My Podcast Returns
Dear readers and listeners,Today we celebrate the triumphant return of Common Shapes - my podcast about practices and systems for creative work.Art by Jess...
Creative Ideation Portal Day 1: Our Many Visions
Welcome to a new season of Common Shapes!We’re beginning with a mini series going over the free Creative Ideation Portal - a guide to help you vision your...
Building an Online World
Dear Reader,My new websiteI am beyond thrilled this morning to share with you my brand new website, a home on the web for all my projects, built with systems...
Fall Class Schedule
Photo by Cody SellsDear students of mine past, present, and future I wanted to present to you my Fall Schedule of Classes so you could get them on your...
Looking for the Anchors
Dear Reader,I am always in search of the anchors to my practice. What do I throw in to the water so that I don’t slip away? What do I let sink to the bottom...
Your Phone or Your Life?
Dear Reader,Today there is no regularly scheduled newsletter but I wanted to share a few short announcements.The amazing Holly Whitaker interviewed me on her...
Pilates Is Not My Job
Dear Reader,I have come to an important and profound decision. At this time I will not be folding Pilates into my job. I will not attempt to monetize...
Welcome to Cody's World
Dear Reader,Today I am completely reshaping my newsletter as a digital garden, a place that is new and improved.→ Free subscribers : Everything is the same,...
Welp, New Mexico Levied My Wages
Dear Reader,Last week I made a really big financial decision for my business. One of the biggest investments I have put into myself or the work I have done...
Me and My Little YouTube Channel
Dear Reader,It began as most ideas do, with a fleeting thought that would carry on for years and eventually cause me to hyper fixate for weeks on making it...
Will I Be The Only Fat Queer At Pilates?
Welcome to the Yes Yes Advice Column for paid subscribers of the Monday Monday newsletter. I write to you from the darkness of the early morning hours where...
No Users Found
Dear Reader,After thirteen years of using the app, and seven years of experimenting with deactivating, I finally deleted Instagram forever.No Users FoundNo...
That feeling of being washed up
Dear Reader,A friend recently had a dance workshop which used to sell out effortlessly only have four spots sell, two of them sliding scale. She described...
Marketing without Instagram: does it even work?
Dear Reader,Last weekend I taught one of my favorite workshops ever about self publishing. I quickly realized it should have been an entire semester long...
When love goes unseen
Dear Reader,There are kinds of love that don’t announce themselves. That weave through the shadows with grace and precision, leaving me feeling cherished...
Self Publishing as Documentation Practice
Public Access PilatesDear Reader,I find that every noticing can become a project, and every project begins as a noticing practice. A noticing pattern. A...
A Sweet Opening
Dear reader,Today is the opening of my first solo art show, The Quilt As Archive. The good news is before the show even opens I sold my first quilt. I am...
Notes on Practice and Pricing
Archive SevenDear Reader,I have never had an online quilt shop because I thought if I had an online quilt shop I would hate making quilts. I have a BFA in...
FREE : Pilates Warm Up Video
Dear ReaderToday I gift you a 14 minute video of me guiding you through a warm up of basic Pilates moves.It is me practicing teaching. It is you showing up...
Public Access Pilates
Dear reader,I write to you from a business ecosystem vortex where everything feels out of place but right on time. I have begun documenting my at home...