Maisy's Ponies Party :)

Kutakatik Art Craft Class had a blast this weekend. We were invited to Maisy's Ponies Birthday Party at the Arthayasa Stables. Maisy is Tilly's sister, Susie and Herbert daughters. Tilly was my student when I was still working at this one school. But we became good friends since Tilly and Maisy join Kutakatik Art Craft Class (me and my sister's art craft class). Anyway, I love the place, it's green, relaxing because they got swimming pool too. It's nice because it's a bit far from the hectic city....took us some time to go there, but it's worth it. We did some art & craft for the birthday activities, painting the ponies :)

Swimming, riding, making arts & craft....the people, place, food and activities were Fun! :D

Fell In Love With The Wrong Planet :)

A good friend of mine, Zeke Khaseli was launching his new album “Fell in Love with the Wrong Planet” with a mini concert :) It was an awesome gig! Good music, good people, great costumes too! Here are some of the pics I took that night.

That's Zeke :)

Zeke & Anggun :)

All the creatures were in the house yow! :D

Ladya, Ari, Mela & Vira (Zeke's cousins), Zeke & me :)

Got my self some Zeke's totebag with Marishka Soekarna's illustration...and Jules et Jim is one of my fave song! :) Check their "Rolling Like a Stupid Stone" EP release party here.

Happiness Runs :)

Little pebble upon the sand
Now you're lying here in my hand,
How many years have you been here ?

Little human upon the sand
From where I'm lying here in your hand,
You to me are but a passing breeze.

The sun will always shine where you stand
Depending in which land
You may find yourself.
Now you have my blessing, go your way.

Happiness runs in a circular motion
Thought is like a little boat upon the sea.
Everybody is a part of everything anyway,
You can have everything if you let yourself be.

Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs free

Happiness runs in a circular motion
Thought is like a little boat upon the sea.
Everybody is a part of everything anyway,
You can have everything if you let yourself be.

Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.

Happiness runs in a circular motion
Thought is like a little boat upon the sea.
Everybody is a part of everything anyway,
You can have everything if you let yourself be.

Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.

Why ? Because.
Why ? Because.
Why ? Because.
Why ? Because.

Happiness runs in a circular motion
Thought is like a little boat upon the sea.
Everybody is a part of everything anyway,
You can have everything if you let yourself be.

You can have everything if you let yourself be...

KidsYoga Teacher Training

I met  Fezia Tyebally a couple of months ago, my good friend Tina introduced us. They both are kidsyoga teacher for typicall & differently abled children. And thanks to both of them, they made me want to learn more about kidsyoga too.
And last week, I attended the 5 days Kids Yoga Teacher Training with Fezia, for typicall children and differently abled children. It was a very insightful and nice training. It was like a mental shower for me. I learned more a lot from her about little things in life, kids, yoga itself, breathing, and of course yoga poses too. There were 14 of us and we were having fun together. Five days training, we're all tired but yet we're happy! It's always nice to meet new people and learn from them too :)

Pic from BlissWellnessCo

Fezia showed us some simple poses for kids and the benefits behind those poses too. I was amazed, never thought about it before. Each poses have their own effects/purposes, for our body, us adults and especially for typicall/differently abled kids. Yes, she told us that "we're not a healer, we're there to help the typicall/differently abled kids so they can cope with things more easily..."

We learned that we can use these kind of tools to play or to do yoga with kids :) And we were surprised about it. It's very usefull! Besides all of the poses, we can play games with kids too. And yes we have to make it fun in the class!

This training made me appreciate more about our body, little things in life and kids too of course. I think we just have to respect each other and children too. We don't need labels. And that everybody has their own God/Jesus/Muhammad or whatever they feel call/feel it in this universe....it's their own business. We just have to be kind and accept our differences, same thing like the typicall person/kid and differently abled person/kid. Always think positive, and  yes, nothing's is perfect....so what? there must be some other way.

Lia, Me, Fezia and Ade :)

Some thoughts from Fezia that made me think for my self, kids and people too..."Whatever you do, do it with your heart and kindness, you try and try and then you let go...simple..." :)
And..."How do you spell Impossible? I-AM-Possible.."....how do you read this " Opportunity nowhere? Look again, and you will see that Opportunity Now Here..." :)

Now I know that Tree Pose and Downward Dog are my favorite yoga poses :) So I rubbed my hands now, breathe and let's say "Sat Nam". Sat Nam means "be truth to yourself". We need to have balance...for our mind, body and spirit...to be truthfull to ourself. And now I can't wait to do my homework and start to do yoga with kids...and help the kids too :)

Shadow Puppetry for Early Childhood Education Workshop

I attended a two days workshop about Shadow Puppetry by Susan Allen & Susiawan, founders of Yellow Coco creative nest, a community based arts Nyuh Kuning, Ubud, Bali. They live together in Ubud. The workshop discusses as they say it, “the usage of shadow puppetry in classroom teaching and learning. We can use the shadow puppet to learn about science, change of time, source of life, counting...and lots of more stuff”.  And it's true :)

Susan told us too...that, puppets have captured our imaginations from when we were young, teaching us everything from basic math to the alphabets.

Susan & Susiawan made us think about, "how to use art in basic education." And let the kids use their imagination and creativity. Use their body, mind, soul....wholeness :) The creativity itself has to be risk taking, in a non-judgemental atmosphere. We have to teach the kids about acceptence and differences too. Let them play too...and yes, creativity needs time, especially for  kids :)

And to make the shadow puppet, it could be musical, story based, emotion, colourfull. Ouw and the kids will gain more confident too by playing behind the screen. :)

Susan & Susiawan's wayang

We made our own Gununngan :)

We made our own storyboard and wayang too.

One of the reasons why i love arts & crafts....check out the materials. And as for simple wayang, you only need simple stuff such as, brown paper, strings, chopstix, etc...as you can see from the pics :)

After that, we played the story too. We had to put our mind like we're in Pre-K or Kindergarten :)

Great people, great speakers, nice positive vibe...it was a great workshop! It's always nice meeting new people, share knowledge and just have fun with them :)

Simple happiness :)

Simple happiness from my point of view (pictures was taken last weekend by me)...

Got this sweet card and candies from a good friend of mine :)

Cooking and having company at home :)

Chillaxing and swimming...gotta do some exercise too :)

Eat good food! That tempe kencur made by Bi Suli was dope!

Been looking for this book for almost a year....if it's meant to be...it's meant to be :)

 Got that black yellowgreenish shocking legging, shades and peanut butter cinnamon from my cousin :)

Yes and that's my theme song this weekend :)

Happy :)