Saying farewell to 2025, and hello to 2026.

Wow, friend—- can you believe another year has passed? What a year it has been!

Together, so far in 2025, we have:

• Danced 271 delicious dances.

• Had a glorious photo & videoshoot thanks to Cat, Jon, and Rowan.

• Enjoyed an incredible 3rd Perseidsfest.

• Raised $856.96 for the food bank with our fundraiser Zoom dance.

• Raised $525 for House of Hope with another beauuuuutiful Sunset Aya in the Orchard.

• Enjoyed our 1st Aya & Somatic Meditation in the gardens.

• And met so many wonderful new Aya friends!

We’ve explored 34 wonderful foci together:

• Aiming upward & enjoying the ride.

• Moving for the PURE JOY of it.

• Nourishing our body with a variety of movement intensities.

• Connection.

• Shining your light.

• Freeing our eyes.

• Gratitude even when...

• Listening to pain & pleasure.

• Embracing pleasure.

• The down-up dance.

• Exploring our needs for routine & novelty.

• Embracing novelty.

• Savoring familiarity & routine.

• Our sense-itive skin.

• Let's check-in with our posture.

• Taking up space & being seen.

• Gratitude.

• Permission to feel joy.

• Permission to feel ________.

• The sensations of LOVE-ing.

• Savoring the moment.

• Lightening up.

• Sensing your strength.

• Choosing courage, improvement, helpfulness, and enjoyment over perfection.

• More things we can choose over perfection.

• Practicing listening.

• Listening to your body.

• Sensing how it feels to PLAY.

• November self-care reset.

• Practicing gratitude (via our senses).

• Radiating gratitude.

• Letting ourselves get a little weirder.

• Connecting with our inner light.

• Embracing spaciousness, silence, stillness, & rest.

  
  

Thank you so much for joining me in all of these deep dives, week after week!

Were there any this past year that really stood out for you?

Any favorites? Any that were especially helpful? I’d absolutely LOVE to hear, if you ever want to share. Please reply anytime.

I loved them all, but I think getting weirder, letting myself play, choosing courage over perfection, sensing our strength, and embracing spaciousness, stillness, silence, and rest, were some that felt especially impactful for me this year.

Want to look back at any of them? I have them all archived for us here >>

We also wove 67 new songs into our classes!

They’ve helped us move in so many beautiful ways, and feel so many feelings.

This year we added:

• Good Thing Going

• Make It Look Easy

• For the First Time

• Adama - Scott Nice Remix

• Savanna Sultana

• Best Life

• Ajai Alai

• I Am Enough

• Love it the Medicine

• Magic Room

• Show Up

• Work For It

• Good Day for a Good Day

• Dancing My Way

• Nothing But Trust

• All of You is Welcome Here

• There is Only Love

• Enjoy the Ride

• Wolfpack

• Wild

• Togather

• Good Good Day

• This Is Me

• The Crocodile

• Ale-Sofi - Captain Planet Remix

• Rood Down Deep

• Move Slow

• Suave

• Good Morning

• This Feeling

• Bowing Down in Grace

• Midnight Hum

• Moving

• Magnetic Kid

• Questo Swing

• Sunny Days

• Keep It Groovin’

• Find Your Way

• Summer Heat

• Into the Wild —KR3TURE Remix

• Celebrate Together Now

• Lean In

• Musiquita - Mose Remix

• Everyone Sing

• It Is What It Is

• Makin’ a Move

• I Am Wild

• What a Wonderful World (Sofi Tukker)

• Born to Become

• New Me

• Gopala Lullaby

• Flow

• You Got to Move

• Blue Sky Mind

• A Song for Your Heart

• We're On Our Way

• For Those Who Want

• You Are the Best Thing

• Joy Generation

• Gatluak - Bakermat Remix

• Cup of Tea

• Hello Sunshine

• Blood Runs Deep

• Walk My Walk

• Drift Away

• There She Is Again

• Human Nature

Enjoy them all in our “New Aya Songs of 2025” playlist >>

Some of them I love (and play) so often, I can’t even imagine there was ever a time we Aya’d without them! I’ve played Best Life, Dancing My Way, Walk My Walk, Human Nature, It Is What It Is, There She Is Again, and Everyone Sing so much this year, I feel like I’ve danced with them my whole life.

How about you, friend?

Were there any new songs from this year that really stood out for you?

Any favorites? Any you’ve had on repeat this year? I’d love to hear! Please reply back and share anytime!

We’ve danced through so much this year.

It’s been another trip around the sun, filled with life ups and downs, and I’m so glad we surfed the waves together.

Life’s joys. Sorrows. Celebrations. Loss. Diagnoses. Disappointments. Exciting changes. Grief. Uncertainties. Great opportunities. Challenges. New jobs. Times of great health. Health challenges. Finding new love. Heartbreak. Moves. Recovery. Starting new jobs. Pregnancy. Infertility. Graduations. Promotions. Day-to-day beauty. Parenting challenges. Relationships. Wonderful times. Surgeries. Kids going off to college. Home renovations. Perimenopause. Menopause. Beautiful vacations. Reaching of new goals. Holidays. Blissful new beginnings. And so much more…

We don’t always talk about what we’re going through. But we dance together through it all.

Thank you for being here.

For you.

For me.

For all of us.

I mean it, friend. I’m so glad you’re a part of it all.

The connection we get to share —-the togetherness through life— is everything.

Thank you.

This week, we’ll start out by dancing our farewells to 2025. Then, on New Year’s Day, we’ll set the tone for a blissful 2026. We’ll move our bodies, connect in the here and now, and celebrate being joyfully alive.

Thanks again, friend.

I’m so looking forward to another year of dancing with you, and I can’t wait to see what we make happen together in 2026.

See you soon!

Much love,

💛 Dani