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
To keep with the theme of hands and feet, check out What the Foot by the brilliant Gary Ward. His work has inspired great shifts(ha) in the realm of body mechanics. Gary’s way of looking at the body as a self-correcting system by employing gentle movement in combination with alignment awareness is brilliant as well as… Read More What the Foot
This is part 2 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 2
A small book filled to the brim with great advice. Essentialism by Greg McKeown Also check out this related Podcast Interview by Tim Ferris. Enjoy!
One of the greatest joys of traveling (even in, or perhaps even especially in the UK, as I’m not a native English speaker) are the unexpected expansions in vocabulary. Last year’s walking vacation in the UK lake district (where the rescued Alpacas play) taught us many things. Such as: Cairns, meres, waters, becks and tarns will be… Read More Tarns, Cairns and a Scramble
A while ago, I wrote a blog post on working with Silk Fan Veils (one of my favorite belly dance fantasy/fusion props!) for ZeOT magazine. One of the many movement arts where flexible fingers, adequate wrist mobility and grip strength come in hand(ha!)y. I’ve just released a free(!) 50-minute Fan Veil FUN-damentals tutorial, so it feels like… Read More Fan (Veil) Wrangling
