11:30 pm, Geekesque Burlesque at the High Noon Saloon

Kitty LaRue said: “It is going to be a very geeky and naked scene!” And it was. Unfortunately, my camera screwed up for Kitty’s performance (which was awesome!!) so Madam Envy will have to suffice. Which is pretty okay!

- Thom Jones

Cajun Spice Band at The Bayou

Cajun Spice Band performs Friday at The Bayou New Orleans Style Tavern on South Butler Street. The restaurant is the backdrop of a cheese curds review.

- Cheezaholic1 via YouTube

- Brian Shore via Facebook

 

6-8 am, John Nolen bike path

Probably got some strange looks as a start of MyMadisonDay taking a frame every 20 seconds of the bike path heading towards downtown.

- Thom Jones

6:30 am, The Studio

The sun rose at 6:45 am this morning, the mid point of a morning yoga class at the The Studio. The outside temperature was around 50 degrees when the class began at 6:15 am. But with heat lamps on the ceiling and vents around the floor, the room glowed at ninety degrees and smelled like cedar. Eight students lined the walls with their mats.

Instructor Autumn Hensel, considers herself a “60 percent morning person,” preferring to wake up by 7 am When she can, she starts her day with yoga and a “big ‘ol breakfast with tea and flowers at the breakfast table.”

She’s been practicing yoga for ten years and teaching it for two. She’s taught the Friday morning class since last December. Hensel eases her students into the practice with a meditation time. And at the end of the class she talks them through the transition into their day.

Attendees include students, out-of-town visitors, people stopping in before work, and those who have the day off.

“I’m always inspired by those people who come in the door,” says Hensel.

Whether they come in for physical, mental, or spiritual reasons, Hensel sends them off after an hour, better prepared for the day.

“All the lessons that you learn from that practice just naturally fall into the rest of the day,” she says.

People featured in the video:
Autumn Hensel (instructor), Aja Lefebvre (program director)
Students: Alison Coulson, Katie Flottum, Ben Saffran, Tom Russell, Reed Bonner, and Mark Lindgren

- Nora Hertel

8:00 am, Vilas Park

Air Force ROTC doing calisthenics in the park before frisbee.

- Judith Davidoff