This post is inspired by a wonderful live music dance performance experience this weekend. I was lucky enough to get the chance to perform with Rakiya’s Arabic orchestra at Noemie Danse‘s Oriental Roots festival in Belgium – along with a few amazing fellow dancers. It was an enriching and exhilarating experience. Below are a few… Read More Dancing ‘Live’
The adventures of the past few days made me think of how much freedom we gain once we let go of expected outcomes. Surprises can jolt us into consciousness, if we let them. For me it was – at least today – a new-to-me student in Haidong Gumdo and Taekwondo class today. Incredibly talented –… Read More Go with the Flow
Today‘s strength practise is a very simple one – To Lift a Thing. The thing in question being our newest Kettlebell, a 24KG one. The weight is still a bit too heavy for me at the moment to do swings with comfortably, plus yesterday was a long day of dance, so for today a warmup,… Read More Simplicity – The Deadlift
Seems apt 🙂 Filled with great advice! How to Dance Forever – Daniel Nagrin Bonus geekery: The name I chose for dance, Khalida, means ‘eternal – forever – everlasting’.
This is part 3 of a series on Stacey Nemours fantastic online course package for dancers. Check out the full series here: Stacey Nemour Dance! Pack – Part 1 Stacey Nemour Dance! Pack – Part 2 Stacey Nemour Dance! Pack – Part 3 Stacey Nemour Dance! Pack – Part 4 Stacey Nemour Dance! Pack – Part… Read More Stacey Nemour’s Dance! Flexibility Makeover Power Pack – Part 3
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. – Aristotle I am mostly writing this here as a reminder to myself. How did we learn how to walk? By taking a step, struggling, adapting, and then trying again. And again and again. Bit by bit. Learning… Read More Learning by Doing
I love walking on fresh snow. Making a new path for myself. No footsteps before me. To boldly go where no one has gone before. (at least recently) I came across the Greek term ‘Euthymia’ in ‘the Daily Stoic’ today. I enjoyed reading Seneca’s description of it, which he used in essay on tranquility; “believing in yourself… Read More Your own Path – Euthymia
This is so important. Investing time, energy, love, and effort into your own development is essential to keep growing. Even in the smallest ways – it makes a tremendous difference. To be able to truly invest in yourself, you must first find out what this means to YOU. What choices can you make every day… Read More Invest in Yourself
Do you know the difference between taekwondo, boxing, thaiboxing, self-defense, karate, jujitsu, judo and MMA? I don‘t. At least: not yet… But I‘m about to find out this spring! And so can you 🙂 Dance4Children (the charity support team I have had the honour to join since this January) is hosting a ‘MartialArts4Children’ workshop day… Read More All the Martial Artses
This, of course, goes for everything in life. One of the exercises shown in the Nerdfitness Article I linked to in last week’s Post features a rubber band. It is used to strengthen the extensors – so an anti-grip exercise, of sorts. This is great to do in the ‘rest’ time between your training sets of… Read More Use what you have