2011 TOP

Practice Line Up!!

Awesome practice day yesterday!

Thank you Stina Albihn, Martin Brinde, Manuel Bojén, Jasmine Lyman and Jimmy - as always hiding behind the camera.

Get inspired, come join in sometime and inspire us right back!

Merry X-mas!!

X-mas candy!

Fudge

150 grams buckwheat

150 grams coconut

150 grams dried apricots

1/2 squeezed lemon

1 tablespoon agave syrup

1 teaspoon vanilla

seasalt

Rolled raw goodies

2,5 decilitre cashews

10 dates

1 lemon

1 teaspoon vanilla

seasalt

We also made my very first (and last) gingerbreadhouse!

It has two walls and half a ceiling. The rest of it accidently crasched down on the floor and turned into a million pieces...

Making a gingerbreadhouse was a lot harder and not half as fun as I thought it was. My hat is off to all of you that don't use superglue and still manage to fit it together and making it pretty.

Dream come true =)

I'm currently working at Göteborgs Operan as an aerial acrobat in the famously famous Tosca by Puccini! Ofcourse it's

a.m.a.z.i.n.g.

Here are some backstage and on stage pics for you.

In this picture you can actually see the photagrafer. His name is Per Hanstorp and you'll find more of his skillful photos at http://www.hanstorp.se/
Wanna know how my costume looks?
Come and see me fly!

Links.

Other places where you can read about me:
http://hagabadet.blogspot.com/2011/11/vikarie.html
and
http://maliniform.com/2011/12/01/manadens-profil-milla-floryd/

Big BIG thanx to Maria and Malin for the attention.
Peace out!

Flying handstand!

Working on my handstand in the aerial net. It's hard not to get tangled up, especially with the feet. The plan is to drop from handstand to hanging in one knee and that's impossible when the feet are stuck... But sometimes I get it and you know: Practice, practice, practice. At this point I've been practicing so enthusiastic that I almost start crying when I stretch my arms over head because my shoulders hurts so bad. But then again: What doesn't kill you...
This makes the differences between yoga and acrobatics very obvious.
In acrobatics you push it until you have it.
In yoga you take your time, breathe, and grow into it.
I love playing on the edges on this game board. So similar, just the same and nothing like each other!

Marinas Blog!

I'm honored to have been interviewed by Marina Borneblad in her blog about training and inspiration to and for the same. If you read swedish and are qurious about finding out something new about me... read it =)

http://traning.marinaborneblad.se/?p=1253&fb_source=message

Peace out!

With clothes from Freddy Sweden!

In the latest Fitness Magazine you can read about my beatuful AcroME collegue Elaine Rydberg!

I'm proud as a mom and happy that she let me tag along for the ride =)

The day started early with hair an make-up at Ikon on Vallgatan (Goteborg) and we got all our trendy, comfy and stylish clothes from Freddy Sweden. Thank you Malin!

Freddy Sweden also dressed me and my duoacro partner Jakkin for a performance the same week as the Fitness mag photshoot took place. Thank you again Malin. Your are even more awesome than your clothes!!

Weekend playshops.

11.11.11

I didn't think about the date when I planned the handstand playshop. It was just a friday in november. Thanks to the 10 (if I count myself we were 11) awesome yoginis and yogis that showed up it was an awesome evening!

This is not a november handstand, it's me playing at the Barcelona beach last summer.

12.11.11

The saturday after 11.11.11 with a less dramatic date was The Day for this years last AcroME workshop. As always there was sweat, laugther, acrodrilling and chilling going on from morning to afternoon.

This is not AcroME having coffee, it's me and bright shining Pernilla Josefsson taking a break.

And now it's Tosca-time. The opera, not the cookie.

Working with Wiss

WWW is not only short for world wide webb, it could also be short for last months performances.
It's been duoacro, duoacro and duoacro with Jakkin Wiss.
Fortune or misfortune or whatever you would like to call it gave us 36 hours to put a act together for a dinnerparty 13 october and since then we have made two more shows.
Last one was yesterday in Stockholm at Gallerian.
From the very beginning we were booked to do our act, it's about 4 minutes long, but the day before the show I got a call and the voice on the other end tells me: we have done some changes.
So the day before the show we get the information that we are not going to perform our act once, but over and over again for 30 minutes!! In slow motion!
I might not be the biggest girl, but I'm alive and I move and I weigh 57kg. It don't really matter hove buffed you are. Carrying me around for 30 minutes and you are going to break a sweat! Jakkin looked like he's been taking a shower with his clothes on when we were done.

Besides our duoacro I were supposed to "do something in the net while the other artists perform". (Thats also the voice from my phonecall talking.) But when we got there, things changed again and it was desided that I should perfom an aerial net-act instead.
Ofcourse I was'nt prepered for that so thank you WWW (as in world wide webb) for spotify so that I could get my music since I did'nt have it with me!

Anyhow.
Everything went great!
I met a lot of old and new friends and it was nice to be working with Wiss =)

I'm a bad juggler.

Apperently I'm a lousy juggler.

Ofcourse I know how to juggle three balls, I learned that because I wanted to impress my x boyfriend. Since he's a professional juggler, I belive juggling three balls did'nt really impress him... and now it's almost two years since we seperated.

Anyhow, besides that mysterious sidetrack, I did'nt mean traditional circus juggling. I was refering to juggling tasks in life. Sometimes I'm a master of getting things done and sometimes I'm quite the opposite to that last statement.

It seems to me that it was monday and the beginning of week 44 yesterday!

Today when I rolled out of bed to start my morning practice it's sunday!

Where the heck did my week go?

I had acrobatric practice monday, check. Dentist tuesday, check. AcroME meeting wednesday, check. Theatre with family thursday, check. Stiltwalking at Casino Cosmopol friday, check. Teaching at The Convention and performing at a wedding saturday, check.

Ok. I got everything that was on top of my ordinary teaching and praticing schedual done, check.

But this is where I, in juggling terms, dropped my balls.

My home, my sancurary, looks like a warzone. It's a total mess!

But not for long!

Before tomorrow, before monday, before next week starts of in a fast lane, I will clean up!

Check.

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na BATMAN!!

Just got back from the Ericsson Globe arena and Batman! A totally awesome show by Live Nation. Circus at it's very best!

How I looooove the circus. I can not stretch that enough!

It brings generations together. Old, young and everybody in between join in the ooooh's and aaaah's. And when Bruce Wayne claimed:

I'm Batman!

everybody clapped theire hands, stomped their feet and vissled!

Gotham City, home of Batman!

Growing old.

I am growing old, I am not getting old.
I am growing in to my bodys possibilities, I am growing old enough to explore my minds endless resourses.
I have never been this strong, this fast, this flexible, this mindful, this humble.

Earlier today I watched an amazingly inspiring program at SVTplay about Anna Halprin. She's a boundbreaking dancer who's nearly ninety years old - and still performing!!
Thats the kind of role model that speaks to me! Thats how I am going to grow old.

Old age are not intimidating, it's autumn.
Look around you. There is old age and decay everywhere and it's beautiful!
Life experience is beautiful.

4 real.

Defy gravity!!

Pilates Complete and me are proude to present Gothenburgs absolut first classes in yogawings! The spaces are very limited. To be sure not to miss your spot please contact http://www.pilatescomplete.se/

Defy gravity and give your yoga the possibility to explore the next level!

Yogawings makes it easier to go deeper into the positions and hold them for a longer period of time. Using wings will release tension from your spine and it will help you to keep the alignment correct and strengthen your muscles. With yogawings you will practice coordination, balance, strength, stamina, stability and flexibility at the same time and that stimulates your mind!

The wings that I use is a product of stolt clothing.

Find out more about stolt and where you can by your wings here:

www.stotclothing.se

My body is amazing!

This past week it's been working 12 yogaclasses, around 7 hours of selfpractice, 15 hours of duoacrobatic show rehearsals, 1 photoshoot and 2 shows.
I feel invisible! I feel great!
But I did'nt the day before yesterday. Five days in to my workweek, 11 yogaclasses, 1 photoshoot, around 5 hours of selfpractice, 15 hours of duoacrobatic show rehearsals and 1 show later I felt worn out. Ready to go to sleep for a month and thinking about running away from it all. Let's just say that the beginning of the week was a little bit hectic.
Well I've choosed to be a selfemployed acrobat so I can't just roll over and play dead or take a time out when ever things get ruff. If I want to continue to live my dream I have to roll up my sleaves, remember whats importent to me and get on with it. So I did.
My body was begging me to cave in. Every inch, every muscle was eaching so I did what I had to do. I turned to my old healing-recipe. Something that I know works after years of trial and error. I eat a lot of carbohydrates, watched a few episodes of "desperate housewifes" and tried to get some extra sleep. It worked, as always.

The amount of strength my body has, what it is capable of - it's just mindblowing.
It's designed to move. So is yours!

November the 5th

Are you?

Growing wings!

Which superpower do you wish for?

Most people answer that question with:

"I wish I could fly!"

What if I told you that you can?

As an aerial acrobat and a yogateacher I have always wished to combine the two elements of grounding earth and light air and 30 october starts a unique yogaswingcourse. An opportunity for you to grow wings!

You don't have to be a circusfreak or a proffesional acrobat to enjoy the benefits of hanging upsidedown in the air. It's for everybody! It's even says so in the newspaper!
Don't miss out on this.

Get all the info you need at

http://www.pilatescomplete.se/

“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”

Leornardo da Vinci

Awesome weekend!

Started off fridaynight with a fun bunch of handstand-lovers!
Getting ready for kick-ups!

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Rigging yogawings for saturday...

Henrik Söderling talking about his beatuful panting.

Feets in the air!

Thanks everybody for your quriosity. You made the day memoralble.

It's PlayTime!

Hanging with darling Elaine Rydberg and Jimmy Hellgren (who's behind the camera).

Oktober the 1st

Jimmy is going to display some of his urban yogapictures at

Pilates Complete, Kastellgatan 1 in Gothenburg.

I think that he was hoping to get some more pictures to his portfolio and I'm not sure that he got that mission completed...
AcroME is'nt the easiest models. We just want to PLAY!

And stand on our hands =)

Namaste fellow breathers!

If you want to see more of Jimmy Hellgerns work don't stay home this saturday!

The time is

13.30-15.30

There will not be "just pictures".

You will also have the opportunity to try YogaWings!

When you get tiered of flying you can listen to Mack Johansson LIVE, how cool is that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAo2-OHWCJ4

As if that was'nt enough you will also have the chance to enjoy Henrik Söderlings

"Practice Paintings".

Don't miss out on this. Come, bring your family, friends and inner child to enjoy all this different ways of playing with The Yoga.

Inspiration and Freedom!

We are all searching for freedom. Looking and listening for it eveywhere. Longing. Yearning. It's in our human nature.
But we don't always know what we want freedom from. Sometimes it's obvious and sometimes it's more like a scratchy feeling. An itch that doesn't go away.
And even when we do know what we want freedom from, we don't always know what we what freedom to... When we finaly have our so long yearned for freedom - what are we going to do with it?
For me, freedom is yoga. Freedom is inspiration. And once you got inspired it can never be taken from you. It's there. In your heart. Forever free.

October the first you are invited to an unique yoga-inspiration afternoon!
There will be live music with Mack Johansson who has played on the streets in Berlin, had a song played in the tv-series Tru Blood, been living at an ashram i India and became famous in Holland with his band Hyacinth House.
Mack doesn't put a label on his music. He describes it as a constant flow of words and pictures that imerges to sound and this union becomes the music. Come and experience it for yourself!
There will be copys of Mack's soloalbum for sale. The price is 150sek.
Photagrafer Jimmy Hellgren will display some of his urban yoga pictures. Feel free to take a sneakpeak at
http://www.yogaimpact.info/
All pictures at that webbsite and most of the pictures in the gallery is taken by him.
You will be able to place an order on a Henrik Söderling "Practice Painting". He calls them that because they come from a place of quriosity for the freedom yoga brings and they are inspiried by the practice. On your own "Practice Painting" there can be, for example, your favourite asana, a pranyam practice that you want to visualize or maybe your morning mantra. All painted in the color of the chakra that you need to enhance.
If you ask somebody what their dream-superpower is most people want to be able to fly. On this day I will show you yogawings. An awesome flying yogapractice that defies gravity.
When?
October the 1st, 13.30-15.30
Where?
Pilates Complete, Kastellgatan 1, Gothenburg
Price?
The yoga-inspiration afternoon is for free!!

Come, enjoy the day and get inspired.
Inspiration is a kind of freedom that never can be taken away from you!

From our hearts to yours. With deep affection, Saprema.
Mack, Jimmy, Henke & Milla

Note from The Universe

It's like once you're prepared, Milla, truly prepared to carry on for as long as it takes, you'll quickly find, as all movers and shakers have before you, that it doesn't take long at all.
Surrender to the path, and go.

- The Universe

No more nice girl!

There must be a reason to why I keep get overlooked.
Why friends and collegues comes to me for advise and ideas and when inspiration, imagination and hard work becomes reality I'm not included in the final state.
The reason why these things happens to me is because I let it happen!
Well enough of that.
I can still remember when my mom told me that I am too adaptable and that I have to get tougher. Not tougher in an un-nice way, but in a big hearted, loving way. And that would make people take me more seriously.
I'm starting to belive her.
So here is to "new" me. Looking the same, in most ways acting the same. But I'm not going to just take a breath and think; it's ok, when I really think; this is not ok. I'm going to love myself and respect my boundaries the same way I love and respect my fellow breathers.
There may be some casualties, but this time I'm not going to be one of them.

I have a feeling that I'm not the only one that had these experiences. So why don't join me in my new Autumn Agenda:
Value my knowledge.
Value my ideas and inspiration.
Go where my heart tells me to go.
Belive in myself, follow my true inner longing and do what feels just right.

Lets rock this life!!

Change, grow, live!

Just an ordinary day...

24ish hours of my life.

28/8

01.00 Port Du Soleil!!

03.30 Zzzzzzzz

07.00 Home practice, breakfast, reading emails.

10.15 Yoga class

12.30 Lunch, answering emails, facebooking.

14.30 Rigging

16.00 Yoga class
18.00 Make up

19.00 Music video recording
22.00 Food! Shower! Sofa!

Zzzzzz....

Tough love and the movie!!

Me and Elaine are back with AcroME in the air!

Come and play & fly with us and give yourself the challenge and fun you need to keep warm this autumn and winter.
Sunday 4 september 18.30-20.00 at Apartment, Linnegatan 9, Gothenburg.
Welcome to an open and free of charge Acrobatic evening at Apartment in Gothenburg.

Get a taste of our new workshop “Tough love and the movie”.

Come as you are, no previous Acro skills are required. We teach you how to go upside down in a nice & easy way. Chill with other acrobats and catch a glimt of our new movie.
The entire Workshop will be held at Yoga Tree later on this autumn, 17 sept & 12 Nov.

Tough love...
unconditional, ruff love to the body. To the movement. To the joy of beeing here, in this breath.
...and the movie.
you are the director and the head caracter. You are your own star! You are the creator of your thougts and your life. Take control, take desitions and dare to fail.

This is a workshop where adversity is turned into success. Fear fades and weakness is turned into strength.

AcroME, Milla Floryd and Elaine Rydberg is well known names in the areas of yoga, acrobatics and dance.
At their workshop "Tough love and the movie" you get to challenge yourself with partner yoga and acrobatics. The workshop builds on teamwork and the safe enviroment that is created will help you to effortless move mountains you thougt you would never move.

Witch is the soundtrack to your life?
Turn up the volume. You might just live this ones.

Registrate at mail@acrome.info

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3 nights

3 different shows!

Wednesday at Pilates Complete

Thursday at the worlds greatest summer-hang-out:
Port du Soleil

Friday on fire with Hellzapoppin Sideshow!

There are still dragons...