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!

💙💙💙

Hey fam! When this challenge started, I was psyched to see that it leads me right into another big road trip and now that the finish line is in focus I am feeling strong and ready for it! I wanted to share my tour here in hopes of running into some of the fam while I'm on the road! Lemme know if you live near any of these towns, even if you can't make the show maybe we can workout together 🤠

I'm also debating on whether I'm bringing my 2lbs or my 3lbs 🤣 I try to pack light and last tour i stuck to no equipment but in retrospect (and I never thought I'd say this) but I missed my weights the most!

Anyways, love yall so much! Can't wait to do some of these travel classes in some national parks and keep spreading the mbody light!

Hey fam!

I know were all going through our own shit during the holidays but I'm in need of a lil support from my fam in the next few weeks as i face some heavy stuff... I've been keeping up with the challenge which has been helping tremendously, just have been forgetting to post. I've been debating about posting about my situation for a while, I hate sounding weak or complainy, but yesterday's class reminded me I'm not alone so I decided to be a little vulnerable here, in case someone is in a similar situation and needs to feel less alone.

TW: Breakups, mental health, depression, etc.

No one really needs to read this, but I figured this might be the safest space for me to get some things off my chest. Cliff notes version: I need to sell my house and face my ex next week with a family who's very pissed at me.

As some of yall know about a year ago I had a whirlwind of life. Dealing with self destruction and depression and masking it with my art and acting. I was in a relationship with someone for nearly 10 years and he had lost his attraction to me years beforehand and I figured I just had to deal with it, put myself on hold and put him first. It's how I was raised... After years of neglect, building him up and controlling comments on my image I became low key suicidal. And then I accidentally fell in love with someone else after deciding to do some solo music... I figured when I developed feelings for someone else that my ex would understand because it was in my best interest and we were drifting away from each other for years. I thought maybe we could even still be friends and have that life we built together. I told my ex about my feelings before pursuing and at first he seemed to understand and then it's been nonstop back and forth being nice or being mean. I've been trying to handle everyone with grace and love but haven't been met with the same respect. I didn't understand what living with a narcissist was until all of this happened... I'm not sure my feelings were ever valid to him.

Well a year later, and my ex is still bullying me, now my family is starting to see it. My family had sided with him for the first 6 months, to the point where they were inviting him over for holidays and not me. It was extremely hurtful and still, even with my parents talking to me now, incredibly lonely. Yes, I'm spending this upcoming holiday alone soo looking to volunteer my time somewhere if anyone has any ideas!

Anyways... My ex and I had a house together, my mom and I cosigned on the mortgage and he wanted to be on the deed with us. He's refusing to sell, couldn't get a loan in his name to buy it from us, avoiding lawyer calls and sending nasty belittling emails to me multiple times a day. Next week I'm supposed to see him after almost a year and the realtor to look at the house. He wants to have 'coffee to catch up' and doesn't want me to bring a family member with me, then tells me to 'stop hiding behind my mommy.' It's a huge mess and now my parents want to include more lawyers and I'm not sure they'll ever forgive me because they can't even move on with their lives with her credit time up in my house. I feel horrible... His guilt and pressure has been getting to me and I'm really trying to find the strength to face him and try to get off paper with him while not turning back to old destructive habits. Maybe even make peace with my family again even though they are upset with me.

I go between getting mad at myself for giving my whole youth to someone who I was trying to lift up and then getting depressed about how much time I lost and am still losing. I'm realllllly trying to not get caught up in the 'what if' scenarios. "What if I didn't date the first person I met in NYC?" "What If I left when I wasn't happy half a decade ago?" Idk... I invested everything in that house, our old band and that life together, and now I'm left without my old group of friends and an angry, let down family. He has all of my music, tools and art and I'm left some days wondering how to put food on the table and keep my show on the road. My head feels like it's going to explode sometimes but I refuse to give up.

We didn't come this far just to come this far...

END Triggering crap!

Yesterday's class reminded me that we're not alone. So I needed to confide in my tribe that I could just use some heart light energy to try to stay strong through this. Letting go of what wasn't serving me and following what was bringing my joy saved my life last year, and now I just need to stay strong because of the happiness I experienced this year, I know it's worth it but holy crap sometimes life just lays it on thick! AND THEN I decided to go to the dentist lol, a whole other stress and story!

Thank y'all for listening, and showing up for each other. This community has kept me alive and strong through some of the hardest times in my life over the past 3 years. This Thanksgiving I'm grateful for Mbody and this community of warriors. Love y'all so much! Honestly, it just feels good to have written this out instead of crying about it all day. Still don't know what to do or how to handle this sooo I'm gonna hit the mat now! Thank you and love you all <3