Work it Out Weekend

I’ll be doing the CrossFit Women’s Challenge (and winning it) Saturday morning, and may recover by hitting Empower Yoga for some free yoga to stretch out my soreness. Come Sunday, I can dance away the day for free!

Of course, there are tons of awesome shows this weekend too, but I’ll let Austin Eavesdropper tell you about those: Music and Parties This Week (there’s also Band of Heathens & Drew Smith at Antone’s for just $15 at the door).

Saturday:

• CrossFit Women’s Challenge – Trail Race & Workout … winner gets a full outfit by lululemon. We’re gonna win!!

(Side note: in 2 weeks, I will be participating in another CrossFit workout challenge called Fight Gone Bad, part of a national CrossFit workout. This one is gonna be outside on the Long Center veranda Sept 26th and will be AWESOME to see. You do max reps of 5 different exercises for a minute each, rest a minute, and go again, for three rounds. My last score was a 298. I’ve just gotta get over 300. Oh, and raise $150 for prostate cancer research and wounded warrior veterans’ funds. Donations, anyone? https://www.rapidreghost.com/fgb/php/frpage.php?frID=28618 )

• Empower Yoga Grand Opening

FREE yoga classes all day at the new studio on West Fifth, just off Mopac, next to Mean Eyed Cat. Vinyasa (regular-ish) from 9:30-11am and noon-1pm; Anusara Yoga (a unique blend of hatha yoga that combines bio-mechanical principles of alignment with a celebration of the heart … emphasizes backbends, arm balances, standing poses, forward bends & twists in creative sequences to help students deepen their practice) from 4:30-6pm.

Party in the evening from 7-10pm with a DJ, rolls from Sushi Zushi (review here), raw food from Beets Cafe (I still want to try! Review here), wine, and prizes!

• Sanctuary Printshop Grand Opening Party – 8pm-2am (4201 South Congress Ste. 317)

The screenprinter will have tons of free stuff: Open Bar (Dripping Springs Vodka, Sweet Leaf Tea, Red Bull) + Food (Wahoo’s) + T-Shirts + Posters + Cards + first 100 get St. Johnny Cash Candles … and DJ Battle Royale to see who can mix the best Johnny Cash/Hip Hop set

Sunday

• Free Day of Dance at Ballet Austin from 2-6pm (501 West Third Street at San Antonio Street)

Get your dance on! Two years ago, when the studio first opened, over 2,500 people showed up to dance! WOW!

• Srishti Show of Hope – A Performance for Asha for Education

A cool group of female dancers from India will perform classic and conventional forms of Srishti Creation dance at the Waldorf Performing Arts Center in support of a unique non profit organization dedicated to bringing socio-economic change in India mainly using the medium of education.

More info about the event: http://www.ashanet.org/austin/Srishti/

More info about the dancers: http://srishtithecreation.com/

Purchase tickets in advance: http://www.ashanet.org/austin/Srishti/tickets.html

The schools in India/projects that the Show of Hope will help support: http://www.ashanet.org/austin/Srishti/projects.html

Asha for Education – Austin chapter: http://www.ashanet.org/austin/

And a reward for anyone who made it to the end of the post: the first person to send me a video of them dancing to post on the site gets two free tickets! Oh, no one wants to do that? Fine, the first person to email me their most embarassing story involving dance (for publication on the blog) gets the tix. Don’t want to do that either? Email me SOMETHING funny, dammit!