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Airplane Shenanigans with the whole crew! Sending love to everyone!

#snatamkaur #bythygracetour

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💜 not sure about words right now. Love this pic so much, and all 3 of these amazing women who have been and are a big part of my life.

The sweet amazing beauty on the right, my sweet pal @aysecerami has left our realm too soon.

I was in the middle of figuring out how to get myself to LA to see her. I was told I would need to come soon. I was making a plan to drive down later this week. Last couple of nights I would wake up feeling like just driving right down. Tonight was one of those nights. I didn't make it in time. I wish I did but I know she was surrounded in love and support till the end.

Love you forever, Ayse 💔💜

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Epic end to an awesome weekend! Getting to ride the big dipper, excuse me, Giant Dipper and Santa Cruz Beach boardwalk with 2 of my besties.
3 days of Pilates training with Surreyya, and Amy happened to be teaching in the room next door at the same studio.
Surreyya's requirement for joining was that she get a scoop of soft serve. Delivered!🍦

I think the last time I rode the rides at the boardwalk was sometime in my 20s!

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⚡️ @heatherdiannemoon ⚡️ #studioiqaat

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Come Celebrate with us!
We have a Double Anniversary show on Thurdsay July 30th. Underground Nomads is celebrating 13 years in SF, and 13 years to the date at F8.
Peepshow is celebrating 10 years in SF. We are so happy to have been collaborating with them over the past few years.

As part of the 13 year Anniversary, we are celebrating the music and life of our co-founder and inspiration Cheb i Sabbah with special performances to his music and DJ Amar bringing back some old school Nickie's vibes.

We have a big lineup for this one, one of our biggest lineups ever. Jill Parker will be doing a solo, a student group piece and a group piece with Mind's Eye. We are so excited to have Wendy Marlatt back after a very long time. Miss Kelly too. In addition to long time and recently joined residents Shondell, May Yang, Surreyya, Fayzah and Natalie Nayun, we are happy to welcome Blue Dahlia featuring Yuka and Nina. Peepshow brings the drag burlesque variety with Sophilya Leggz, Wicked Dollia, Bobby Ashton, Coral T Gypsy, Pearl E Gates and Coeur De Noir.

NOTE: EARLY SHOW
Doors 7pm
Performance sets at 7:30, 8:30 and 9:15pm. We end at 10pm (you are welcome to stay for the club night after).

We are asking for a sliding scale $10-30 donation, and tips. Cash or venmo at the door.

Very limited seating, so arrive early if you want to grab a seat.

F8 - 1192 Folsom St., SF
21+ ID required.

https://facebook.com/events/s/underground-nomads-13-years-pe/1547945240198296/

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Underground Nomads is Celebrating 13 Years, to the date at F8.
PeepShow SF is celebrating 10 years in SF.
Join us for a Special Night celebrating the music and life of our co-founder and inspiration Cheb i Sabbah.

DJ Amar will play a Cheb i Sabbah inspired DJ set reminiscent of Cheb i Sabbah's legendary Tuesdays at Nickie's where Amar would sub when Chebiji was on tour.

Dance Performance lineup is in the works, and will include Isabel Perdomo, May Yang, Shondell, Surreyya and more to be announced soon.

Save the Date. More deets on the way.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1547945240198296/

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We’re celebrating the 2nd anniversary of The Evergreen Dance Revue on June 5th! We hope you’ll come join us - not only for an amazing show but for some open dance time as well!

Get your tickets now for June 5! Link in bio ♥️

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April. The road ❤️
I’m a little late, and not even really sure how to sum this one up!

We share thousands of miles and a closeness that builds when you sit side by side, eat together, spill to each other, hold each other, play together night after night, when you’ve had that ritual for years.

Sometimes, I look at these guys on stage, and I already know what’s about to happen. Times I look at them off stage, and I see the joke flash through their eyes before the peals of laughter sound. Music and feeling thinks through us all, at once.

These were some of the most alive concerts I’ve ever been a part of. It’s what’s happening on stage, and what is shared in the room.

Here’s the thing when you’re on a stage. There is responsibility there. To not disappear into the distance it can create. Even when you can’t see your audience, you have to know
 there is no real separation.

People use words like ‘divine’, ‘heavenly’, but the truth is much more human. Messy and beautifully imperfect. Closer to animals, closer to instinct. It is breath, rhythm, attention, acceptance, presence. Something that belongs to all of us.

And then, away from the stage, friends who fly across the world to be with you. Family, who with a single message, offer support from every direction. People who gather and show up without hesitation.

Luck is a terrible metric for a life. And yet, I can’t help but think about how lucky I am…

April was a gift.
When you continue to learn what connection is, it also shows you what it isn’t.

But hey, here we are. We keep showing up. For each other, in the music, in the joy, in the mess, in the quiet…
It might just be one of the most essential things we are here to do ❤️

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There is so much joy and laughter on this tour, I just have to share it with you all! Some of my favorite moments on tour happen in between everything, the walks and laughs, so much dancing, fun and quiet little snapshots that no one else really sees!

My team, @bruno.justi @sukhmanimusic @ramdassmusic @electricvardo, is a prayer answered. This life on the road really works because of the love and care we have for each other. There is so much love, so much support, and such a natural way of being together. The way we listen and weave together on stage…it’s the same way we hold and support each other off stage too!

We really are a little family out there and I couldn’t be more grateful for this team, this music, all the moments we get to share, and then being able to share them with you 😘

#snatamkaur #bythygracetour

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Moment in Poland with the band

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March, reflections. Reminders.
Some of you might already know, I’ve recently spent some time moving through a kind of pain I’ve never quite known before. A pain I’d previously brushed against, tasted without quite having the tongue for it. This time it was not as peripheral. I am well and truly rearranged.

Toward the mouth of the lion I was thrust, and into it I walked.

At its heaviest, being awake was unbearable. But in the breaking, a strange clarity begins to arise.

I am not afraid of pain.

This pain is not my enemy. It is not something to be rushed toward or away from. It strips away illusions, exposes the bones of old or false truths, and demands that we sit still long enough to actually notice.

Sure, it is proof of injury, but also, of connection. And, as ever, to feel deeply, even when it scalds, is evidence that we are, in fact, Alive. Here.

I wish I had something profound to offer anyone reading this, but I don’t. I only have small reflections that, however cliché may sound, are real to me.

Though the feelings might be real, the conclusions aren’t always. Stay with it. Accept it. Be patient. And know when to move. For when everything seems to be coming apart, something else, something precious, is taking shape in the ruins.

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