Look, no Hands! | Bon Jovi 1990 01 04 Wembley Stadium 3rd night | final weeks New Jersey Syndicate Tour

Published on 14 December 202320 December 2023 by Suzanne BeenackersLeave a comment

The “Slippery When Wet night” of the New Jersey Tour! Bon Jovi 4 January 1990 Wembley, London 🇬🇧 third night 🏟️ New Jersey Syndicate Tour 🎛️🎶🎧-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6QkmAgo3Rc This blog: 1. Look, no Hands! (story) 2. New On YouTube (added to playlists) 3. The Yoga to Wembley 4 January 1990 (We 13 Dec ’23)

Look, no Hands!

👩🏼‍💻 the story 14 december 2023

. Bon Jovi January 4th 1990 – just weeks before the tour that spanned 18 months would end in Guadalajara, Mexico – was the third and final night at Wembley. The audio was uploaded by hAnD90, summer 2023, and it is a bit of an out-of-the-box choice for this blog, since I currently blog about new(er) uploads, which I then ceremoniously add to the Bon Jovi playlists. This upload was already in the playlists, AND I have not even gotten around to comparing it to the 8 minute longer alternative from a different channel- Does the other upload have an extra song? Or is it just the audience noise in between songs, which has been cut? My friends, I am ill-prepared. But the reason is simple, because this concert was not picked because it was a unique or a new upload (although it is both of those things) but was chosen by me for one reason only; It is the ONLY concert in the entire New Jersey Syndicate Tour, where they do not play Lay Your Hands On Me! It is a No Hands concert! 😉 And the reason is tied to the nickname this concert is known under: Slippery When Wet Night Although the concert is from the New Jersey tour, named after their 1988 New Jersey album, they actually played 9 songs out of 10, of their Slippery When Wet album, this night. Something HAD to give! And that something was their standard opening song Lay Your Hands On Me. Instead they opened in a very unusual fashion, with Raise Your Hands (Guess there were hands after all?!), Slippery When Wet’s opening track of the B Side, for those playing vinyl or cassettes. Thereby ignoring not just New Jersey’s opening song, Lay Your Hands On Me, but also Slippery When Wet’s opener; Let It Rock. Which was played later in the show. I did Tweet a short “Soundtrack of the day” review of the alternative, older upload, of this concert, on 4 January 2023. It said: “EPIC show with a rare Social Disease AND the Bob Dylan cover Seven Days, both with a horn section; The Tower of London Horns! + Gotta love that harmonica in Born to be my Baby; And the adlibs filled outro! Let it Rock is the most energetic version in the history of Bon Jovi; Opening vocals to Living in Sin will leave no heart untouched + Blood on Blood, is one of brotherhood” Just, you know….. no Hands!.

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Bon Jovi 4 January 1990 Wembley, London 🏟️ New Jersey Syndicate Tour has been added to: New in Bon Jovi concerts before 1997 And to the playlist: “Part II: Bon Jovi concerts on this day 6 Dec-9 June (before 1997) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiGoDE3C06ScbVI_oPZcf77OtrO_935JD” at January 4.

The Yoga

👩🏼‍💻 to Wembley, 3rd night 4 january 1990.

The Yoga Wednesday 13 December 2023 1 h 45 minutes Luxuriously long session and I did #dailybonjoviyoga using the schedules from the #dailybonjoviyoga download I created in 2021. I started at You Give Love A Bad name, all the way to the end, and then started at the beginning again, doing the first three songs. Then I did a relaxation listening to You Give Love A Bad Name again, and Born To Be My Baby. . ~Suzanne 🇳🇱 Tikkie ☕️ Buy me a coffee 🌎 Paypal

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May the messiest of starts win | Bon Jovi 1988 10 31 Dublin, Ireland | 1st concert New Jersey Syndicate Tour

Published on 12 December 202314 December 2023 by Suzanne BeenackersLeave a comment

New show available on YouTube Bon Jovi 31 October 1988 RDS Simmonscourt, Dublin🇮🇪 opening night 🏟️ New Jersey Syndicate Tour 🎛️🎶🎧-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WIxdPC_H4o It was uploaded by hAnD90 around Halloween, and although he improved the sound slightly, it was still more or less uploaded as a practical joke because the recording was so bad it was scary! 🎃 😅. This blog: 1. May the messiest of starts win (review) 2. New On YouTube (added to playlists) 3. The Yoga to Dublin 31 Oct 1988 (Mo 11 Dec ’23 and Tu 12 Dec ’23)

May the messiest of starts win

👩🏼‍💻 the story 12 december 2023

. Dublin 31 October 1988 is known by bootleg traders as the worst recording of any Bon Jovi concert in the history of Bon Jovi. “I think it was recorded on a walkman hidden inside a bag or something similar, ” the description box says. Unsurprisingly, it never made it to YouTube. And: “The entire encore section got incredibly weird, with 6 out of 7 songs being covers.” hAnD90 adds in the description box. Yet some of us will “remember-ish” the show from the documentary Access All Areas, where disappointed, angry bandmembers were filmed in the dressingroom after a Dublin show. But there were two shows, and according to the documentary, that footage was from November 1, not October 31. The Nov 1 footage was mixed with raving fans, post-concert. The second night is available on a very small channel, uploaded by FighterBJ on December 5, 2020, also relatively recent. So although both Dublin shows have a familiar ring; They are actually super rare. Oct 31 is ALSO the only night of the entire tour 1988-1990, Let It Rock does not get played! I think this jinxed the concert to drowning in a sea of covers, but I am terribly biased when it comes to Let It Rock. To add to the mess, the fans portrayed in the documentary as being raving about the Dublin show, are not from there. The footage was most likely shot in Glasgow on 2 or 3 December. Not after the show from Nov 1, Jon is referring to in the documentary as being the worst ever. But either way there is reason to believe a happy crowd COULD have been filmed on Nov 1st too! FighterBJ writes in his description box: “I personally find it really good, Jon’s voice was very fresh and no one was burnt out, overall they had great energy.” My guess is Bon Jovi fandom has a tie between this New Jersey Syndicate Tour being their best ever; Versus These Days tour being their best. But all would agree the messy start in Dublin in no way resulted in a bad tour. Just a great movie.

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Bon Jovi 31 October 1988 Dublin, Ireland 🏟️ New Jersey Syndicate Tour has been added to: New in Bon Jovi concerts before 1997 And to the playlist: “Part II: Bon Jovi concerts on this day 6 Dec-9 June (before 1997) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiGoDE3C06ScbVI_oPZcf77OtrO_935JD” at October 31.

The Yoga

👩🏼‍💻 to Dublin 31 Oct 1988

. My yoga sessions are done with my phone, playing the concert in the background. The volume is very low, because I don’t want these concerts to become a #dailybonjovinuisance to the neighbors! But obviously in this case, it was probably for the best. Or, as hAnD90 said in the description box: “there’s just nothing that can be done about it. All I did was filter a little noise and add a steep cut-off curve to the lowest frequencies to maybe prevent your ears from starting to bleed.” The Yoga Monday 11 December 2023 47 minutes I did #dailybonjoviyoga using Yoga Miracles schedules. with this concert from the second song, Bad Medicine to Living in Sin, The Yoga Tuesday 12 December 2023 50 minutes I did #dailybonjoviyoga with the White Tigress workbook, starting where I had left off yesterday, with Blood on Blood, all the way to the end, and then the first song Lay Your Hands On Me, for long relaxation The materials I used were the Yoga Miracles schedules from my upcoming blogpost/ yoga booklet & my White Tigress yoga workbook. . ~Suzanne 🇳🇱 Tikkie ☕️ Buy me a coffee 🌎 Paypal

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The music of a generation. And the next. | Bon Jovi 1995 09 02 | concert for the opening Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame

Published on 18 November 202318 November 2023 by Suzanne BeenackersLeave a comment

New remaster Bon Jovi 2 September 1995 Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame opening Cleveland 🇺🇸 pro-shot video 🏟️ off-tour 1995 🎛️🎶🎧-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP6DclEnwYU Uploaded by hAnD90 on 3 November 2023 This blog: 1. The music of a generation. And the next. (review) 2. New Remaster (added to playlists) 3. The foe of video (personal post about Rock Star Yoga, doing yoga and making reviews, or lack thereof) .

The music of a generation. And the next.

👩🏼‍💻 the story 18 November 2023

. The performance consisted of 3 songs. 1. With A Little Help From My Friends [0:00] 2. It’s My Life / We Gotta Got Out Of This Place [7:23] with Eric Burdon from The Animals 3. Imagine / Give Peace A Chance [14:13] acoustic Richie and Jon On the 2nd of September 1995, Bon Jovi played at an all-star concert organized to celebrate the opening of the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Bon Jovi squeezed this show in between a concert in Syracuse on September 1st, and Toronto September 3rd, of Bon Jovi’s Crossroad/These Days Tour; An era that a majority of the fans would consider to be Bon Jovi’s prime. 1995’s These Days album had brought the band critical acclaim, and in particular in Europe their fanbase had solidified bringing in music lovers who had previously ignored the band, mainly due to its popularity with girls and women. But in 1995, even the harshest of critics had noticed that not only had Bon Jovi survived the hair metal era of the 80s; They were now thriving in a 90s grunge landscape. That Bon Jovi never looked sharper, than this tour where they stuck to all-black outfits, did not hurt their case. With the train of their worldwide tour rolling full steam ahead, Bon Jovi were at their peak, the moment they stepped on a circle shaped platter the size of the stage, that would rotate four of the five bandmembers of Bon Jovi, plus guitarists G.E. Smith (Hall & Oates) and Steve Cropper and drummer Jim Keltner, in front of the 82.000 big crowd that had gathered in Municipal Stadium in Cleveland. A questionable and lukewarm choice to make an entry, in an industry that has never shunned away from live fireworks on stage. The entry reminded me of a Dutch/Asian inspired buffet called “a rice table”, where we have rotating platters on the middle of the table, to provide easy access to the dishes. The musicians being brought in on a rice platter was worsened by the fact that Jon Bon Jovi did not have to be on the rice platter. Apparently, there was a level where you no longer had to agree to being brought in on a rice platter, just that the others didn’t make the cut. However, judging from the video, no one seemed to be too bothered with it, and the three songs show us Bon Jovi at their absolute peak. Their performance is proof why this year’s concerts would go down as their best. And may even find you reconsidering the option of sticking to a full-black wardrobe. However, the viewpoint that 95/96 had Bon Jovi at their peak, is not an undisputed one! Many fans will always prefer the rawness of 80s Bon Jovi, or point out the perfect mix of raw versus professionalism, of their 1993 tour and 1992’s An Evening With Bon Jovi. At the Rock n Hall Fall of Fame concert in 1995, all performers played only coversongs, and Bon Jovi’s choice fell back on 1992’s An Evening With Bon Jovi where they had thoroughly investigated, studied and rehearsed a whole series of cover songs, which would be woven into the evening which was a show on MTV, to promote their album Keep the Faith. But what the Evening with Bon Jovi performance had really done, was that it had been the first time, and perhaps the only time, where they had successfully crossed the line from pop or rock music, to art. An Evening With Bon Jovi, and the seriousness they had approached this project with including endless rehearsals, had in many ways cracked open the restrictive mold where 80s rock n’roll had kept them stuck in. After that; They were free. Both With a Little Help From My Friends as well as The Animal song It’s My Life/Got to get out of this place, are being played on both occasions: An evening with Bon Jovi October 1992, as well as this performance in Cleveland, in 1995. And for this occasion, Eric Burdon from the Animals joins Jon Bon Jovi on stage. They close their small set of covers with an acoustic version of Imagine/ Give Peace a Chance, Richie and Jon side by side with acoustic guitars, in the spirit of their legendary 1989 acoustic performance of Livin’on a Prayer and Wanted Dead or Alive (the one that sparked MTV’s Unplugged series). Jon dedicates the song to his musical influences and remembers how his mother would tell him to investigate the musicians who influenced the musicians you admire. Pointing him to the fact that music is legacy that is being handed down from one generation to the next. In 1995 Eric Burton was the older generation, at 54 years old. Younger than Jon Bon Jovi is today. But the cover songs that were chosen that day, as well as the ones Bon Jovi played in An Evening With Bon Jovi, remain relevant as ever. And over time, Bon Jovi songs have become those Rock n’Roll songs you would now choose, if a to be opened Hall of Fame would ask you to cover songs that changed the course of rock n’roll history. Bon Jovi became the legend behind the legends of today. The influence behind the influence. Many young people, tracing back the musical roots of their idols, will stumble upon Bon Jovi. Even in 2023, music is still handed down, from one generation to the next. Just like that one night in 1995, in Cleveland Ohio.

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Bon Jovi 2 September 1995 Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame opening Cleveland 🇺🇸 pro-shot video 🏟️ off-tour 1995 has been added to: New in Bon Jovi concerts before 1997 And to the playlist: “Part I: Bon Jovi concerts on this day 10 June – 5 December (before 1997) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiGoDE3C06ScAo9UN4GyhtQWYfl3d6jMT” at September 2. .

The foe of video

🧘🏼‍♀️ the (lack of) #dailybonjoviyoga to rock n’roll hall of Fame, 2 sept 1995

. The blog you’re reading right now, has had multiple course corrects over the past year. And its most recent iteration “is” or more accurately “should be”, (1) to listen to a new upload on the hAnD90 channel of a before 1997 Bon Jovi recording, while (2) doing yoga/ developing what will ultimately become Rock Star Yoga and then (3) to write a blogpost about both this new recording, like a review to a concert, and mention the yoga that was done to it. So reviews like the one you just read above, would be written after listening to the concert while doing yoga. Another time-consuming-and-often-not-done-activity, just like listening to Bon Jovi concerts Combining listening to the new uploads with doing yoga, would be the proverbial killing of two birds with one stone. “Why would anyone in their right mind want to kill two birds?” a question on top of anyone’s mind hearing this saying, but let’s not get into that. I could already see a glorious future for myself, both as a Bon Jovi connaisseur, where every recording would initiate me into deeper levels of knowledge! As well as forecast both a physical transformation and a rise in my professional status of Rock Star Yoga Teacher. This was about the megalomaniac point where reality stepped in. And it wasn’t even an unforeseen jolt of divine intervention, nor did the struggle come at some point far along the road, where things had gotten incredibly complex. No, it was an old foe, rearing its head, and throwing my super efficient plan straight into the trash bin!

-> THE VIDEO RECORDING <-

On a related matter, I also have a series waiting for me to be picked up, on my YouTube channel, that was brought to a halt two years ago. It are reviews about Bon Jovi 1995-1996 concerts. And although I have claimed I will be picking it up, the reason I still haven’t done that and my courage just sinks every time I realize which video I want to start at, and I don’t even start… Instead I get completely discouraged. The concert I want to start and reboot that series with, is Wembley 1995 first night, a 3 hour video registration. This was the final concert I reviewed 2 years ago, and I want to reboot the series, starting with another review of that. The double reviews would mark the two year hiatus in the series. Which maybe would have worked, if it had not been for the fact this review was to cover a video, not just an audio, of a concert. And videos have been my Achilles heel right from the moment I started that series! It is just very difficult to fit in hours of video watching. Where concert audios can be listened to while cleaning the house or doing yoga; Videos demand that you stay present. So unless I learn how to “deal” with videos, neither this current blog series of reviews of new uploads (that you’re reading right now), nor my video series on YouTube about 1995-1996 concerts, will be going anywhere! Which does not mean that the audio listening and its writing review process is flawless; Far from. This blog actually contains TWO drafts (unpublished posts), two concerts to which I already listened, made a Canva illustration for, setup the blogpost, included all the links, wrote out my yoga session, wrote a blogpost or at least a partial one- And then abandoned it. So obviously, I still have a lot to learn if I ever want the combined review/yoga series on this blog to roll, instead of to perish away in the graveyard that is my draft folder. But with audio I know that ultimately, I will find a way to hack it. I just listen to it again, while doing my finances or something, and finish the blogpost. But with video? I’m nowhere! And when I dived into the hAnD90 channel to see which upload would be the first to do yoga to, and write a review about, I saw it was this 20 minute video. So I couldn’t do yoga with it. I watched it without doing yoga, just with a notebook present. For someone (me) who has had a 3 hour Wembley 1995 video hanging over her head as a big “should do” for half a year now, doing one video of Bon Jovi on the Rock n Roll hall of fame music hall opening concert, for 20 minutes straight, was extremely doable. And what I learned watching this gorgeous recording of 1995 Bon Jovi! Was something that brought me closer to solving the puzzle of how in the world I am ever going to turn into a consistent Bon Jovi blogger, if I get delayed by video registrations. Delayed for weeks to years even, considering my meager video production. And this lesson was: Do it for the beauty. Be grateful these gorgeous video registrations exist! 20th century Bon Jovi on video is by far, the most interesting, breathtaking, profound work of art I personally know. And although few will agree: None have to. It is MY preferred art form. It is what I, value most. Which is the reason I chose this work of reviewing them. So despite still not knowing how I will find the time to watch concerts that have a video registration, I will never call them a foe, or curse them again for not being able to fit into a multi-task schedule. From now on, when I stumble upon a 20th century Bon Jovi on video, next up for a review, it is no longer a curse. It is a blessing of the highest kind.

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Wind of Change | update for this website | Hell Night a.k.a opening night of the New Jersey Tour

Published on 31 October 20231 November 2023 by Suzanne BeenackersLeave a comment

Photo: Me (Suzanne Beenackers) on a very stormy day in Scheveningen, the Netherlands. 2023 10 28

Tonight it is Halloween, or Samhain which is old year’s eve in pagan religions. But I remember it mostly because of Hell Night in the movie the Crow. Although technically Hell Night is on the 30th not the 31st of October. But now I also remember the 31st of October because I was pulled even deeper into Bon Jovi’s history after last night’s upload on YouTube; 31 October 1988. Bon Jovi’s disastrous opening night of the New Jersey Syndicate Tour in Dublin, Ireland. After 35 years we can finally listen to it; -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WIxdPC_H4o “Bon Jovi | 1st Night at RDS Simmonscourt | Start of NJ Tour | 🎃 Halloween Audio 🎃| Dublin 1988” The night ended up in their tour documentary Access All Areas, with their behind-the-scenes anger and disappointment after the show, sliced in with footage from “raving fans outside”, after the show. The quotation marks stand for a contradiction pointed out in one of the comments to last night’s upload; That the fans raving outside had Scottish accents. The sliced in footage was actually footage from after the Glasgow shows on December 2 and 3. If there were raving fans in Dublin, they had not been caught on celluloid. Back to the movie The Crow; Hell Night or Devil’s Night was an existing name throughout the 70s through the 90s, for the night before Halloween. In the movie they may have taken it a few steps further, turning it into a night where gangs ruled the streets. But the unthinkable happend and Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee, was killed on set, with live fire coming from a gun. And now back to the changes I’m making: I didn’t plan for them to be on Halloween; But there is something fitting for me, to do it on such a dark night. After all, it was the “light” in the yoga world, the friendliness and softness, or sometimes just the pretending of it, that had slowed me down, derailed me, and ultimately; Stopped me from being a yoga teacher. It is pouring rain outside, currently. Just like in the movie The Crow. It is dark outside and I’m in the middle of a workweek so full, I have no idea how I will get everything done. And yet I feel more alive in my work, than I ever did in my first yoga career. Oh yes, this Halloween night, to announce the change on this website is just perfect. So in short, this is what will change: In 2022-2023 I made two playlists, collecting all Bon Jovi concerts and uploads on YouTube from their concerts 1984-1996 And I want to keep these lists updated, with new additions on YouTube like first night Dublin 1988. Preferably, I want to listen to the recordings and say something original about them or even write a review. I don’t just want to add them to the list. These stories about new uploads and additions to the list, is what you have been getting from me lately. But I want to get back to what this site is named: I want this blog to also be, about Daily Bon Jovi Yoga! So, as far as this website goes, what will change is that I will listen to the recording while doing yoga, and will write about the yoga and use the hashtag #dailybonjoviyoga on my Canva posts (those square photos with letters) The content of all the blogs you will receive (if you’re subscribed to this channel) will stay largely the same; But the Canva will look different, including the hashtag #dailybonjoviyoga and the post will contain an extra paragraph about yoga. The second change is about my commercial offerings, which you will see if you follow me on social media. I will actively start offering private yoga classes & private yoga workshops here in Nijmegen, but they will move from my local company “De Club” to my international company “Catacombe”. This means that they move from the Dutch domain, to the English speaking one, and that you will start seeing them. As I said: Mainly on social media. This website, Daily Bon Jovi Yoga, is one of my writer’s site, it is not a business site. But it is possible you will start seeing the Catacombe yoga offerings, as I gradually move them from my Dutch company to my English one. In the film Brandon Lee plays a rock star who is murdered together with his girlfriend. He comes back as a supernatural avenger, who flies away in the shape of a crow. After Brandon’s death, the movie was finished with digital technology as well as a different actor in the role as a body double. And for the movie Access All Areas, the Dublin/Glasgow mix-up is not the only time it takes liberties with the truth. For a documentary, it is surprisingly inaccurate. If there is a lesson about the days we are in right now, to be learned from the movie Crow, a movie about 30 October Hell Night, and the mighty New Jersey Syndicate Tour starting Dublin 31 October 1988, it is that what starts around Halloween when the veil between the worlds of the spirits and the living is the thinnest; Is unpredictable, violent, epic, mythical. It is beyond the realm of reason, a place where storytelling takes over. ~Suzanne

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In 2022 -2023 I started the “concerts on this day” series; Resulting in many blogposts and two full fledged playlists. Part I: Bon Jovi concerts on this day 10 June – 5 December (before 1997) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiGoDE3C06ScAo9UN4GyhtQWYfl3d6jMT And: Part II: Bon Jovi concerts on this day 6 Dec-9 June (before 1997) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiGoDE3C06ScbVI_oPZcf77OtrO_935JD My current fan work is to keep those two playlists up to date, and I will be writing about new uploads. . ~Suzanne 🇳🇱 Tikkie ☕️ Buy me a coffee 🌎 Paypal You can follow all content on: Twitter, Facebook, and I am new on Instagram.

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day 4-day 14 Top Shelf (an extended stay in The Wilderness) | 365 days

Published on 5 May 20225 May 2022 by Suzanne BeenackersLeave a comment

In 1990 Jon Bon Jovi released a successful solo album Blaze of Glory, a soundtrack to a movie. The MTV interview with Julie Brown visiting his rented villa in Hollywood hills, was an absolute joy to watch! Video bottom post.

When I wrote two blogposts at the start of this year long yoga challenge, and naming the second one Day 2 even when it was written on Day 3 (but yoga session 2, I was already one day behind), I definitely did not know my time in the wilderness was far from over.

The passionate blogpost was titled:
day 2 The Wilderness | 365 days
about 1990, an intense post-touring year for Jon Bon Jovi, when he crossed the US on a motorcycle but also got on the Young Guns II caravan which then led him to Hollywood Hills to produce his first solo record.

It was a time without band, without having a familiar routine to follow, perhaps even a time without full ownership of being the world famous rock star he had ambitiously strived to be and had then become it.
It was a time without all of those things, and it led to a year of both proverbial and literal wilderness (of New Mexico, and crossing the United States on bikes).

The blogpost suggested that since Jon Bon Jovi’s time in the wilderness had turned out to be a well of inspiration and growth;
I hoped my time in my wilderness would take the same route by committing to do one year of yoga!
Although it didn’t literally say it, I definitely hoped 365 yoga sessions would magically fix something that had been haunting me for as long as the Slippery When Wet tour and New Jersey Syndicate tour together.

The good news is: It DID magically fix it!
But definitely not in the way I expected it would.
And my stay in the wilderness was definitely extended by a day or 10.

So as I write you, fully renewed and feeling better than I have in years, and more committed to both my yoga schedule as well as my work as a writer, yoga teacher and business coach, I m telling you;
The magic never works the way you think it does.
But it does work.

It reminds me of the key mechanism to solution-focused information products, some of which I bought and some I only followed a long webinar that bullet-pointed the content that you would get in the full package.
They would always guarantee that the formula or 5 step program, would help you fix your problem.

On an unrelated note: These packages usually came with a money-back guarantee but in the fine-print it then said that you had to send in your homework for the first two modules or something, before you would get your money back.
We’re talking 5 years back or more, maybe it changed.
But I always thought it was a breach of privacy, since they are not entitled to your personal story for what in most countries would be a consumer right of return.
But my study of these info-products designed to “magically fix” f.e. your love life, did teach me an important lesson to what works, why it works, and what the key mechanism is.
Which is not that the program they give you brings you something: But it is that you have to let something go, or you have to acquire a certain skill or mindset in order to be able to adopt or implement the program.

For example, if I told you the solution to all your problems is in a jar on the absolute top shelf of a stockroom, you will immediately start figuring out how to reach it.
Maybe a truck, maybe a ladder, but you’d focus on how to get there.
And this changes something in you; You learn how to drive a forklift, or you befriend a forklift driver. You start searching the premises looking for equipment that could help raise you up.
You overcome your fear of heights or your fear of talking to people.

By the time you reach the jar, you’re no longer the same person. And very likely the person who takes that jar of the shelf no longer has the same problem your old self had.

After you ve implement the 5 steps for a better love life, you ve overcome so many fears and taken on several challenges that would have held you back otherwise.
The solution didn’t really come because you now have those 5 things in place, but because of who you had to become to get them there.

The same way my yoga challenge is working, and has worked.
And the past 10 plus days reminded me of that ladder/ forklift wisdom, that I had forgotten.

I realized that although my instincts had been right to set out on the yoga challenge; That the change was never going to come from the daily yoga, or the 365 yoga sessions.
But from overcoming the challenges to get that daily yoga in place.

I got to the magic jar, on the top shelf of the stockroom.

top-shelf

adjective

BRITISH

(of a magazine) pornographic.
NORTH AMERICAN

of a high quality; excellent.

“some top-shelf cars are shipped overseas”

Definitely not asking any money back!

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1 Year Of Yoga, 365 sessions

No yoga (Wilderness!): Sunday 24 April – Sunday May 1, Tuesday May 3
Yoga days: Monday May 2 (day 12), Wednesday May 4 (day 14)
Yoga sessions: session 3, session 4, session 5
Bon Jovi cds:
Bon Jovi, Bon Jovi (1984)
Fahrenheit (1985)
Slippery (1986).
duration: 3 yoga sessions of about 45 minutes
Type of yoga: 2x White Tigress yoga and 1x standing poses from free Bon Jovi manual. See below for: “Sources I do yoga with:”
Final songs always relaxation

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Pure Rock Star Yoga is a free flowing form of movement (improvisation) without following a system. Just music.

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day 2 The Wilderness | 365 days

Published on 23 April 202223 April 2022 by Suzanne BeenackersLeave a comment

In 1990 Jon Bon Jovi released a successful album Blaze of Glory. The MTV interview with Julie Brown visiting his rented villa in Hollywood hills, was an absolute joy to watch! Video below post.

These 365 days of yoga are not inspired by YouTube and Instagram challenges (unsurprisingly, since I don’t even have Instagram), nor by the ageless wisdom of doing yoga everyday.
Instead it is exclusively rooted in an early 21st century challenge of writer Julie Powell, blogging and cooking her way through Julia Child’s French cookbook in one year.

There were over 500 recipes, and she gave herself a year to cook them all.

In her footsteps, I ve committed myself to a year of yoga and blogging too. And although there will be days when I choose a short yoga practice rather than skipping a day, yesterday (day 2!) I could feel the reality of what it means to have this yoga challenge rooted in her cooking challenge, and not in the tradition of having daily habits.
I felt in my bones, this really is an entirely different thing.

That squeezing in a one-song yoga practice and skipping blogging, which would have been the deal yesterday since it was already past midnight before I had time, was in absolutely no way contributing to what MY practice, and THIS challenge was about.

That nor I, nor this challenge, were about ticking off days in linear sense, where a day is 24 hours to do your yoga;
And instead it’s, well for one, more about the journey than about accomplishing anything. But as far as it is about an accomplishment, then it is about the total amount of yoga sessions.
Just like it is about the total amount of recipes.

And I like blogging, I like writing about it as well.

Although I do not expect to write a blogpost about every of the 365 yoga sessions;
There will be many.

So today’s session was with the album I originally intended to do yoga with yesterday; Blaze of Glory.
Jon Bon Jovi’s 1990 solo album for the movie Young Guns II.
Now this all sounds pretty dry, but it is actually the most exciting, storytelling-dense period of Jon Bon Jovi’s career, as the band was coming down from over half a decade of almost back to back touring.
Things had started to fall apart.

When in February 1990, the lights went out of that final concert in Guadalajara, Mexico, they could have gone out for good.

And it was in that state, where Jon didn’t even know if there still was a band, that he took on this project of writing the soundtrack for the cowboy movie Young Guns two.
Cowboys had been a theme that spoke to Jon from the earliest days of Bon Jovi. And for those who go looking for it, you can find traces of their presence on nearly every Bon Jovi album.
Musically, and lyrically.

But writing the soundtrack for Young Guns II would be the only time Jon allowed himself free rein, and take on the renegade identity in full.

The result was a record that traded the pounded and paved road of the world famous band Bon Jovi, for the dusty terrain of New Mexico.
It resulted in unexpected collaborations with an array of other artists, in an award winning record, and in Jon Bon Jovi finding himself.

He embraced the wilderness, the work of writing and recording; He even enjoyed the press release in what you could call a pr-collaboration with MTV comedian Julie Brown.
By letting go of the idea of being in a band called Bon Jovi, and fully going with what he was guided to;
He reinvented his music, his lyrics and himself.

Challenges are never about ticking things off.

They’re about following Spirit and following the road you are shown.

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yoga journal Saturday APRIL 23

Bon Jovi cd: Blaze of Glory, 26 July 1990.
duration: about 45 minutes
yoga + final song relaxation, Dying Ain’t Much of a Livin’

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day 1 Daily Bon Jovi Yoga | 365 days kickoff

Published on 21 April 202222 April 2022 by Suzanne BeenackersLeave a comment

Me, April 3, 2014. And a vision I can only dream of! Perhaps after 365 days of Daily Bon Jovi Yoga?!

I have trouble keeping my eyes open, that’s how tired I am. It was a very long day, and after what will probably be the most fundamental but also the most difficult weeks of 2022.
Although we’ve all learned not to count on the worst being over by worldly standards, but yeah.
On a personal level, I would not wish these weeks upon my proverbial worst enemy.

And the context of today explains more than just why I m tired.
It explains why I need a project, a bigger vision, to rescue me!
Or at least prevent me from hitting cliffs and getting lost. Like a beacon.

I m finally committing to Daily Bon Jovi Yoga, the way I originally planned to do, when I founded this site. And since we’ll be seeing each other blogging every day for the upcoming year, I allow myself to keep it short.
There are after all 364 days left to explain myself.

This streak of 365 days in a row is inspired by the 2010 movie Julie & Julia (trailer) where a blogger, Julie, starts a challenge to cook from Julia Child’s classic French cookbook, which has over 500 recipes in it.
Like me, she needed something to give her a sense of direction. The cooking project helps her to see beyond her everyday worries.

My Daily Bon Jovi Yoga Project is:
– to practice yoga with one vintage Bon Jovi album (-1995)
– a song or multiple songs from the deep-cut list from that same era ( Bon Jovi 1984/85-1995 Deep cuts and cover songs (live))
– or to do yoga with (part of) a concert, or live performance from that era.

The yoga is 100% freestyle.
I do not plan, track or even remember any of it.

The only goal is to see if one year from now, I feel better than I have in the past weeks, the past years.
And maybe even to find out if the girl in reclined hero’s pose, on her pink yoga mat – a photo from 2014 I recently recovered- to see if in 365 days she’s here again.

With her eyes closed, but not because she’s so worn out.
But because she’s laughing.

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yoga journal THURSDAY APRIL 21

Bon Jovi cd: New Jersey, 19 September 1988.
duration: a little under 1 hour
yoga + final 2 songs relaxation, 99 In the Shade and Love for Sale

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Writing first, yoga second, and life will just have to figure itself out.

Published on 16 April 202216 April 2022 by Suzanne BeenackersLeave a comment

April 3, 2014 in reclined hero’s pose.

March 2014 in “tortoise pose”

photos: Early 2014, in my yoga space. I no longer own a business nor a studio space, I stopped December 2020.

I m writing this after a satisfying breakfast, still in my bathing robe and already halfway through a can of black coffee.
To be behind a computer AM, is a familiar sighting. But I have not written for this blog in a while. And for the past four years I rarely let myself write first thing in the morning.
Because I know little will get done after it.

Things I am allowed to do in the morning are:
Yoga, cycling, anything on my schedule, appointments and so on, and getting a new business going (something you sell) and if that feels too overwhelming, then create videos;
Make Bon Jovi/ yoga/ business videos for my three YouTube channels.

Show yourself, share yourself, share your work, so you can later add a business model to them.
And since visual communication has won the 21st century, and because being visible, was going to be at the heart of a new career, then we all know text don’t count.

We all know that in the real world, writing is merely a tool, something people use to sell something real. Writing pour le writing, is something only a fool would spend their time on.
Let alone someone pushing 50 who is without career. Someone like that is in a hurry! And picking up a pen is about as constructive as online gambling. Just that with writing you lose time and your day, not money.
But since they all say that time is the only real true currency, whether losing time is actually better than a gambling addiction remains debatable.

But I think you get the idea why I m not going to waste time with something as futile as writing.
I still believe that if it had not been for the pandemic, my career in yoga would have transformed into something new. That it would have been a reinvention, not a finalizing. But that’s all water under the bridge now.

So to be honest, I don’t care that writing gives my life meaning, that it’s the only thing I m good at, and that I want to do it each morning and the only thing people (usually writers) envy me for and that I know how to do daily, and full of passion.
Because if it’s not making me money?
If it’s not writing I use to sell something?
Then at age 50, it goes on the pile with gambling addiction and other bad life habits.

Or it goes on the pile of habits I m allowed to do if I get up at 5 AM, and I can indulge myself in before my real job starts.
Which is the timeslot writing will end up soon, now that I have burned all business models to the ground.
For this post, I will limit myself to discussing the yoga business model, but there has been more abandoning and walking away from. It all had to go.

What has happened in the past four years is that because I knew it is better to make money as an entrepreneur – because you have multiple clients, multiple services and multiple income streams – than it is to make money being employed, because you only have one income stream – and because I love marketing and sales, I have looked for ways to start a new business and tried out a few too.
But the most exciting one has been something I called Rock Star Yoga.

Rock Star Yoga was going to be a blend of teaching yoga in real life, whether locally or nationally and even internationally;
Of making YouTube videos, and of sharing my own practice through this blog, Daily Bon Jovi Yoga.

Where writing or business coaching, my two other skills for which I am qualified and that I can monetize, need work in order to be able to sell it; And would cost me hours for which I would get paid immediately or afterwards;
Rock Star Yoga didn’t have any of that.

The vision I had of being together doing Rock Star Yoga, WAS the Rock Star Yoga.
Just like a concert IS, the highest form of performance for an artist.
And an album, is their most tangible form of music.

The reason that within the immaterial arts, almost nobody is an artist or a rock star, is because you need to stay away from the things that make you money in the short run such as:
Cover band/ tribute band, teaching your skill, making courses.

If yoga is my art (and it is) then it is an immaterial art form, and I must stay away from selling it as yoga.

Since July 2019, one year after I took my first steps on the path of slowing down my regular yoga business to give way to something new, I have known that something I called Rock Star Yoga, was going to be my second career in yoga.
Unsurprisingly, it has been a terribly rocky path!
So July 2019 to April 2022, that’s two years and 9 months, before the uncomfortable truth sank in that if Rock Star Yoga was art then I had to ruthlessly pull the plug on selling my yoga at cover band, tribute band level, or selling my yoga as a yoga teacher, ever again.
I still hope to one day live in a big house, where I teach yoga to friends in my home studio. Just like artists have a home studio, where they play and record.

But even the idea of giving yoga shows, events where I teach;
Even that exciting idea that dissipated this week.
It’s gone.
Not just the small hope that I would teach locally, but the big vision too.
It’s all gone.

Thursday morning I woke up with the idea of starting to teach. I knew a location that would be ideal for Rock Star Yoga!
Excited that after 4 years of introspection and downsizing my yoga, I finally had a big vision AND a local, more sustainable vision for building a day to day yoga business, I contacted them.
But something in the communication felt so completely off, and I could just see how it was all related to the reality of building a yoga business.
This no longer worked for me.
Having a brick and mortar business, is a calling in and of itself.

What I had not realized is that once you re used to sharing your work online, there is just no going back into the real world.
Rock Star Yoga, cannot exist in a pinpointed, packaged up, tangible fashion, within four walls and with a company registered at the chamber of commerce.
Not as service, not as art, not as artist, and then subsequently also, not as a business.

Rock Star Yoga cannot exist unless someone has Rock Star Yoga as their calling like I have writing as my calling.
Business, teaching, a brick and mortar location, Rock Star Yoga?
They are all things that need your full attention.

Having four blogs here, three other blogs elsewhere, 16 years of writing under my belt and with my desk calling me every morning, and me ignoring that calling with the mightiest of might for the past four years?
Dealing with anything else than writing?
Is attention I don’t have.

I am only a writer, even if being only a writer is not a real thing.
Then I will make my peace with not being a real thing.

The upcoming years I will share everything I know about yoga on my YouTube channels, and develop Rock Star Yoga, or see “what it wants to be”, as it evolves, day by day. I will write here on this blog, about doing yoga and about Rock Star Yoga.
And I will also share what I know about business, on my Rock Your Business YouTube.

But what I will probably not share, is how blessed you are if you do not have a an irrepressible urge to be creative every morning.
Maybe you even have a writer’s block!
Cherish it, it means you can make something out of your life!

I have numbed out my urge to write with Netflix, with food (I m at my heaviest ever), alcohol, –
I can’t think of more. Those are the only three that have been strong enough to numb it out.

So I m just going to accept that all I want to do is write, and that everything else is just going to have to take care of itself.
Because after four years of trying to reinvent my yoga career or any career, my yoga business or any business;
And gaining ten kilos and consuming countless Netflix series instead?
I m done.
I failed.

Writing first. Yoga second, maybe.

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The 38 minutes and homemade yoga bolster, that could have saved me

Published on 13 February 202213 February 2022 by Suzanne BeenackersLeave a comment

I am “Forrest Gumping” myself into getting some sort of system to
– blog daily
– do yoga daily
– get my daylight and exercise outdoor;
And then – a girl can dream! – it would be nice to actually get some work done as well.

Last week’s celebrational claim that I was finally feeling better and was no longer losing the first half of my day to sickness, proved to be as inspiring as it was prematurely.

So with the first hours of my day still being gnawed at, by Life;
And me STILL not being consistent with the only thing that prevents a slow start, which is to radically cap all social time, worktime, and screen time to 7 PM, and only do yoga and housekeeping in the evenings
(a sacrifice I am apparently not willing to make in full) (or at all);
Under those circumstances, what I consider to be “planning”, feels more like Forrest Gumping.

Or maybe as something that would have gotten better results, if I actually had stopped making it so complicated, trying to control things, and had just put one foot in front of the other.
After all, I don’t know if you are familiar with the movie, but Forrest Gump’s approach turned out to be very successful, and it brought him far in life.
And he did not make it as complicated as I do.

So I don’t think I do him justice when I say I m “Forrest Gumping” myself through these first days where I struggle to make the Daily Bon Jovi blog, as well as the daily yoga itself to become non-negotiable elements of my day for the rest of my life.
Because Forrest would have given it less thought, and gotten it right.
Instead of giving it a lot of thought, and still getting it wrong.

“Entirely wrong?” I hear you say 😉
No, not entirely.
I am doing daily yoga, it’s just that the blogging part requires more thought. The times I wrote it after 7 PM, I paid for it dearly by handing over the first half of the next day, to pay for my sins.

So I will spent the first available desk hour of my day to writing this blog.
And yoga after 7 PM, unless I have an evening activity, and then I ll do it earlier.

One important reason I am attached to doing yoga at night time, is because although as a writer I am free to plan my workhours as I like, most people work daytime hours.

If I would do my #dailybonjoviyoga during regular office hours, I think it would be less relatable, than if I set it up to have to fit a life that is not about yoga.

I want my daily yoga be squeezed in at the edges of a workday, so that we are all on the same page.

And since I do not have access to my mornings, and also because I love squeezing in as many desk hours before noon as I can (it used to work up to 6 hours before noon!), I will never choose the mornings to do yoga.
Although the morning is the most common time to yoga, traditionally. For both people who have jobs as well as for yoga teachers.

But I have chosen the night, the evening, to be the time I practice yoga, #dailybonjoviyoga.

I share all these ins and outs about when to practice, and what my reasons were behind it, because I want to illustrate the struggle of picking a time, the struggle all of us who are not Forrest Gump, and who do not automatically choose right, might face;
As well as that I want to invite you to experiment with it. Try things out to get it right.

I don’t endorse micromanaging your day, but understanding the building blocks of your day, and moving them around until they work, pays off.
All your activities have an ideal time to be done;
And just saying “first things first” is a simplification.

You wouldn’t organize a rock concert at 11 AM.
The same way committing to yoga may involve some juggling, finding the right timeslot when it rocks.

So within this process of juggling yoga, I found myself practicing the first Bon Jovi album, from 1984, yesterday at 10PM.
It is only 38 minutes long, and I had chosen this album for its shortness.
And because I was feeling dizzy and unstable, I chose restorative yoga, which is the final page from our free download

Restorative yoga used to be a bit of a mixed bag to teach, in my video classes as well as a large portion of studio classes .
This is because they require quite some equipment, most notably a yoga bolster, which is a long sturdy pillow.

Where other yoga equipment, such as yoga blocks and yoga belts, can easily be replaced with a stack of books or a regular belt, the yoga bolster requires more work.
And most yoga studios I have worked in, with the exception of my own yoga studio, did not have bolsters for their students.
What I did in those studios, ideally, is to use two round, high, meditation cushions, instead of one bolster. But if I had a full class, there were not enough of them.
So then I could not teach restorative yoga.

With the few full-length video classes I gave in 2020 I got more creative, and found a benefit of teaching online.
Because people at home can make a bolster by rolling up one or two blankets or sleeping bags, in a roll that is about a meter long.
IKEA also seems to be stocking bolster-esque pillows, currently. Mojlighet. But I have not seen them or tested these ones they are selling right now.

Sales of bolster-like pillows by IKEA have been erratic, and when they are for sale it sure pays off to get them while stocks last.
Pre-pandemic we have had three to five years without these pillows at IKEA.

But like I said, you can also roll up one or multiple blankets into a sturdy, one-meter long roll.

The yoga I did was the restorative yoga at the final page (schedule 8) page from our free download
But you can also check YouTube for “restorative yoga” or “yoga with bolster”, if you prefer to be guided.

restorative yoga, schedule 8 from our free download

There are 7 poses in the schedule, and 9 songs on the album Bon Jovi-Bon Jovi.

Practiced pose 1-5, in one-song-each fashion, with song 1-5.

Poses 6 (“backbend”) and 7 (“variation butterfly legs”) are backbends and I do not recommend holding them for a whole song. I practiced these poses during song 6 and 7, but by alternating them.
So let’s say pose 6 for a while, then 7, then back to 6, then 7. And so on.

I used song 8 and 9 for relaxation.

During practice my emotions went from feeling I was cutting corners because I wasn’t practicing standing poses, or other what I would consider “real” yoga poses, and had chosen for the shortest Bon Jovi album and the easiest set of poses;
To one of understanding this was really all it took.

That “only” doing restorative poses, is really all the yoga anyone ever really needs to make a change in health, relaxation, stress-release.
And that 38 minutes is more than enough.

All those years where I struggled to find a practice, and even to an extend the most recent years where I start-stopped doing Bon Jovi yoga, or Rock Star Yoga.
The years where instead of keeping it simple, I thought about it, got frustrated, didn’t feel it, and so on.

Yesterday, doing this 38 minute restorative yoga practice with a ten year old IKEA bolster, doing the easiest most relaxing poses I knew, I realized;
This is really all it takes.

But Forrest Gump would have been able to tell you that 1600 words ago.

BON JOVI – BON JOVI, 1984, 38 MINUTES

This is the track list:

1.Runaway
Jon Bon Jovi, George Karak
2. Roulette
Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora
3. She Don’t Know Me
Mark Avsec
4. Shot Through the Heart
Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Ponti
5. Love Lies.
Jon Bon Jovi, David Rashbaum
6. Breakout
Jon Bon Jovi, David Rashbaum
7. Burning for Love
Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora
8. Come Back
Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora
9. Get Ready
Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora

Hitting the yoga mat tonight, probably with These Days.
And I will catch you tomorrow!
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yoga journal Saturday February 12

starting time: 10 PM
duration: 38 minutes, 9 songs
🎶🎸 Bon Jovi cd: Bon Jovi-Bon Jovi (1984)

type of yoga: I used our free download
Bon Jovi Yoga Set List 2.0 – yoga framework incl sticky men schedules
and practiced schedule 8
8. lying butterfly or restorative yoga with props
9. long relaxation, final 2 songs, Come Back and Get Ready

About me:
After 2 years, I’m my old self again! | daily yoga kickoff
About Daily Bon Jovi Yoga and Rock Star Yoga:
Uncovering Rock Star Yoga; A Journey

Sources Daily Bon Jovi Yoga:
1. free download, this is a 17 page guide
Bon Jovi Yoga Set List 2.0 – yoga framework incl sticky men schedules
2. White Tigress Yoga Workbook
You can find this book at the bottom of this page:
https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rockstarwriter
3. Rock Star Yoga
Pure Rock Star Yoga is a free flowing form of movement (improvisation) without following a system. Just music.

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2 YouTube: Life lessons in Bon Jovi songs
rebooting within days! -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXpNMsIFP2U34A0yBKk8PUQ
As part of our work together, I will also be making Rock Star Yoga or #dailybonjoviyoga videos for this channel, scheduled for starting in June 2022.

3 YouTube: yoga met Suzanne Beenackers (Nederlands)
start snel weer op -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA81I4RdVvgtGK99T3Io3Ew

other:
yoga on YouTube by me:
PRO videos 2015 2016
Archive home yoga – English

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beginner friendly playlists from my channel:
I m currently restoring my older work. New yoga videos to support our Daily Bon Jovi Yoga / Rock Star Yoga are set for late June.

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The music of a generation. And the next.

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The foe of video

🧘🏼‍♀️ the (lack of) #dailybonjoviyoga to rock n’roll hall of Fame, 2 sept 1995

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restorative yoga, schedule 8 from our free download

yoga journal Saturday February 12

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