Movement educator, writer, RSMT, Level IV Spacial Dynamics Trainer, SubStack https://xitter.gq/t.co/P78H1JsW5L + Keep the Beat - A Jazz Life, also on SubStack
California, USA
Joined January 2010
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Valerie Baadh retweeted
SO GOOD! From @stevemagness:
"Playgrounds & free play are risk calibration tools....When risk is removed from play, kids are more prone to anxiety disorders, because they never develop the ability to cope with fear-inducing situations."
Risk of comfort:
stevemagness.substack.com/p/…
Valerie Baadh retweeted
Delighted with this @TED_ED video on #riskyplay!
One of those instances when they took on board all feedback and suggestions and made a great, short practical video!
ed.ted.com/lessons/the-best-… via @TED_ED
Valerie Baadh retweeted
"Physical activity alone is an excellent adjunct to conventional therapy, and when you combine that with the element of enjoying the weather or scenery, you might be doing your mind a favor along with your body." psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
Valerie Baadh retweeted
Let's get #NoKingsMarch28th trending. Tomorrow is the day.
Let's get this tweet to have 1.2 million or more views by tomorrow night. If you agree that we should not have a wannabe dictator as president, watch the video, reply and read the embedded Tweet.
In addition to the #NoKingsMarch28 protest, I want to make you aware that there are 2 elections happening next Tuesday: one in Georgia's 14th district and the other for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Democrats need to turn out for both of them, both of them flip if every Dem votes
Valerie Baadh retweeted
Cuba is experiencing nationwide blackouts, and clinicians have requested N95s. I will donate a dollar for every RT this gets in the next hour.
MAKE ME PAY.
James is organizing a fundraiser. Venmo: James-Ray-24
Valerie Baadh retweeted
Anonymous
I run a small pizza shop. Deliveries mostly. Late nights. Got a call at 10 PM. Woman’s voice shaking. “Can you deliver to Sunset Motel?” “Yes ma’am. What would you like?” Long pause. “What can I get for six dollars? I have three kids.” Six dollars wouldn’t cover one pizza. “We have a special tonight. Family meal. Three pizzas, breadsticks, drinks. Six dollars.” No such special. She started crying. “Really?” Made the pizzas myself. Added wings. Cookies. Juice boxes. Drove it over.
She opened the door. Bruises on her neck. Three little kids behind her. Terrified. Quiet. “Thank you. You don’t understand.” I did understand. Started happening weekly. She’d call. I’d have a special ready. Month three she didn’t call anymore. Worried me. Two months later she walked in. Different person. Confident. Had a job. Apartment. Kids looked healthy. Happy. Handed me three hundred dollars. “For all the specials that weren’t real. I knew.” Tried to refuse. “Please. Let me pay forward.” That money started a fund. When someone calls from a shelter or motel desperate, we use it. Six years now. Over a thousand meals delivered. She’s a paralegal. Refers families to us constantly. Works with domestic violence survivors. Her oldest is in high school. Works at my shop weekends. “Because you fed us when we were running. Now I want to feed others.” Last Saturday she delivered to a family at that same motel. Came back crying. “That was us five years ago. Now I get to be you.”
Valerie Baadh retweeted
This father-daughter duet... a happy and lovely singer. And what an amazing job from the father❤️
Valerie Baadh retweeted
@X @Support Please restore the account of @PeterHotez. It has been hacked. He is a great person who has received much abuse on this platform.
Valerie Baadh retweeted
Put aside for a moment the righteous beauty of the Puerto Rican diaspora unfurling before our eyes and ears underneath a swinging horn arrangement & a rhythm section that would make Tito Puente proud.
The dancing that mesmerized & celebrated life itself weaving in and out of a story line that felt like the Diego Rivera mural ‘Man at the Crossroads’ come to life. Art that rises to the occasion like Bad Bunny’s performance is a rare bird.
It reacted to the complexity and peril of this moment by transcending it and reminding us all of our common humanity and the joy and dignity that resides in every human heart.
The vibrant and beautiful culture this world has gifted us is always cause for celebration. In a time of reactionary retreats, it was expansive & life affirming and made obvious the moral challenge of this moment.
It did so with energy, poetry, light and love. It called on our better angels to rise to the occasion. I believe we will.🙏
Valerie Baadh retweeted
Joy doesn't wait for permission or perfect timing. It doesn't postpone itself until every wound has healed, until the chaos settles, until the ledger of life balances itself. Instead, joy emerges like wildflowers through concrete — in the spaces we least expect it, through the fissures of our carefully constructed defenses. It arrives as a sudden burst of golden light piercing winter's gray veil, as the inexplicable warmth of a stranger's smile when we needed it most, as the bridge of connection spanning the gulf between two lonely souls. I've witnessed its stubborn persistence in my own journey, even through downturns of life, burning like a match struck in a cave, small but undeniable, refusing to be extinguished no matter how fierce the wind.
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This winter, I brought to life something that has lived in my imagination for years—the first annual print edition of The Gurdeep Magazine. It features writing from other contributors alongside my own work. If you feel called to hold this warmth of printed words in your hands, visit Gurdeep.ca/magazine.
Valerie Baadh retweeted
This is such a great activity for seniors. Hand-eye coordination exercises like this can really help with daily tasks and boost brain health. Plus, it looks like they’re having a good time. 👏👏
Valerie Baadh retweeted
Little boy is fitted with his first prosthetic leg and immediately proceeds to walk 💪😭
WOW! This is almost unbearably sweet. The look on the child's face is absolutely priceless. ❤️
Valerie Baadh retweeted
For to encourage kids to get outside, gift a copy of @MrsTornetto 's CHALK THE WALK alongside chalk or other outdoor toys! Links to these and more at: tinyurl.com/mr4aunh2
Valerie Baadh retweeted
The new Huberman Lab episode is out: Master the Creative Process | Twyla Tharp (@TharpTwyla)
0:00 Twyla Tharp
3:28 Focus & Creative Work, Tool: “Spine” of Creative Work
6:22 Creator & Audience Dynamic; Intention, Finances
11:57 Early vs Late Works, Learning & Selectivity throughout Career
15:59 Sponsors: Our Place & Eight Sleep
19:09 “Cubby-Holing”, Career Change & Reputation
21:48 Creator Community & Selectivity; Success & Useful Failure
27:42 Work Process, Schedule; Selecting Dancers, Supporting the Arts, Expectations
32:36 Successful Performance; Beauty, Arts Compensation
36:22 Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ballet & Invention; Philip Glass, Minimalism
43:18 Knowledge vs Instinct, Taste; Avant Garde; Classical Training
47:05 Kirov Ballet, Kids, Uniformity; Body Types
52:13 Sponsor: AG1
53:36 Movement, Body Frequency, Power
1:00:18 Creative Process, Spine; Idea, Habit
1:04:15 Rituals, Gym, Discipline; Farming, Quaker & Community; Communication
1:12:16 Communication, Signaling & Distance; Feeling Emotion
1:18:11 Boxing, Strength Training
1:21:41 Sponsors: LMNT
1:23:01 Ballet Barre Work, Fundamentals
1:29:09 Body’s Knowledge, Honoring the Body, Kids & Movement
1:35:42 High Standards & Childhood; Wordlessness & Movement, Twins
1:41:31 Translator, Objectivity; Critics, Creator Honesty
1:46:50 Sponsor: Mateina
1:47:50 Evolution & Learning; Amadeus Film & Research
1:53:53 Medicine, Keto Diet; Ballet Training & Performance, Desire
2:00:50 Young Dancers & Competition, Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Reward, Hard Work
2:08:47 Tool: “The Box”; Ritual, Practice vs Habit; Honorary Degrees
2:13:37 Tool: Idea “Scratching”; Movement & Longevity, Apprentice
2:19:46 Aging & Less Movement, Fearlessness; Taking Up Space, Names
2:25:42 Acknowledgements
2:27:18 Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter
Includes paid partnerships.
Valerie Baadh retweeted
I keep this on my desktop: “Words are innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across the incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they’re no good anymore.
“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.”
Tom Stoppard
