One of the best things about being a Bon Jovi fan, is the joy of seeing others diving deep into the Bon Jovi material, and coming up with remastered bootlegs, upgraded photos, little known facts, and with links to interesting articles and videos.
Some create legacies and libraries of their own, some post at regular intervals and others contribute day-by-day, on an ongoing basis.

It are these connections, the cross-over pollination they create and the conversations they spark with other fans, that are the perks of being a fan of a band that has active communities all over the world and all over internet.

And in my case, as a creator, they are the reason I can write about Bon Jovi and tie the topics I have a background in (yoga, personal development, and business) to something a little more entertaining! 
To something that rocks, not a little, but a lot more.

Although I am an experienced writer;
If it had not been for all the things I had learned from other fans, I would have been severely limited with what I could come up with.
And I definitely would not have committed to making this (almost!) daily blog about yoga and Bon Jovi live concerts-
as I promised this blog would be from this day forward.

And the truth of all this, became very obvious when just today, I started digging for the pre-1997 concerts Bon Jovi had given on this day, and I thought I had done my work!
When a Twitter account by Jane, effortlessly shared;
-an audio recording of their June 11 1996 concert in Luxemburg
-posters and photos from June 11 1995 concert Zeltweg/Spielberg Austria and June 11 1996 Luxembourg
And
Drumroll
-A legendary concert at June 11 1989 at the Giant Stadium in East Rutherford, that I had happened to miss!

The only thing about June 11/12 where Jane and I had come to the same conclusion was that their only retro June 12 gig, in 1984 Worcester Center USA, as opening act to the Scorpions, did not have YouTube uploads*.

[  *I later found out there is one other, also not recorded, concert:
June 12, Sunplaza Hiroshima, Japan ]

If you want to dive in, and relive the 80s and 90s decades with the band, today is a great day!
–Bon Jovi – Zeltweg, Austria 11.06.1995 (Full Show)
– Bon Jovi – Luxembourg 11.06.1996 (incomplete audio)
– Bon Jovi | Legendary First Concert at Giants Stadium | 30th Anniversary | New Jersey 1989

And just like in my previous post, I can also share a 2020 video, I made about the 1995 concert; 
My (Suzanne Beenackers) video review of
#15 Zeltweg/ Spielberg, Austria June 11 | 1995 Bon Jovi Concert Series (Stories)

In 2020, the many concert recordings on YouTube had inspired me to do a 1995 series and make video reviews.
But listening and analyzing them was way too time intensive to fit my calendar, and I ultimately dropped out on their three night streak at Wembley.

Since I have only come up with this concept of tying the Bon Jovi concerts on this day, to this daily yoga blog, and just casually discuss what comes to the table yoga wise;
I considered this Sunday June 12, “my first day”, on this blog.
The first day I got up and knew what I wanted to do, and started with gathering information about June 11 and 12 concerts.

And what today taught me, is that it is the connection with others, that is the reason why I love writing about Bon Jovi so much.
And making video stories about them.
That it ties the personal, the experience we all have when we listen to their music, to something bigger.

And that that is what I want for yoga, our yoga, to happen too.

I want to inspire you to start your own practice, in the same way that you can listen to music. Want to give you the little nudge, if you need any, that you really can just go onto YouTube, and for example start with Yoga with Adriene, or check the playlists under this post;
And then just do yoga, the same way you can listen to an album or a concert video.

Or you can put on music and just do your own yoga, whatever feels good to you.

And that we’re all 100% capable of doing our own thing. Just like we don’t need anybody to hold our hand or explain a Bon Jovi record, in order to listen to it, and enjoy it.

But that the whole thing just gets so much better with friends.
With community.

And we, the Bon Jovi fans; We already got that.

The yoga is just an extra.

 ~Suzanne
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This day in Bon Jovi history:
On June 10 1995 Bon Jovi performed in Basil Switzerland.

Today it is 37 years ago that Bon Jovi performed in Basil Switzerland. A fact that more or less randomly fell out of the Google hat, when I checked if Bon Jovi had ever given a concert on this day.
And one that almost seduced me into making some kind of commitment to always open these new daily posts with a concert reference!

“Almost” because I have a painful history with committing myself to listening and analyzing 2.5 hour Bon Jovi recordings before making content and unsurprisingly; That didn’t work.
The series was called The 1995 Bon Jovi Concert Series, and Basil was in the first few months of the tour, when I was still making the videos.

I m not going to update the description box, nor check what I m actually saying here, but – with my eyes closed and fingers in my ears !-  here is the link! lol
My (Suzanne Beenackers) video review of #14 Basel, Switzerland June 10

In 2020, the many concert recordings on YouTube had inspired me to do a series and make video reviews.
But listening and analyzing them was way too time intensive to fit my calendar.

So to recklessly yell:
“OMG I m going to open every Daily Bon Jovi Yoga post with an 80s or 90s Bon Jovi concert!” is probably setting myself up for disaster…..
It is probably the one thing, I really should not be doing.

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But wait.
What IF; I just commit to finding a daily concert link for you to listen to? 
And for me to listen to, during my deskwork. But I m not going to analyze or research it, or otherwise slow us down.
This way, we get to revisit all those wonderful concerts from that amazing era, and it will lift us up, and not delay me overpreparing.

So consider that done.

Besides; Anything that is unwise, and something I should not be doing, happens to be irresistibly appealing to me.
So of course we’re going to do that.

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And now, why I started this post today?!

10 June 2022!

The day I will hold as the OFFICIAL start, of all things Daily Bon Jovi Yoga, Rock Star Yoga. Of a new community, that like a new business, has opened its doors today, and that will be yours to come by whenever you want to.

Daily Bon Jovi Yoga/ Rock star Yoga Community

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Today is the day we start our free online community where we;
🦹🏻 start doing yoga *
🔝🚨get back on the wagon when we drop off
🌶️ take yoga to new levels
And at all levels: Totally rock it. 🤩

Because that is the big, bigger, biggest advantage, now that I have stopped what we are used to calling “teaching” yoga (but that was actually more instructing or guiding, and rarely teaching) and have realigned my yoga with my original, 24 year old (!) intention, with my initial passion:
We ALL get to rock yoga, and thrive, because we all get to practice in our own way and with the tools/ music and in the setting that inspires you.
You design the thing!

My yoga can now be the way what I ve always wanted it to be, and over the past few years, my work has morphed into what I REALLY want to teach!

Practice yoga.
Make it rock.
The end.

Or not the exact End, because my aim is to create a community, with this blog, with my main YouTube channel, and my dormant Dutch channel.

To build a community that acknowledges, supports and nurtures what we do, and who we are.
As rogue, rebel, independent as f. and by any standard badass yogis who DO NOT follow any rules, not even their own.

And in all honesty?
I, we, rebel yogis, should not have been the exception to the rule here.

Because over the last few decades a mesmerizing number of activities and services did develop as communities of individual practitioners.
Just not yoga.

Instead, yoga took a course where it ended up having all cards on supporting people who are looking for a group activity;
With zero services, communities or education for when you want to practice independently.
And that, is weird.

In 2001 I actually joined a four year teacher training because I had been doing yoga for 90 minutes a day, with just a weekly class to support me, that was in no way tailored to my needs.
There was nothing in between;
Weekly class or teacher training. That was it.
Maybe I could have found a teacher training that was 2 years instead of four, but getting a teacher training was the only way to learn the system of yoga.
The only way to feel you were getting the support you needed.

There are many things to unpack here.
Such as: Why did I even think I needed that support?
Why didn’t I just stick to my own mat, and was so susceptible to the idea I needed guidance?
Or that it would make my practice better? 
Which it certainly, did not.

My yoga practice has never been better than those first years, where all I had was one weekly yoga class and my library card.

If I think where I would have been if I would have developed THAT instead of burdening myself with all the history, the rules, the systems, but also the whole being a yoga teacher thing … Talking about traps to avoid in that industry, this blogpost would become 4000 words, and without any prospect of tying the final sentence to the Bon Jovi 1995 Basil concert!
So let’s not.

The point is not what my personal losses are, nor what my personal gains were;
The point is there are ample groups, classes, communities and teacher trainings for yoga, but they are all aimed at the practice being done in a group setting.
Yet there is hardly any support to develop your own practice.
To do it your own way.

There is no community to celebrate your wins, find inspiration, or EVEN,  simply someone telling you it is not just okay to develop your own practice;
It is a responsibility.

That you did not come here, that God did not put you on this earth, to dance to the beat of somebody else’s drum.

I m at 1:11 in the Bon Jovi Basil recording now.
The drums from Tico Torres kick in, together with David Bryan’s keyboard . It’s the intro to the song that was literally written to open the record, New Jersey (1988) as well as to open stadium and arena shows all around the world.

New Jersey should have been a double record;
There was a double amount of songs available, and with the help of fans they selected the demos that were recorded for the final album.
All songs, bar one; Lay Your Hands On Me didn’t have a demo.
It was composed in the studio, for one single purpose that was not debated with fans, nor was it subject to trial and error, and should we or should we nots.

Lay Your Hands On Me, was written to rock and open with a guaranteed bang!

That’s your own responsibility.

 ~Suzanne
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video, 90 minutes: Bon Jovi | New Jersey | The Ultimate Live Compilation | 1988-1991  by hAnD90

stills from my old videos. Playlists on my channel

Yesterday, I attended the Sunday Night surprise premiere of a new hAnD90 upload; A YouTube channel that restores video and audio recordings of Bon Jovi concerts.

It is a craft only few possess and I imagine you can compare remastering Bon Jovi concerts as somewhere between the art of lovingly restoring gems that were lost in time – like the piece by piece restorations of very old objects, as seen on YouTube. A process that includes sand streaming, grinding, acid baths and other innovative techniques to remove rust, and tear and then carefully rebuild the object.
And, on the other hand, remastering video and audio of concert recordings reminds me of the big business of upgrading old movies. As we’ve seen classics being rereleased by major studios, in full color and with enhanced audio.

Although few will understand exactly what hAnD90 does to achieve these results – although he does always include his process in the description box – I think on the level of one individual recording, of one individual process?
We have an understanding of what it must look like.

But what few realize is that, in my opinion, most of us will soon face a far bigger problem, and that the bottleneck is ultimately not a tech one.
It’s the same reason why I was very quick to quit my studies to become a photographer in the 90s, because this thing was driving me crazy. 
And it is something that everyone with a camera on their phone knows only too well, which is;
“How do we structure this?”

What the hell do we do with the thousands and thousands of photos from our phones?
Or: How would you archive hundreds and hundreds of Bon Jovi VHS, cassette tapes,  video files and MP3 recordings?

Sooner or later every creator has to find a way to structure, archive, but also still access, their work, if they are ever to create a legacy. And also, if they have any intention of keeping their sanity.

Unless you’re okay with your surroundings being in a constant state of turmoil, the quality of the structure you have for storing your creative work, is at least as important as the quality of the work you deliver.
Unless you want to run the risk of your object being retrieved from the bottom of a creek in Idaho, and hope for the YouTuber of that time to sand stream and reconstruct it back to life for you;
You need to be the guardian of your own creative work, the curator of your own depot, and it is your job to manage your ground materials and your creations, for as long as they fall under your care.

But when in 2016, I started filming my own yoga videos, I didn’t know all that of course. I thought that learning how to upload and edit, was the problem. Not how I was going to keep the description box updated with a yoga business that was subject to change. 
I thought I was like Bon Jovi, touring, one gig after another. One video after the next. And you get better at it, right?

But what I failed to see was that creating videos had put me in a whole different league, the creator one.
And that the only thing that I should worry getting better at, was understanding how to keep my content updated, both with my own work and offerings, as well as with YouTube features.
Regularly, new boxes suddenly needed ticking, new features needed to be bypassed, and there were the occasional hiccups, as I vividly remember YouTube unedited my videos early 2020.

Just like most yoga teachers in the Netherlands (we are all independent, and rarely paid by a studio or gym) spend more time doing marketing, emailing students, doing their own yoga practice, cleaning their studio, handling their own and their business’ finances, than actually teaching yoga;
Most YouTube creators spend more time researching their video, cleaning the set, cleaning it up afterwards, uploading their video to their computer, editing it, uploading it to YouTube, entering all the specifications, writing a description box, and posting it onto social media;
Than actually filming the video.

And after a while, another time consuming task is added as well;
To either let their old content fall by the wayside, or revisit it, refresh it, and create a different context so that it keeps its value.

But like I said, I was ignorant of those things, at the time.
It was just me, and some archaic software program that I do not even know the name of anymore, but it compressed my files in a way so that I could upload them within 30 minutes, instead of the uploads taking hours and hours.
And it was my pride and joy that I had even figured out how to do that, because it was not easy.

And to be honest, when last week, for some reasons shared and some not shared, I decided to quit my yoga career and never make yoga videos again;
A part of me, a large part, was still in that 2D reality, and was measuring my worth as a creator by how actively I was creating new content.

No wonder that last week’s decision to give it all up, was a blow to my self-esteem as well as to my identity as a yoga teacher.
From a logical perspective, now that I was no longer teaching yoga, I had stopped being a yoga teacher.

Which, as it turns out, could absolutely not have been further from the truth.

The moment I decided to stop making yoga videos, just like the moment I decided to never teach real life classes anymore (with the exception of yoga to friends), was not the moment I stopped being a yoga teacher;
It was in fact, the moment I became it.

Because my dream, what inspired me personally, is to be a strong practitioner, of yoga. To be a self-reliant student, who creates her own practice.
Whereas the profession of yoga teacher, seldom if ever, entails encouraging and inspiring students to create their own practice.
And I call it Rock Star Yoga or #dailybonjoviyoga, because I do it to the length and music of one album of Bon Jovi.
But yoga classes rarely offer a structured curriculum, where the student learns what they need to rock their yoga. 
Nor is yoga taught in a way where the growth within the practice, and the development of the practice, is the leading motive. 

Instead, yoga is typically taught in a way that enables you to get through your life. And the ambition, the change, the growth, if mentioned, is usually more in the field of general personal development.
And aimed at all the other aspects, of your life.
Not at the yoga itself.

But that has never been yoga, for me.

All I want yoga to be for me, is something you can indulge in, fully. On your own. Trusting yourself, trusting your practice, trusting God, Bon Jovi or whatever it is you want to put your faith in.
I want it to be a transformative experience for you, that lures you in, and that will be with you, for the rest of your life.

I want you to fall deeply and madly in love yoga, with all your heart.

And that, is what I will be talking about, if you need me.
On two channels:
My Dutch yoga channel*, as well as on my English channel*.
I already changed the headers of those channels weeks ago.
They say things like “yoga” and “Studio voor Rock Star Yoga” (Dutch), and I m going to leave it at that. Because although I no longer make instructional videos, I DO teach yoga! 

And for the first time in my life, I ll be teaching you the only thing that I think matters:

LIBERATION
How to create true rock star freedom, in your body, business and your life.
And become who the world needs you to be

As soon as I have liberated myself from a very earthly cold 😉
The following series will resume or start:
– Life lessons in Bon Jovi songs 
– Rock Star Yoga (new style!)
On my English YouTube
– Dutch Rock Star Yoga 
Op mijn Nederlandse YouTube
– and LIBERATION business videos
On the Rock Your Business channel

I ve also added playlists from the best yoga teachers of the world: Shiva Rea, Meghan Currie, Tara Stiles.
I ve created playlists for beginners, there is a 30 Day challenge, and all those videos I created all those years? And better than I could possibly redo them for you now?
Soon enough, you will be able to revisit all of them.

My old work, is being unlocked and added to my main channel, video by video, playlist by playlist. 

In the months leading up to the Ultimate New Jersey Live Compilation, hAnD90 remastered all the concerts he wanted to use.
And after he had done that, he composed the 90 minute long compilation, that is now on his channel. It opens with Jon’s voice, talking about the meaning of this New Jersey tour, which came right after their Slippery When Wet tour.

The video ends with an acoustic song, The Fighter, and a quote about how you have to do it yourself, even when nobody is rooting for you.
They had each other, and that was all they needed.

We also, have each other.

And with all the yoga books ever written, and over 15 years of yoga on YouTube from the best teachers of the world at our fingertips;
With me being able to teach you yoga through this blog, through my Dutch YouTube*, and my English one*?

And with almost four decades of Bon Jovi music to provide the perfect soundtrack to our practice?

We really do, have all we need.

 ~Suzanne
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Madonna playing a yoga teacher in The Next Best Thing.
Which in my opinion, was THE BEST thing!
Without Madonna I would not do yoga, nor have taught yoga

Dear reader,

First of all a little consolidation:
This blog is staying.

Tomorrow I will reboot my Yoga Challenge to do Bon Jovi yoga 365 days,  and I will write about it here.
This will make this blog the only expression of yoga, I will have in the future.

About two months ago I merged all my art forms together, into a Rock Star project, that included English and Dutch yoga channels.
I was absolutely thrilled with the idea that the Rock Star project would bring all my favorite areas, Yoga, Business and Writing together.

But the result has been absolutely disastrous.
My productivity has flatlined, in all areas.
And all I think of all day is that I “have to” make yoga videos, and beat myself up for not being professional.

I have never been less productive in my life.
Wanting to combine these areas is clearly too much, and it has paralyzed me.

Combined with the fact that I have found out that I will not teach yoga as a professional, in real life ever again (and only one day pick up teaching yoga to friends), and the fact that my yoga videos on YouTube feel out of alignment with the power house I am and the inspiration I know I am here to bring!, the only correct choice is to stop teaching yoga once and for all.

Talking business and Bon Jovi on video, is for me. Teaching yoga, is not. 
And not just now; over the last two weeks alone, there has not been a day, I did not want to delete all my yoga videos.
By quitting making new ones, I hope I can stand having them online, and that the desire to delete all of them will fade away.

But all in all, I have decided to bite the bullet, and I admit I have made a mistake.

That I have not just deluded myself, and given myself hope, that I would be able to teach yoga suitable for Bon Jovi fans, and build two online YouTube yoga studios, that we would all love and that would be fun and lighthearted!
But I have also given you hope I would be able to do that.

I admit to you and myself;
I can’t.

And instead of dragging this failure into yet another day, this has to end right now. It’s enough.
I will spend the rest of this week cleaning up all my blogs and channels, until there is clarity that I am a writer, a business teacher, a freedom teacher, a YouTuber about Bon Jovi; But that I will only write about yoga.

That is still a lot. 
But to me, taking yoga videos out of there, and acknowledging that I am no longer a yoga teacher, makes it not just bearable;
It makes it RIGHT.

It makes the project Rock Star exactly, the way it was always meant to be. Yoga does not belong in it. And teaching yoga does not get to go with me, from this point on.

Will I miss being in spandex in front of my camera?
Absolutely not.

Will I miss being a yoga teacher?
Oh hell yes.

I ve updated the Rock Star program here below.
And in the upcoming days I will adjust all my websites and YouTube channels.
Which is a good way to spend the rest of the week, because I have a pretty bad cold, and have not been able to work yesterday and today.

But I wanted to let you, on this Daily Bon Jovi Yoga site, know first.
Which like I said, will continue.
I started a 365 day yoga challenge one month ago, which was also one of the many things that suffered.
I want to start fresh and show you and myself, that I can do this!
The first month of this yoga challenge did help me understand I was blocking, and in a very bad shape mentally. It helped me to understand I needed to burn the boat and never teach yoga again.

Right now it hurts so much, but it’s nothing more than shame and losing face.
Which is ultimately absolutely irrelevant. Like I said, bite the bullet, apologize, and move on.
I fucked up, and that’s the end of it.

But it does feel weird.
Because in 2019 I did have a vision of what I was going to do, what I was going to create, and I called it Rock Star Yoga.
And to then not do it?
To then say, sorry I f-ed up?
It can mean two things in my opinion.

Either the vision was false and I just wanted it to be true, because being a yoga teacher gave me a sense of identity.
I have always been a communicator, artist, writer and mindset and business/entrepreneur enthusiast. All day, every day, I can do this work that I love without even needing sleep.
Yet the only yoga teacher I ever wanted to be was Madonna in The Next Best Thing! 
Rock Star Yoga was me giving a name to what Madonna in The Next Best Thing was.
Rock Star Yoga was the closest thing I have ever felt, to capturing that  dream. The closest thing, to the inspiration she offered in that movie.
So that makes it even stranger that I didn’t pursue!

The second option is that the vision was true, and Rock Star Yoga was for me; And I am missing my calling and life’s purpose.
But there is a catch to this one….
Because what I DO automatically, which is writing, and business, and studying Bon Jovi, and even making Bon Jovi videos (although, like the 365 yoga challenge, these videos have also mas-sive-ly suffered from me beating myself up for not making yoga videos).
So judging from the past years, the purpose, the calling, of wanting to teach Rock Star Yoga, has proven to take a toll on writing and my Bon Jovi work, two things which I consider far more important.
More, my calling.
If I have to choose, and judging from how little work I get done if I make myself teach yoga on video, I do have to choose; I d rather drop yoga and do all the other things.

It was just that being a yoga teacher did give me an identity, and of course, money. 
That made Rock Star Yoga so alluring…. It was the promise of a real profession (yoga teacher) WITH the coolness of all things Bon Jovi.

But upcoming July, it would have been almost three years since I started developing Rock Star Yoga, and I have been unsuccessful at making it work.
I will spare you how Covid and giving up my yoga space, have all contributed to it, because I think ultimately it doesn’t matter.

And with that, my yoga career has finally, come to an end.

~Suzanne
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Title: “Rock Star”
or “Rock Star yoga/ business/ writer”

artists: Suzanne Beenackers, little bear Puux           
art form: performance art
phase 1: earliest expressions, mixed work, July 2019 – March 2022
phase 2: April 2022 – 

ROCK STAR
English YouTube Life lessons in Bon Jovi songs
blog Rock Star Writer

YOGA
blog  Daily Bon Jovi Yoga

BUSINESS
YouTube Rock Your Business

WRITER
blog World Between Worlds

My Dutch channel and blog have not been reassigned yet.
blog: Suzanne Beenackers
Nederlandse YouTube 
I have some ideas, but I haven’t decided yet.

2 Facebook pages
1. Rock Star Writer on Facebook
2. Dutch: Suzanne Beenackers Schrijver Facebook met beertje Puux

1 Twitter account
my personal Twitter account