19-25 March 2024
a.k.a. Day 12-18 of #dailybonjoviyoga
I did 38 minutes of Daily Bon Jovi Yoga, with
🎶📀 1984
1⃣Bon Jovi- Bon Jovi album💘
47 minutes with
🎶📀Bon Jovi (1985) 🌋Fahrenheit🔥
44 minutes with
🎶📀Bon Jovi (1986)
🚧Slippery When Wet album🚧
40 minutes with
🎶📀Bon Jovi (2015)
🌉🔥Burning Bridges📦
And 48 minutes with
🎶📀Bon Jovi (2020)
🌎2020😷
Which means from the 7 days I did yoga on five.
Progress!
Last time I wrote you, I hit three out of seven.
“Not even halfway there,” I sulked, referencing of course the lyrics of Livin’ on a Prayer.
But this week your girl has clearly picked up the pace and I would even say I am on fire, because I came up with a SYSTEM! Oh…. I forgot how much I love a good system, don’t you?
Now I wasn’t able to execute it fully, yet. It was a work-in-progress, that I didn’t even know I was creating until it was almost finished, and all it needed was me filling in a few blank spots.
But I now have 7 days of yoga, all mapped out, with my publicly available schedules, as I promised at the beginning this project would not have materials that I have not shared online; And I teamed them up with Bon Jovi’s top 7 shortest studio albums.
So I have a lineup of 7 Bon Jovi albums with 7 schedules.
And either I will stick to this for a few months and then change it as a whole, or perhaps introduce some longer albums on days I have more time; I don’t know yet.
I do know I’m pushing all live discs, the 2004 box set, “disc 2 extras”, and definitely all their greatest hits albums all the way to the back. I mean we have 365 days! Who knows what deviance is called for at later stages. 😉
Now without further ado, here is the first 7 Day Bundle of #dailybonjoviyoga
This is almost like a “cheat day”; Only restorative poses, and you will probably still have worked through them before you would have to flip your vinyl record to the other side.
Yoga always ends with a long relaxation, so you could just make it an XXL one, or alternatively add in some extra poses.
It’s YOUR cheat day!
🎶📀Bon Jovi (1985) 🌋Fahrenheit🔥
47:10 Yoga Miracles from the otherwise still not published booklet/blog post The 9 Steps of Yoga (but I’ll get to finishing the booklet somewhere these 365 days, that’s for sure!).
Yoga Miracles is definitely somewhat of an acquired taste, but since I forced myself to think along the lines of “In a post-apocalyptic world; What would people NEED to know about yoga?” You can understand I could not be taking half measures here.
If my The 9 Steps of Yoga is the only yoga book surviving our civilization, it better be good, right? And this series works miracles.
So I don’t know about you, but I think last week was absolutely 🔥lit🔥, having all these results.
Five yoga sessions in 7 days AND an apocalypse-proof framework that I already absolute adore doing yoga with.
I’ll also be picking up making yoga videos for YouTube channel (including always a nice Life lessons in Bon Jovi songs video, to balance it out!) to support this series.
So subscribe there if you haven’t already.
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13+14+16 March 2024
a.k.a. Day 6,7 and 9 of 365 days of #dailybonjoviyoga
I did 47 minutes of Daily Bon Jovi Yoga, with
🎶📀Bon Jovi (1992 bonus cd)
Live cd 2 from 🛐 Keep the Faith album✝️
and 48 minutes with
🎶📀Jon Bon Jovi (1990) 🏜️Blaze of Glory album🏍️🦅🏜️🌵
and 43 minutes with
🎶📀Bon Jovi (1986)
🚧Slippery When Wet album🚧
Despite this challenge, I missed my Daily Bon Jovi Yoga practice at Monday 11 March, Tuesday 12, Friday 15th and Sunday 17 March (day 10).
Meaning that from day 4 to day 10, I only did yoga 3 days out of 7 days.
That is not even halfway there.
But the good news definitely is, I am actually loving it. And more importantly, I knew it would be incredibly difficult to fit into my schedule. That was the whole point! So I’m on track, in that respect.
Because more than doing #dailybonjoviyoga, I desire the life designed around doing Daily Bon Jovi Yoga. I know it’s going to require drastic changes, and these have not been implemented yet, obviously.
But I’m definitely getting there, we’ll make it I swear.
. “Whoa, we’re half way there
Whoa oh, livin’ on a prayer
Take my hand, we’ll make it, I swear
Whoa oh, livin’ on a prayer”
The next episode will be written
Wednesday 20 March CET, at the earliest
featuring day 11 and 12 of
365 days of #dailybonjoviyoga
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9+10 March 2024
a.k.a. Day 2 and 3 of 365 days of #dailybonjoviyoga
I did 40 minutes of Daily Bon Jovi Yoga, with
🎶📀Bon Jovi
🌉🔥Burning Bridges (2015)📦
and
70 minutes
🎶📀Bon Jovi
🏚️This House Is Not For Sale (2016)🙈
Why I chose these albums:
On Saturday I chose Burning Bridges because I was feeling so badly, and the vibe of Burning Bridges was the closest I could find to saying:
“Just lost two months and possibly a handful of relationships (among which ones that will be missed) on a project I dropped like a hot potato today.”
In 2015, being contractually obliged to deliver an album, Jon had thrown in the audio files in a brown paper bag (hence the emoji of a brown paper box, the closest I could find!)
And he intended that to be the last thing he ever did for the record company.
Burning Bridges was the album born under the most bleak of circumstances.
And on Sunday I chose its follow-up This House Is Not For Sale, which was released by the same record company.
I don’t know exactly how it worked, because the labels appear differently, but it was a mother-daughter company, kind of a change. It was a happy ending, and Bon Jovi did not change companies.
I also chose This House Is Not For Sale, because I had time for a longer practice and I only own this album in an extended version.
God Bless This Mess
👩🏼💻 the day 2+3 story
. The duo Burning Bridges (2015) and This House Is Not For Sale (2016) – an album followed by a tour with the same name that would run from 2016 to 2019- symbolize both the all-time low of Jon Bon Jovi dropping of the Burning Bridges album with the record company, as well as the story of the band’s resurrection with This House Is Not For Sale.
On Saturday I chose the album Burning Bridges (2015) because I too, was at my 2024 low point. Not counting January first, when I made actual pictures of my crying run-mascara raccoon face, so that I would remember to never let it get to this again! (which it did not)
But I also laid out 2016’s This House Is Not For Sale for Sunday, hoping I too, would have a resurrection that would last me for years to come!
It did not disappoint.
Because although it had been more wishful thinking than trusting I would shift into a more positive mindset, that is exactly what happened today.
Sacrificing a good part of the night to intense feelings of restlessness and doom, feelings which could not be pinpointed to having an exact cause, the night also brought me new insights into ( I kid you not) the nature of reality. The why, of my final four years, six years maybe even seven years, feeling like a slippery slope of contemporary doom.
A feeling of something having its fangs in me that is not one of the older demons (of which I have at least one). A foe a younger me has never needed to face, and probably because of that, one I have rarely named, nor even tried to express what it was.
The good news is: Last night I found out what it is, that has been disrupting my life from the deepest layers, messing with my sense of reality.
The bad news is: It is something so common, now in the modern world, it will be hard to live without. In particular because I am a writer, and consider myself a contemporary writer too. Not a writer of novels or non-fiction which would be outdated the moment they hit the shelves.
In my opinion, a contemporary writer, is a blogger.
And, also in my opinion, my reality, your reality, everyone’s reality but some no doubt will be more prone to its flaws than others, has gotten severely disturbed, creating not one but three realities; The reality of the “real world”, the part that has not changed since the 20th century. And the two new realities, the Bee Hive (email, Facebook, Whatsapp) and the Matrix (internet at large, Twitter, YouTube and so on)
I spent the best part of my day writing about these worlds. Writing, about the two new levels of the Bee Hive and the Matrix. And how having become aware is in my opinion the first step, to full recovery.
If you would like to learn more, you can read my article here:
And I also went out for a celebration today, in the real world, and did not make any photos because I did not want to take anything away from the real world experience. I had gifted this experience to someone, and taking a picture even before they arrived or after we had parted, no longer felt right. The real world felt more sacred than ever.
Now of course, it is not a miracle cure, realizing there are three worlds. All the pain of the past weeks, of this whole year even ever since the first of January- it is not gone. And it’s almost as if I am more aware that the toughest world really is, the real one.
There is a reason we are so eager to disappear into all these extra communication devices. The real world, reality, it bites. More often than not, I feel social interaction is like claws going through my aura! It feels so intense, so painful. And it seems like ever since the pandemic it has gotten worse. Like I feel it more intensely, like my guard no longer functions.
So did I feel perfect today? No. Am I healed, fully confident I am going to crush it at any layer, of reality? The real world, the bee hive, the matrix? No.
But I was feeling much better this Sunday, than I was Saturday. It was literally, a world of difference.
And the good news was, that painful as it still was, I was feeling it all, in the real world. Old-fashioned, 20th century, and terribly messy.
. “I must confess, I’ve lived, I’ve died God bless this mess, this mess is mine”
Saturday (the short, burned out practice)
I used schedules 7. Lying Down, Supine Poses
8. Lying Butterfly or Restorative Yoga with Props
And did a relaxation during the final two songs I’m Your man (9) and Burning Bridges (10), a very funny breakup song with the record company.
Sunday, the XL album practice I used schedules 1. Opening Sequence 2. Balance Poses 3.Standing Poses 7. Lying Down, Supine Poses
And did a relaxation during the final three songs We Don’t Run (15), a song originally featured on Burning Bridges!, I Will Drive You Home (16) and Goodnight New York (17)
The next episode will be written
Tuesday night 12 March CET, at the earliest
featuring day 4 and 5 of
365 days of #dailybonjoviyoga
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8 March 2024
a.k.a. Day 1 of 365 days of #dailybonjoviyoga
I did 51 minutes of Daily Bon Jovi Yoga, with
🎶📀Bon Jovi
💓What About Now album🗡️🌹
released 8 March 2013
Why I chose this album: Because it was released on this day, 11 years ago.
Does anybody want what’s left of me?
👩🏼💻 the day 1 story
. This year long #dailybonjoviyoga challenge is inspired by the 2009 movie “Julie and Julia”, which is one of the very few 21st century movies I actually bothered to watch multiple times in the past five, six years or so. And in all probability it’s not a usual suspect. I mean you could have just guessed I’ve seen “Bohemian Rhapsody” over a dozen times, yeah? And compared to “Bohemian Rhapsody” the 2009 Nora Ephron movie does look almost fragile.
The movie is based on two true stories; That of a famous American cook Julia Child, who brought French cuisine to America. And of Julie Powell who embarked on her 365 day challenge in August 2002, when she vowed to cook herself through Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, and blog about it. It were the earliest days of blogging culture on internet! And of course she got a book deal after she finished her accomplishment.
The movie vividly shows the impossibility of such an intense cooking challenge, combining it with a fulltime job. To do that AND to write about it? Julie’s accomplishment was a tour de force.
But I also love the movie for its old-fashioned blogging software. It is such a trip down memory lane, and it makes me nostalgic for not having been one of those earliest of bloggers. Anything up to 2009 would have counted, in my opinion! But I did not get a blog until 2010.
Julie starts the challenge because she is at her wits end; After a promising start, her career has flatlined, and she’s failed in all her attempts to write a book and get published. The challenge gives her something to do, a reason to rush home and do something constructive and exciting with her spare-time.
But of course, with such a brittle foundation, a meltdown is just one dish ending on her kitchen floor or in the sink, away!
And that is exactly how I feel too.
Although my challenge is in NO WAY, as vast and full-on as Julie Powell cooking herself through Julia’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking; And our 2024 blogging software is an easy breeze compared to 2002; I have no idea how strong my foundations currently are, and if their weak points accidentally coincide with going on a daily yoga blogging challenge.
What I did do, to mimic Powell’s journey, is set rules around when I can do yoga, and when I can blog.
Although I work as an independent, I will stick to the hours Julie Powell had for her project!
So on weekdays that means I will be writing or doing yoga AM (before Julie’s worktime), or after 7 PM (after her worktime). This is rule number one, let’s call it “The Worktime Rule”:
The challenge can only be done outside office hours.
And although I will do daily yoga, if just for half an hour, at night; I will preference sleep over writing. So the blogs will not be daily, but the yoga will. This is “The Daily Yoga Rule”:
I will do yoga every day, but not blog every day.
Like Julie’s dishes, the yoga sessions will then be combined to one post.
On day one I felt * looks at notes * scared, excited and curious, before I started my first yoga practice for this challenge. It felt important, that I had chosen. “Something” was being done about feeling stuck, just like Julie had felt stuck when she started her challenge. She didn’t know what to do about it, and figured something, something big and action oriented, something that would fill her life with something other than worrying about work; Was better than doing nothing.
I loved the yoga and my relaxation the final songs, was so deep. It was like I was paralyzed, that’s how tired my body was. But my mind was awake and clear.
And I remembered the lyric that had struck a chord, and that symbolized the thin layer between hope and realizing how vulnerable the new path still was. The lyric that illustrated that this year of #dailybonjoviyoga was not a done deal. Too much had happened, things I was unsure I would ever heal from.
“I ain’t checking out I still got my dreams Does anybody want what’s left of me”
What’s Left of Me, Bon Jovi
. ~Rock Star Suzy
The Yoga of Friday March 8, 2024
Here are the manual and the schedules I used for this practice.
Throughout this entire year I will only be using free resources.
I used schedules
1. Opening sequence
4. Transition poses
5. Backbends
and
6. Seated forward bends and twists I did a relaxation during the final two songs,
Room at the End of the World (11) and The Fighter (12)
See you tomorrow, for another day of #dailybonjoviyoga
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Things we do every day will never have the same potency to be as unforgettable as unplanned surprises, once in a lifetime opportunities, or as concerts we’ve bought tickets to six to eighteen months in advance.
And this fact is one of the main reasons why ever since 2019, I’ve been toying with this concept of “Rock Star Yoga”; A yoga to support peak performances, not a daily grind.
A yoga to train your body and mind to be able to not just sustain high voltage energies; But to create them.
To be able to move the energy of a room, of another person, or a 60.000 people crowd, by little more than your presence.
To be the embodiment of this creative force, that has the power to change lives.
Starting with your own.
So when you step on the mat today, yes, you can drop your expectations of it being as good, as seductive and as compelling as the highlights of your life. But that is what you are training for!
Go all in on your yoga, even though it will require more effort. Make it count! So that that when the next legendary experience comes along; You, are ready.
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👩🏼💻 create your own#dailybonjoviyoga
I practice #dailybonjoviyoga, and you can create your own too!
In January 2024, after three years of creating several setups and systems to do “Bon Jovi yoga” or “Rock Star Yoga”;
After creating two playlists on my YouTube with all Bon Jovi concert recordings between 1983 and 1996, and keeping them updated to the best of my ability (which is not great!);
And after writing over 50 reviews and stories inspired by those concerts, ALL on THIS blog?
I thought maybe, just maybe, it was a good idea, to start doing exactly what I said this blog would be about;
Doing yoga to Bon Jovi music every day.
And write about it.
You can follow my #dailybonjoviyoga on my social media & follow this blog for the stories
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Title: “Rock Star”
or “Rock Star yoga/ business/ writer”
artists: Suzanne Beenackers, little bear Puux art form: writing + YouTube videos
leg 1: earliest expressions, mixed work, July 2019 – March 2022
leg 2: The Void April 2022 – January 2023
leg 3: Storytelling 17 January 2023 –
You can find my books The Little Mistress Who Turned Into A Baby Koala A Boyfriend Like Jon Bongiovi and White Tigress Yoga Workbook
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The last couple of days, I have known that I need to start integrating part of who I am, into my work as a yoga teacher, a mentor, but more than anything; In my work as a writer. Which is ultimately what this blog will be; Writing about yoga related topics.
And when I say “yoga related” I mean that in the broadest, most “meta” sense of the word! Because I will reboot my YouTube (yoga) channel to make videos about Bon Jovi related topics, but I will also be sharing my new, international, yoga system there.
So anything that is related to yoga in the narrow (as far as you can call a whole new system narrow!), practical sense of the word, will be coming soon to myEnglish YouTube
Leaving this practice blog for the meta-stuff.
And maybe it is because I shifted the purpose of this blog just last week – the posts about Bon Jovi concerts have moved to theRock Star Writerblog – but something in me finds this blog the most inviting, for what you could see as a confession.
Something I have been keeping from my work here, and justifiably so, because the story wasn’t finished. As much as I knew there was something in there that was extremely relevant to share, that my biggest message was buried somewhere behind this secret second life I lived; I didn’t know how to tell the story without endangering myself by objectifying myself, or by selling myself short. Without risking having to defend myself, before understanding the point I was to bring across.
The reason I can share this now, is because the story has ended.
And because I understand a large part of it.
Enough to take the risk, and understanding that it is not just my story. There is a bigger lesson here.
The story is that I was a secret mistress for nine years. In retrospect this was the most important decision of my life to have said Yes to.
If I had said No, which I think we can all agree would have been the most logical choice;
But then I would not have lived a purposeful life.
“He”, was The Call To Adventure, as it is known in The Hero’s Journey from Joseph Campbell.
And just like in that book, I did initially refuse (step 2 “Refusing the Call”). Not to the intimacy as such, but I expected the rest of the relationship to follow. When it didn’t, our entire first half year, was one big refusal to the call, of what he was offering; The Adventure I had been so dearly lacking, in all my steady relationships. The very reason, I had broken up with my long-term boyfriend.
And perhaps the reason I stayed was also because part of me recognized The Call, in this situation. That despite this being different from a book I bought in 2007, called White Tigress by Hsi Lai, and despite me not practicing any of specific techniques in the book, nor understanding the spiritual background;
It was the essence, that was the same.
The essence of a conscious woman taking ownership over her own sexual choices.
So perhaps, in those first 6 months, even though the path came in an entirely different way than I had anticipated, I did recognize the similarities to; The path of the White Tigress. (orginal book 2001) Which was the only path I had found for a (spiritual) solitary or single lifestyle. Although having that many lovers, or being that transactional about sex did not appeal to me, what did appeal to me was that the book didn’t treat being a sexually active single, as the pre-work for a real relationship or settling down. Here, it was the end-game. A lifestyle.
Because the path of the mistress was of course something entirely different, and it had not been my choice, it took “balls” for lack of a more feminine word, to step into this. And even when I did, I wasn’t aware things like this can last this long. That it would be nine years, before I would come out on the other end. Transformed. A new woman.
And when I look at his life now, it’s like I was never there. Perhaps in a sense, I wasn’t.
So this blogpost seems to come out top-down, or inside out!
As if the ending comes first, before I can give context so you can relate or understand.
Nothing I can do about it, but what I can do, is tell you the context now.
Why this unconventional relationship, was so important to me.
And even;
Inevitable.
To understand what happened, why my choice to “waste” 9 years, and still stand behind it even now that it has ended, we need to go back to my teens; I have always been interested in sex and boys.
My walls were covered with Jon Bon Jovi posters, until I realized that they had to go because if boys would visit my bedroom, I could not have another man so prominent, in my life. So I loved Jon Bon Jovi, and rock music, but I was also pretty successful in my love life. I only had three boyfriends throughout my entire teens, but none of them were from the school I visited, nor from the town where I lived.
They were interesting, intelligent, charming boys, and the last one was twenty or twenty-one, when I was 17, so he had added the advantage of being interesting because he was older. And he had his own place, so we now only had my parents to “worry about”. No one was gatekeeping his sexuality.
In my twenties I fell in love with the fourth man, a university peer, and we stayed together for over 16 years, including 2 years when we lived as friends, as we had already split up.
The reason for this split was because, for reasons I will not reveal here, I had not been able to experiment with sex or relationships. I had never chosen to be in a steady committed relationship, but it had been the only one I could stand, without getting serious mental health issues. So although I had really enjoyed my long-term relationships, and consider myself “good” or even “impeccable” at them!; I knew the choice for them had been a forced one.
I had never once dreamed of marriage and children, and the most romantic thing I know I ever thought, because I wrote it down at the time, was that I thought it would be so cool to stay together for such a long time, that it all dies out, and you no longer passionately long for each other.
But I had always been unconventional.
From those first four boyfriends, I had until I was in my early 30s; The one who had been seeing other girls, and who had been the most difficult to deal with, to this day holds a soft-spot in my heart. Although the other three had all been monogamous, I had never pursued it, and had been very aware “competition” excited me.
So in my early 30s our relationship stranded, and my half of it was because I knew I needed to explore other relationship forms, fall in love with new men, plural, and just figure things out. That’s when in 2007, I bought the Hsi Lai book, White Tigress, and let myself be inspired by it. Not the techniques, but the idea itself, of being a White Tigress, resonated with me.
For the first 8 years I dated different men, including getting my heart broken in the first two years. Badly. Yet I knew I liked being single way more than being in a relationship, but I did not have a coherent image or identity of what I was or even why. In a sense the first 8 years I had not come much further than the February in 2007 when I had bought that book. But in 2014 I was still having too much fun, to care about such details.
And then late 2014, I met my lover and everything changed.
It was an intense period, it was the first time I really had to decide; “Am I really going to do this?!”
And then I thought “No!” but did “Yes”. Telling myself, he’d change. That one day there’d be an Us;
An Us that never came.
Until 2024 came, and suddenly I am alone. Nine years later.
And last week it suddenly hit me, the synchronicity of it; The full training of a White Tigress, which involves multiple partners, but very often (if she’s lucky!) also involves a male partner called “A Jade Dragon”; A spiritual practitioner, who will initiate and guide her. The full education is all in secret and it lasts 9 years.
It was then, that I knew it was done. Like a universal power or fate, had let it last exactly for the duration it was destined to have.
It was complete.
Not only had my instincts had been right, that it had not been 9 wasted years. Not in my case!
But that I had also been given, the experience, the adventure, and the education I had longed for, and had set out to have, in 2007, when I picked up that book.
I was given the teachings of the White Tigress, in a form that involved big emotions, and pure passion. Just like I had felt them from the moment I had pinned my first Jon Bon Jovi poster to the wall.
By a man who had been available to be my Jade Dragon. Nothing more. But certainly, nothing less.
In January 2024, after three years of creating several setups and systems to do “Bon Jovi yoga” or “Rock Star Yoga”;
After creating two playlists on my YouTube with all Bon Jovi concert recordings between 1983 and 1996, and keeping them updated to the best of my ability (which is not great!);
And after writing over 50 reviews and stories inspired by those concerts, ALL on THIS blog?
I thought maybe, just maybe, it was a good idea, to start doing exactly what I said this blog would be about;
Doing yoga to Bon Jovi music every day.
And write about it.
Interested in Bon Jovi?
Definitely subscribe to my other blog! Rock Star Writer
That was it!
Thank you for reading my Daily Bon Jovi Yoga blog! Subscribe to get #dailybonjoviyoga in your mailbox. You can find the subscription button on this page, probably on the top right.
my business since February 2023:
Catacombe become the Rock Star you were born to be
Title: “Rock Star”
or “Rock Star yoga/ business/ writer”
artists: Suzanne Beenackers, little bear Puux art form: writing + YouTube videos
leg 1: earliest expressions, mixed work, July 2019 – March 2022
leg 2: The Void April 2022 – January 2023
leg 3: Storytelling 17 January 2023 –
You can find my books The Little Mistress Who Turned Into A Baby Koala A Boyfriend Like Jon Bongiovi and White Tigress Yoga Workbook
at the bottom of this page: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rockstarwriter
If you live in The Netherlands, Belgium or Germany, you can also order these books from me – just go to the bottom of this page: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rockstarwriter to check out which ones you want, and write me an email at s_beenackers@hotmail.com.
Payment is via PayPal or bank transfer.
Once you have found “the one”;
It is easy to tell why others were not The One, isn’t it?
Maybe they were aggressive, demanding, unreliable, and maybe they were not ambitious enough or boring.
What you first noticed was how you would be able to handle it on certain days, but not on others. Depending on how much energy you had to deal with them, but also depending on how deep the other person was exercising their right to this, what you considered, “flaw”. The one thing you were putting up with, that was becoming a bigger stain as time moved on.
Once you met The One, you realized you liked everything about them: The good and the so called bad. You could make jokes on moments like that, it would bring you two closer together, and you couldn’t imagine ever growing tired of being or living with this person.
That is how yoga should feel, and nothing less! You should be excited to get on your mat.
And if not;
Meet new yoga styles, teachers, take private classes asking help from a teacher to set up your personal yoga practice you can fall in love with.
And although I don’t think any of us will spend time on the mat, the way couples spend them in bed in their honeymoon period; Yes! There should be a honeymoon period, where all you can think about is your next session and you’re excited that you two click, and have found each other against all odds.
And once you have this, then you will understand what the length is of an ideal yoga session: The time you would take for The One, once you’ve made it to the bedroom.
Which is 30 minutes for a quickie, but otherwise I think 1 to 2 hours, including lying together in each other’s arms, before you end it. In yoga this is called “Savasana”, a long relaxation that typically lasts between 10 and 15 minutes.
So although a week of not leaving the bedroom may not happen, there definitely should be a honeymoon period, where yoga is the most fascinating wonderful thing. Where you and yoga have created a bubble, a sanctuary, that you can’t wait to visit every day.
In January 2024, after three years of creating several setups and systems to do “Bon Jovi yoga” or “Rock Star Yoga”;
After creating two playlists on my YouTube with all Bon Jovi concert recordings between 1983 and 1996, and keeping them updated to the best of my ability (which is not great!);
And after writing over 50 reviews and stories inspired by those concerts, ALL on THIS blog?
I thought maybe, just maybe, it was a good idea, to start doing exactly what I said this blog would be about;
Doing yoga to Bon Jovi music every day.
And write about it.
Interested in Bon Jovi?
Definitely subscribe to my other blog! Rock Star Writer
That was it!
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my business since February 2023:
Catacombe become the Rock Star you were born to be
Title: “Rock Star”
or “Rock Star yoga/ business/ writer”
artists: Suzanne Beenackers, little bear Puux art form: writing + YouTube videos
leg 1: earliest expressions, mixed work, July 2019 – March 2022
leg 2: The Void April 2022 – January 2023
leg 3: Storytelling 17 January 2023 –
You can find my books The Little Mistress Who Turned Into A Baby Koala A Boyfriend Like Jon Bongiovi and White Tigress Yoga Workbook
at the bottom of this page: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rockstarwriter
If you live in The Netherlands, Belgium or Germany, you can also order these books from me – just go to the bottom of this page: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rockstarwriter to check out which ones you want, and write me an email at s_beenackers@hotmail.com.
Payment is via PayPal or bank transfer.
When I wrote thevery first post for this blog, on 19th of March 2021, I promised this blog would be
“about my commitment to do daily yoga with music from Bon Jovi. Until the day I die.”
Which after three years of creating several setups and systems to do “Bon Jovi yoga” or “Rock Star Yoga”; After creating two playlists on my YouTube with all Bon Jovi concert recordings between 1983 and 1996, and keeping them updated to the best of my ability (which is not great!); And after writing over 50 reviews and stories inspired by those concerts, and ALL of those things here on THIS blog?
2021’s definition turned out to be far less watertight than I assumed, although I should have seen it coming. Because there are dark and murky waters running within me, best known under their euphemistic Sunday school name “creativity”; Messing with everything I do!
Bad news is they seriously undermine being someone who wants to visit her mat to do yoga every day. Quelle boring.
The good news of course that my Dark Side makes me a hell of a writer and creator!
Someone who’s ready to innovate yoga so that its message can travel into the 21st century and even the 22nd. Tying it into Bon Jovi, giving it wings and instructions who to look out for, increasing its chances of finding a recipient who will recognize this little yoga package, with Rock Star wings and a six-string on their back, as theirs: “Look what I found! It’s Rock Star Yoga!”
And the bad news obviously that there is no way of telling where this or any other blog of mine will go, or YouTube channel. But just like 3 years ago, what I can do, is tell you what my intentions are. And in this case, that includes telling you where the posts you used to read on this blog, will go.
New additions, new concerts for the Bon Jovi playlists will go straight onto myTwitter, Facebook, and Instagram. And if I write about a concert, or about something else Rock Star or Bon Jovi related, it will go onto the 2019 blog: Rock Star Writer On that blog, I will also repost our stories about Bon Jovi concerts, which are currently buried here, under, in and behind this yoga practice blog.
And then this blog will be what it was always meant to be: A blog about doing daily Bon Jovi yoga.
yoga 2: 🎶🎸💿 🇺🇸New Jersey album🫐🟦 by Bon Jovi
length: 57:30
schedule: Date Night With Wall
which is number 10 from the 52 schedules “Het Yogaboek van Liefdeseend” (free page)
I did the schedule to about two-thirds, the wide-seated forward bend from the 5th row.
In January 2024, after three years of creating several setups and systems to do “Bon Jovi yoga” or “Rock Star Yoga”;
After creating two playlists on my YouTube with all Bon Jovi concert recordings between 1983 and 1996, and keeping them updated to the best of my ability (which is not great!);
And after writing over 50 reviews and stories inspired by those concerts, ALL on THIS blog?
I thought maybe, just maybe, it was a good idea, to start doing exactly what I said this blog would be about;
Doing yoga to Bon Jovi music every day.
And write about it.
Interested in Bon Jovi?
Definitely subscribe to my other blog! Rock Star Writer
That was it!
Thank you for reading my Daily Bon Jovi Yoga blog! Subscribe to get #dailybonjoviyoga in your mailbox. You can find the subscription button on this page, probably on the top right.
my business since February 2023:
Catacombe become the Rock Star you were born to be
Title: “Rock Star”
or “Rock Star yoga/ business/ writer”
artists: Suzanne Beenackers, little bear Puux art form: writing + YouTube videos
leg 1: earliest expressions, mixed work, July 2019 – March 2022
leg 2: The Void April 2022 – January 2023
leg 3: Storytelling 17 January 2023 –
You can find my books The Little Mistress Who Turned Into A Baby Koala A Boyfriend Like Jon Bongiovi and White Tigress Yoga Workbook
at the bottom of this page: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rockstarwriter
If you live in The Netherlands, Belgium or Germany, you can also order these books from me – just go to the bottom of this page: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rockstarwriter to check out which ones you want, and write me an email at s_beenackers@hotmail.com.
Payment is via PayPal or bank transfer.
And if it wasn’t for the fact that Bon Jovi has done a pretty great job writing their own songs, you’d say they had lost their calling as a cover band, because this is Bon Jovi covering decades of the greatest hits; The world’s greatest singer-songwriters; Rock n’ rolls most infamous classics; And passionate tales of heartbreak and triumph that will leave no heart untouched!
There is also a faux Last Christmas on there, just for laughs. Except for those who were on the last day of Whamageddon, trying not to hear Last Christmas😅
This list is really, too good to be true. Bon Jovi has weaved in covers (Bang bang! introducing Show Through The Heart, 1985) right from their earliest of shows, and many of us would have spotted 1992’s With A Little Help From My Friends, even if I had not added years + locations to this setlist. Which I did!
I am guessing hAnD90 could not add the location and year, nor the band or artist of whom it was a cover (which I would have researched, if I had had two more hours) because YouTube severely caps the amount of characters you can use. But copy-pasting the setlist from the description list to this blog, miraculously preserved the time stamps!
🥳
Setlist: 01. Great Balls Of Fire, Sydney 2008 [0:00] 02. Rockin’ In The Free World, Osaka 2000 [2:20] 03. Baby What You Want Me To Do, Paris 1992 [8:12] 04. Bridge Over Troubled Water, Los Angeles 1994 [10:06] 05. This Time, by ???, Red Bank 1995 [13:58] 06. Drift Away, Cincinnati 1989 [17:59] 07. Eve Of Destruction, Columbus 2003 [23:33] 08. Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting, Philadelphia 2006 [26:51] 09. Heartbreak Hotel, Stockholm 1988 [30:57] 10. Heaven Help Us All, by Richie Sambora, Red Bank 1995 [34:27] 11. Badlands, Lyon 1993 [38:51] 12. Here Comes The Sun, Los Angeles 2001 [43:29] 13. Walkin’ The Dog, Red Bank 1995 [46:28] 14. I Shall Be Released, Copenhagen 1993 [49:30] 15. Heroes, Yokohama 2003 [52:11] 16. House Of The Rising Sun, Red Bank 1995 [56:30] 17. You Keep Me Hangin’ On, London 1990 [1:00:26] 18. Helter Skelter, Johannesburg 1995 [1:07:34] 19. Pink Cadillac, Anaheim 2001 [1:10:50] 20. Crazy, by Tico Torres, Red Bank 1995 [1:15:48] 21. Lean On Me, Osaka 2000 [1:18:26] 22. The Boys Are Back In Town, Sheffield 1986 [1:21:33] 23. Rock And Roll Music, Montréal 2003 [1:27:23] 24. Shooting Star, London 1990 [1:30:08] 25. With A Little Help From My Friends, New York 1992 [1:34:54] 26. Travelin’ Band, Paris 1988 [1:41:06] 27. Help!, Buenes Aires 1993 [1:46:08] 28. Diehard Medley ~ Working Class Man, Melbourne 1993 [1:48:45] ~ Say Goodbye To Hollywood, Los Angeles 2002 [1:51:22] ~ Alison, Dublin 1993 [1:52:43] ~ Last Christmas (this was a just for fun fake;)) “private Christmas party 2018” [1:54:19] ~ Pretty Woman, London 1988 [1:54:59] 29. Turn The Page, Toronto 2010 [1:55:47] 30. Walk Away Renee, San Diego 1989 [2:01:39] 31. Sylvia’s Mother, Atlantic City 2003 [2:03:26] 32. Please Come Home For Christmas, New York 1994 [2:07:23] 33. Levon, Red Bank 1991 [2:10:30] 34. Silent Night, Red Bank 1991 [2:16:23] 35. Happy Xmas (War Is Over), Sydney 2013 [2:21:00]
My current fan work is to keep those two playlists up to date, and I will be writing about new uploads. Which is how Bon Jovi The Cover Night 1986 – 2013
came about.
That was it!
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my business since February 2023:
Catacombe become the Rock Star you were born to be
Title: “Rock Star”
or “Rock Star yoga/ business/ writer”
artists: Suzanne Beenackers, little bear Puux art form: writing + YouTube videos
leg 1: earliest expressions, mixed work, July 2019 – March 2022
leg 2: The Void April 2022 – January 2023
leg 3: Storytelling 17 January 2023 –
You can find my books The Little Mistress Who Turned Into A Baby Koala A Boyfriend Like Jon Bongiovi and White Tigress Yoga Workbook
at the bottom of this page: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rockstarwriter
If you live in The Netherlands, Belgium or Germany, you can also order these books from me – just go to the bottom of this page: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rockstarwriter to check out which ones you want, and write me an email at s_beenackers@hotmail.com.
Payment is via PayPal or bank transfer.
Before you read on; These posts about Bon Jovi concerts are being moved.
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a Christmas concert avant-la-lettre
👩🏼💻 the story 23 december 2023
A Christmas concert, before Bon Jovi even knew they had Christmas concerts!
Frankfurt 1989, is when the band hit what must have been their Christmas-infused homesick rock bottom, playing night after night in another city in Germany. You can hear the melancholy drip off Blood on Blood’s introduction, and throughout the show every time Jon Bon Jovi drops the word Christmas – which is often and a concept that clearly means more to him than to the 1989 German crowd, where Christmas still revolved around baby Jesus not Santaclaus (who some say was given life by Coca-Cola!)- the pain of missing home is almost palpable.
A year after this concert, they were indeed home. Exactly as they had longed for, playing Germany around Christmas time, having been 16 months on the road and counting. But they would not just rest on their laurels.
For seven years, from 1990 to 1996, they would play New Jersey’s Count Basie theatre, in the week before Christmas; The Christmas Shows
(link to the bjtours website where you can find them all)
But nothing explained the profound meaning it had to them, to spend Christmas at home; Than Frankfurt 23 December, 1989.
This new concert
Bon Jovi
23 December 1989 Frankfurt, Germany 🇩🇪
🏟️ New Jersey Syndicate Tour
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my business since February 2023:
Catacombe become the Rock Star you were born to be
Title: “Rock Star”
or “Rock Star yoga/ business/ writer”
artists: Suzanne Beenackers, little bear Puux art form: writing + YouTube videos
leg 1: earliest expressions, mixed work, July 2019 – March 2022
leg 2: The Void April 2022 – January 2023
leg 3: Storytelling 17 January 2023 –
You can find my books The Little Mistress Who Turned Into A Baby Koala A Boyfriend Like Jon Bongiovi and White Tigress Yoga Workbook
at the bottom of this page: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rockstarwriter
If you live in The Netherlands, Belgium or Germany, you can also order these books from me – just go to the bottom of this page: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rockstarwriter to check out which ones you want, and write me an email at s_beenackers@hotmail.com.
Payment is via PayPal or bank transfer.
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