Gettin’ Your Dance On
Today I wanted to talk about dancing, one of my favorite ways to add movement into my life. If you look at physical self care, it’s not just about massages and getting pampered (although that’s totally part of it) but taking care of your body it a lot of different aspects, including exercise.
However, I like to think of it as intentional movement.
I love to jog, early in the mornings, while listening to zen-ny music. It makes me happy, but what I also like to do to get my body moving in a delicious way, is dancing. Today you have a Self Care Challenge. Make some time today to dance. There’s about a gazillion ways you can do it. Put on some Beyoncé and butcher her moves, she won’t ever know, promise. Find a Zumba Class, I’ve never done it but I hear it’s fun. Vacuum or wash dishes and move while you do, it makes it go a whole lot faster and it can make you zen out and forget the fact that you’re… ya know… cleaning.
A website that I absolutely love, and totally reflects how I feel about dancing is Spirit Moves Dance.
I am a huge fan of Meg and I love who she is and what she does. She’s just one of those people that shines out of the internet and you just adore them right off. She has a blog and I love reading her words, she’s a pretty wise lady, and she’s funny, and I love teh funny peoples!
In addition to being a self-described dancing ninja, she’s a very accomplished dancer and teacher. If that’s not enough reason to go and adore her, she just started doing free Dancing Telecircles, which are online dance parties that you can attend by signing up. (Doooo eeet!!!) There’s also her Facebook Page if you want to stay up-to-date on things. You should also get thee to her youtube channel for some super inspiring videos of dance!
Find a way to daaaaance until your heart’s content. In the living room, in the dark, with your friends, online, or with perfect strangers! And that sounds kinda dirty but I promise it’s not!
Do you like to dance? What’s your favorite way to move your body? How do you feel when you dance?
I love to dance, I just need to build my confidence to do it when I'm sober and not drunk. I think hooping has started to build me up for that.
I think I mostly like walking, running, and strength training, since that’s what I’m most good at. I’m not really good at dancing. I’ve tried dance exercise videos, but I’m very bad at it. Though I try. I liked Kyra Pro’s YouTube channel since she seems to choose geeky music to workout dances to, like Disney music and broadway music, not all this mainstream pop music I haven’t heard of. I mostly look up technical advice on the type of workouts I do on the blog Nerd Fitness though, and I have some books on the science/biology of fitness in specific books, as well as philosophical books combined with thinking about life while walking or running, and sometimes by cycling or swimming (though I’m not good at those things), which is nice. I tried yoga with the YouTube channel Yoga with Adrienne videos, because some forms of yoga do great for strength training, but others are more relaxed and more focused on flexibility and grace, which I’m not really good at. I think that’s part of why I’m really bad at dancing, but I want to be cool enough to dance. But I can’t. Why? Maybe practice will make perfect.