The Park Police asked us to put away our sticks and not bring them back at our last meeting. Since the sticks are a good 3/4 of what we know how to do in Stav, we decided to leave the National Mall.
Sadly within the entirety of Falls Church, Fairfax City and Fairfax County, there are no parks with lawn areas so close to a metro station. We are pondering locations in Arlington, but in order to not have to stop practicing just to find a park we can practice in, we decided to temporarily use Draper Dr. Park.
Draper Dr. park in Fairfax City is accessible from Vienna Metro via three busses. Cue bus Gold 2 towards George Mason goes right past it. Cue bus Gold 1 stops at both Kingsbridge and Blake and Fairfax Blvd (rt 50) and Draper Dr. They are equidistant from the park, but I think 50 and Draper feels closer. (if coming the other direction, gold 1 goes right past and gold 2 stops at those two locations) Lastly the 2B towards Arlington(Ballston i think) stops at Blake and Kingsbridge (though from a different direction). For driving directions, we recommend Google maps. Search on Draper Drive Park Fairfax VA 22031.
If you are interested, due to it’s closeness to our house, we can also meet earlier in the evening, but for now we are leaving it as Mondays 7-9 (more like 7-8:30).
If you are having trouble finding us in the park, cross diagonally from the entrance to the park and look for a high burm under the trees. If we’re not there take the walking path toward Ranger Rd. (straight walk from the park entrance area toward the trees). If all else fails, call my cell phone (if you don’t have it, just post a response to this post that gives me your email address and i’ll send it to you.
See you there.
Miki
It’s been a pretty wet spring so far, but when it HAS been dry, we’ve been meeting on the Mall. They’ve blocked off our normal areas for whatever reasons, so we may have to range further to find a valid spot this year, but unless the center section is full of softball or field hockey we’ll try to hang out there and stay near the metro.
If you can’t find us at all, you can try to call me. If you don’t have my number post a reply with your email (it won’t go up on the website, I’ll get it first for approval) and I’ll email you my cell phone number.
If it looks damp or rainy, if it is a code red or code orange day, assume we are cancelled. I will try to contact the mailing list if I’m cancelling, so these are broad suggestions, but i have a member who doesn’t email very often, and who’s phone number I have lost, so I wanted to give a broad set of rules. I’d rather you didn’t come when we were meeting than that you did come when we werent.
Keep your eyes posted here (or your RSS, whichever) for periodic meetings and courses over the winter, but otherwise DC Stav Club Martial Practice on the Mall is on haiatus until April.
I’d love to keep on meeting until the end of the month, but i’ve had no response to rsvp request for this week and I’m in Minnesota next week and there won’t be much left of the month after that.
We’ve never offered this course in this country before, so come out to Moonfire UUCA tonight at 7:30 to learn about how herbs integrate into the Stav mind/body/spirit system.
Tein seid – Herbalism in Stav (1.5 hr) – Using alternate translations of the words,Tein Seid means ‘thorough knowledge of the plants’. This course covers the stav approach to herbalism via the 18 Trees and Herbs and their applications on the Mott (physical body) and Megin (energy body) . This course extends from finding and gathering herbs to their uses in the body to their magical uses (charms etc) . The student should expect to leave with a good idea of the use of herbs and trees in Stav and even with one or two recipes for common ailments.
Location: Moonfire UUCA; 4444 Arlington Blvd; Arlington, VA
Date/Time: Today, 10/9/08 7:30-9pm
Cost: $30 at the door (no credit cards please) – Members of Moonfire UUCA, William Blake Lodge OTO and Ice and Fire USA receive $5 discount.
more information or to sign up online for a (further) $5 discount, visit http://iceandfire.us and choose “events”.
I’ve had a lot of cancellations today, so i’m going to do the class by RSVP. If anybody rsvp’s, i’ll be there too. If not, then I will stay home and clean house.
We’re switching our day to Monday for the trainings now.
See you mondays at the National Mall exit of the Metro!
DC Stav Club Monday 7-9 pm
Hi all,
I am thinking of starting up the season next Tuesday. However, that is tax day, so i will do it RSVP only. Reply to this post, or email me (or use the iceandfire.us contact form to contact DC Stav Club. If one or more people can make it, we’ll go ahead with it. If nobody says ‘i’ll be there” we will start up on the 22.
upd. 4/14/08 – what with the lack of RSVP’s and the fact that the Pope will be closing down massive portions of DC, i’m going to go ahead and NOT meet on the 15th.