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Age: 39
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 

Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
Come see The Oracle featuring Sashi of Ascend Tribal and Raine of Atash Maya at El Camino College in Torrance October 24th, 2009!!!!!!! Two forces of insane joined into one fucking awesome show! You are an idiot to miss this! Muaahahahhahahahahha!


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Monday, September 07, 2009 

Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
NOOOOOOOO this is not Airplane Asanas Part II of the Mile High Club....er I mean Mile High Yoga Club! It's the result of doing the Airplane Asanas so that when I arrived on tour in New Zealand it was on! Check out some of the footage:






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Monday, September 07, 2009 

Current mood:  silly
Category: Automotive
Yeah that's what I said! Ok seriously, or as serious as you'll get outta me, I've been traveling on long long long flights for some time now and have totally perfected the art of doing yoga in an airline bathroom. But wait, paper towels are involved! Ok, so how many of you have been on a very long plane ride and find that just walking around the plane doesn't do it for you? How rude of them not to set up a "stretching" area for the passengers don't you think? And since you aren't one to do a down dog in the isle (ha that might get you a membership in the original Mile High Club but that's not what we're talking about here) what the hell do you do to not have to be carried off the plane at your final destination as a cramped up pretzel...yoga in the teenie tiny airplane bathroom of course!

Ok so lets go over how to do some of these poses in the air. First we'll have to talk about the preparatory activities for a successful airplane yoga practice. Taking the oh so soft paper towels provided by the airline, strategically lay them out on the floor without touching the floor. If one needs to be moved into place, use your foot. Make sure that your hair is tied up onto your  head if you have anything but a very sexy butchy short haircut. Don't think a  common pony tail will suffice as once you do any type of inverted pose your hair will meet with a gross demise aye? Lastly, go to the bathroom first then make sure the toilet seat is closed (duh!).

Let's start with Uttanasana (Standing Forward Bend) from mountain pose place your hands on your hips. Move the tailbone and hips back slightly as the body leans forward. Crown of the head facing the floor. Hold onto elbows as I'm sure that you will not want to place them on the ground! This stretch is good for stretching the hips, hamstrings, and calves which have shortened and tensed from sitting so long in those crappy seats, as well as massages internal organs and improves digestion which is helpful when having to eat yummy airplane food and $10 bags of chips. Contraindications would be if the plane hits turbulence while you are inverted so choose your timing well. You know, like when you count seconds between thunder strikes to see how far away it is? Does that really work btw?

Next you can try Eka Pada Rajakapotasana or Pigeon pose  with the airplane variation of doing it kind of standing! Man, those bathrooms are so small even for the Mile High Clubbers oh yeah but we're not talking about that but you will be more flexible but oh ehem yeah...ok so taking another paper towel and wrapping it around your foot, lift your knee to your groin and grab your ankle with your opposite hand and lift your ankle in line with your woo hoo. Lean yourself forward until your leg is resting on the wall behind the toilet.You are now in kinda standing pigeon pose!  This will help stretch the thighs, groins, back, and psoas which is totally cramped up from fake out seat leaning back bullshit and since you've tried to pull your knees up to some other kind of sleeping position on your seat as you drool away into sleeping on a plane yeah right mode this move can be helpful. Contraindications: hitting the toilet flush button with your knee and scaring the crap out of yourself since the flush sounds like the it's created a worm hole in the space time continuum in the bathroom you're in!

Ok one more for now Utkatasana or Chair Pose. So I know you're thinking, didn't I just do that when I went to the bathroom for real since I refused to sit on the seat but had my arms braced against the wall in front of me so I didn't fall? Ok yeah ya kind did but this time, keep your pants up and the toilet lid down, bring your right knee up and grab your right ankle with your left hand, wrap a paper towel around the bottom of your shoe and place your foot above your left knee, exhale and bend your knees, trying to take the thigh of your left leg as nearly parallel to the floor as possible. The knee will project out over the feet, and the torso will lean slightly forward over the thigh until the front torso forms approximately a right angle with the top of the thigh. Reverse and complete on the other foot.  The benefits of this move include strengthening the ankles, thighs, calves, and spine, stretching shoulders and chest, stimulating the abdominal organs, diaphragm, and heart which is helpful when attempting to deal with the stress of screaming at the top of their lungs babies crying on planes two rows in front of you and relieving the slouching position you have from trying to hide from the 5 year old in front of you who won't stop turning around in his seat and throwing his toys at you to pick up while his freakin parent does absol-fucking-lutely nothing!!!! Trust me, it works!

And so this concludes Airplane Asanas Part I brought to you by the Mile High Yoga Club which only has one member, me....for now. Interested in joining? Please submit your membership application in the form of an asana converted into airplane mode with much humor and non-seriousness and respond directly to this blog.

Namaste aye?
Muahahahahahahahhah...Sashi
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Saturday, July 04, 2009 
I am so excited to announce that my Dark Fusion Bellydance Instructional Dvd is now available on Amazon.com!

It is a bit of a challenge learning all the ins and outs of amazon so please note that even though it says it is out of stock it is available so you can purchase now!!

Also it is formated for overseas customers.

Here is the link:

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Fusion-Bellydance-Ascend-Tribal/dp/B002BS5Z4A/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1246748776&sr=1-2
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 
Tribal Fest is like summer camp for bellydancers!
 
OMG I love Bones the TV series and it’s totally Lacey’s fault! Ha ha…yeah so I’m having this major love affair with Netflix and the last 4 seasons of Bones! That’s what I watched on my personal DVD player all the way up from down under the Orange Cutain to Sebastopol for the 9th Tribal Fest put on by Kajira of Black Sheep Bellydance and her lovely camel, er I mean husband Chuck (hee hee, he won’t get mad at me for saying that cause every significant other of a bellydancer is a camel by default right? Right!) Ok so we got there and the weather was so nice. A cool breeze was blowing… it was a cool 80ish degrees so my little pea-sized brain decided to assume that the entire weekend might be that cool and comfortable. Um hmmm, yeah no! What the hell was I thinking? It’s NEVER that cool up in Sebastopol during the Tribal Fest weekend! Holy crap! It ended up being soooo hot –like usual. Ha! But in perspective, it smelled much better than last year! You see someone had just recently laid fertilizer right before Tribal Fest last year and let’s just say it was even hotter than this year so yup it smelled! But seriously, no matter what glitch it is still the best freakin festival evar! Why? Cuz it’s the original, longest running tribal festival and the place where many of us got our starts. I debuted my bellydance version of my pierced wings piece at TF 06! Yup! Ok so back to Thursday. So I taught my Mind the Requisitioning choreography class that evening in the thankfully air conditioned Youth Annex. Loved it! I had many familiar and new faces in class and we had a great time knocking out that chorography. Yeah, I kicked their asses but you know they loved it! So, Friday was all Gothfia all day! Chaos central was Tempest’s vending space. And there the Gothfia, perched upon their posts watched (had a perfect view of the stage), listened and sold our wares. It was always funny when a “Gothic Bellydancer” was announced that people would look over at us (Temepst, Asharah and moi). Friday’s dance festivities were opened up by Asharah, Tempest and Anaar doing the opening ritual. It was a great way to bring the energies into the space and bring the dance to its fruition. The devilish Miss Tempest also did her Steampunk piece with her fricken cutest evar curls “With a crew of drunken pilots, we're the only Airship Pirates!” Loved it! Suhalia and her crew wrapped up the night and I got to see my long lost pal Brittany Lelah do her chair piece with the troupe! Rad!
 
Ok so then Saturday it was even hotter and shopping was soooo hard because of that but I didn’t care…muahahahahah! Shiney things... Ok but Dood! Asharah danced to a live cellist…so yummy, and Fat Chance…ahhhh Fat Chance…Kajira…sigh…I love that woman!!!!....Samantha Rigg’s piece was freakin hilarious and right out of Bollywood, Rach and Zoe kicked ass and Miss Jill Parker melted everyone in the room with her sexy hotness…and me…hee hee hee…well I danced to Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”! Ironic, aint it? Mmmhmmmm… muahahahahahahah!  Video will be posted on youtube within the week! Garsh the rest is a blur. I know I’m forgetting peeps and stuff…can’t blame that on any altering substances…just the heat…but man, Tribal Fest is so my freakin favorite festival…I already said it’s like summer camp but really, it is. I get to see my friends from all over the world every year….love it! Ok, I’m done babbling about TF 09…the end for now…k….bye…
 
 
Gothla…musings of a maniac
 
OMG I forgot to blog about Gothla….why, because I was crazy running it! This is what I saw….I think…..Lacey’s big beautiful eyes, Asharah’s butt, Raine riding Treavor, Shakra laughing, Raine sprinkling glitter on Treavor’s naked chest before introducing me for the gala show and saying “I love boys who sparkle”, getting dragged behind the Nyx Fusion booth, shinney things at Tribal Bazaar, Annar’s stuff I didn’t enough time to look at, Jill Tracey, a piano, Princess’s laugh, Leeeeeeeeeeeeee Ali and the Motif, dark mistress Callisto and the sai, Chaaaarrrllllieeeeee, Geisha Moth’s see through poofy stuff, Tempest being interviewed for the LA Weekely online, helping the Unextraordinary Gentlemen find the ir way from the parking lot to the festival -yeah we know peeps- we’re working on making it all easier and food food food….XO!...Yani and the vendors…the white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only…wait no that’s at the airport ok…looking at all the pretty people,  Black Lotus…Christine…wanting to hide under the table at that booth and rifle thru all the pretties, Sooz making silly faces, seeing Laurie Miller for only a sec as uber kick ass stage manager, being asked 10, 000 questions and freaking loving every single bit of it. Dood, I seriously didn’t know I could operate at that speed. Ha ha! I should finally get the footage of my piece from the Gothla Gala show up on youtube up in about a week. I'll let you know when I do!!!
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 
Available for viewing at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiiX0PT9pok
To order/paypal contact us at ascendtribaldanceproductions@yahoo.com
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Sunday, April 19, 2009 

It's finally here!

Yessssssssssssss, my instructional DVD

is ready for purchase!

For ordering information contact us at

ascendtribaldanceproductions@yahoo.com and

we'll get you all the deets.

Currently we will accepting orders directly

(Paypal) but soon there will be the opportunity

to order via my website at

ascendtribaldance.com and on Amazon.com. 

Keep in mind though that ordering directly

though me or my website is discounted.

AND if you are enrolled in my class at Tribal

Fest and purchase it from me there,

you will also receive a discount!

Muahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaah!

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Monday, January 19, 2009 

Muahahahahahahahahah! Made you look!

See, I don't care what gender you are...it's all about the foreplay...and lots of it...now, speaking of foreplay....your evil Mistress Sashi has quite a good deal of foreplay in mind for you...

For those of you that just can't wait until Gothla 09 your foreplay wishes have come true in the form of the sensual movement that is

Mistress Sashi and Ascend Tribal

Madame Raine

Sabrina Fox

Tribal Sooz and her grrlz

Edenia

 and more

at Club Skandal in Riverside, California January 31st, 2009.

You don't want to miss this! There might even be a Trevor sighting in there somewhere as well...Talk about foreplay!

Stay tuned...more foreplay in February...muahahahahahahahahahaha!  

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Friday, October 03, 2008 

We are now accepting volunteers to help with the

Gothic Bellydance World Domination movement conference aka Gothla US: The Divining 2009 brought to you by none other than THE GOTHFIA!

Join us or die!!!!!!!

Muahahahahahha!

No matter how near or far you are from Gound Gothla-you can be utilized! Resistance is futile!

Contact Cynthia at

volunteer@gothla.us

 NOW people! I say JUMP you say HOW HI? I say knees....you say.....muahahhahhahahha!

 

It's so on!

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 
I will be haunting your every move in the following workshops, shows and otherwise....Beware!

May 14-18th 2008: Tribal Fest in Sebastopol, California
www.blacksheepbellydance.com

June 8th, 2008: The Chamber Gothic Industrial Club 8 year anniversary party   http://www.myspace.com/thechamber_bravo

July 17-19, 2008: Gothla United Kingdom
http://www.gothla.co.uk/

July 25th-30th, 2008:
Dillenburg, Hanover & Dusseldorf, Germany
http://www.forum.orientalika.de/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1110

August 1st-3rd, 2008: El Paso, Texas
http://www.scimitarbellydance.com/enchanteddarkness/gala.html

October 10th-12th, 2008
Gothenberg, Sweden
http://www.gothla.se/gothlaSE.htm

Your town is next!

Muahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahah!


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