I lost track of a lot of folks over the years so I figured asking on the community board may be a fun way to connect with new and old members for all of us 💙

I'm @FaithKellyArt ! What's your IG??

Happy belated birthday Marnie!!! Now that the secret is out just wanted to post more about donating to Viva for anyone who we missed with word of mouth reach out 💙

Love this community so much, thank you Marnie for showing up for us through the years! Also here's the pictures Viva sent me of Vinnie ! They're such cool people over there!

Love yall and happy new years!!

All donations, whatever we're individually and fiscally comfortable with, can be directly sent to Viva with 'Marnie Alton's Birthday' in the notes. (credit/debit through the site or paypal, zelle, venmo, etc.) All donations can be tax deductible too! You'd just need to send a separate email to Vivaglobalrescue@gmail.com work that end out.

More info on the rescue:

https://vivaglobalrescue.org/

And ways to donate:

Venmo: @vivarescuedonations

paypal.me/vivaglobalrescue

Zelle: 310-808-5943

Debit/credit: vivaglobalrescue.org

I'm curious what everyone's least favorite move is? You know, the one you keep trying to fall in love with but always back off of? I'm also curious if you got yourself to actually fall in love with said moves!

For me, after 3 years im still trying to love the high knees in plank posture / classic mountain climbers! I always cut out to child's pose early 😅🙏 But I have gotten myself in lean into, enjoy and actually look forward to planks and push-ups 😂 so I couldn't help but wonder about it!

Anyways yall have a great week 💙💙💙

Hey fam,

I was on the yoga mat last night and attempted the class I was planning on doing last Tuesday, the only day off on that giant tour I was on. Once the cardio burst came into play, I knew the class was for another day, slightly bummed because I LOVE jumping around on the mat, I chose ballet stretch 309 and it was perfect and exactly the pace I needed to check my balance and stretch deeply.

While I was on the mat something Marnie said resonated with me (i can't remember what exactly) and a message came through my hea

Fall in love with healing.

It's been about a week since I've been in another car accident. But this was different. Lpng story somewhat short... Four days away from home from our amazing 5 week tour, someone rear ended the passenger's side of our van going over 90 mph and then fled the scene. The impact was so hard I flew forward and slammed back so hard the seat reclined the whole way. I ended up blacking out and had been dealing with severe whiplash and insane body soreness. Luckily, the girl who hit us went away in a cop car and we went off to the emergency room. While I get extremely bummed about the whole thing, I try to replace the grief with extreme gratitude considering how much worse this could have been. Somehow the van continued to work. The instruments survived and we didn't die or get injured much worse. We finished the tour and finally got home on Sunday. The doctors were amazed that I had no serious neck or spinal bone injuries and mentioned that it's probably because it looked strong and healthy. I have scoliosis, of course I chalked that up to this practice.

Still have to make sure there's no other damage, and get some more tests done that I gotta be strong for, but I can say for sure that I walked away okay enough from that because of this practice.

While I hate getting hurt (arm dislocation, tooth extraction, extreme depression, covid, family issues, breakups, death, etc.) I realized during today's class, the first one I did in my living room after truck stops, parks and hotel rooms for a month...

That everytime we get to heal is an opportunity to start from the ground up. It's the ultimate beginner's mind and we're forced to listen to every ounce of ourselves and decide to try every movement. It's challenging, but we've trained for this ;) I've been sitting at my shows instead of jumping around (which makes me afraid people won't like my music anymore.. which is stupid, so I'm trying to think of it as a special rare set of healing shows lol ) but even with that, the chair grounds me so I don't do something stupid while playing and I get to focus more on the root of that practice.

Anyways, I almost wrote in here last week right after it happened but have been caught up in the whirlwind of making calls, unpacking, dealing with insurance and finding time to rest. I also realize I forget the community board is here as I'm usually more active on IG, and considering I need to hold back posting while everything processes, i feel safe enough to share on here. So not making anything about the accident public 🙏 I'm very grateful for this space because it's hard to be quiet when something like this happens.

I know a lot of us are going through heavy, draining, intense times. So I figured that I'd share these thoughts. That maybe having to heal can be a beautiful beginning and you're not alone in your healing even it's its TOTALLY different from everyone elses.

This fall... I'm going to fall in love with healing.

Just wanted to put that out there for whoeever might need it <3

Love y'all and this family so much. Thank you for being there for me throughout the years. Also making me strong enough to survive the impossible... again!

💙💙💙