Tongue in cheek

I recently considered the option of changing my social media business identity/name from “Lisa Danbrot Real Estate Yoga” to “Lisa Danbrot Real Estate Art” (along with the massive imprint such a change could make). I decided to stick with “Lisa Danbrot Real Estate Yoga”, here is why:

What I have studied under the canopy of yoga, how I interpret yoga and what I practice as yoga in life incorporates all planes, categories, activities and transactions of life, (including those of R.E, hence “real estate yoga”),  

...As a side note, it always confounds me when people raise their eyebrows if I express anger or dissatisfaction. I've had fingers wagged at me while being scolded: “You teach yoga, you are not supposed to get angry”. Come again? The lineage of yoga I subscribe to does not negate or deny any human emotion or experience, thank goodness.

Yoga practice can be a physical pursuit, but is not isolated to a practice of movement (or stillness for that matter). In fact, one can potentially have an experience of yoga through any set of circumstances.

(If you are confused or curious about my allusion to yoga, come visit me in class at South Mountain Yoga in South Orange NJ or Baker Street Yoga in Maplewood NJ. Plug.)

But I digress...my background in the making of art, the business of art and my resulting perspective on life as a potentially artful endeavor, (consciousness and context allowing) is as much of a lens on life as that which I experience through yoga.

So I’ll keep “Lisa Danbrot Real Estate Yoga” instead of “Lisa Danbrot Real Estate Art” because I could be either and am both, and because “Lisa Danbrot Real Estate Yoga Art” is too much of a mouthful.

"Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development" 

- Robert Smithson