Category Archives: Inspiration

What’s Still Possible? Life Lessons from Dancing

What’s still possible? Hovering on the threshold of the dance studio, I remember to ask myself this question. I’m losing my nerve to take the challenging class in a genre which is not my strength. Pre-COVID, routinely taking difficult classes … Continue reading

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Savoring Our Way To Well-being

Originally posted on Mermaid and the Marsh:
savor: to taste, smell or experience something with pleasure Pause and savor, pause and savor.… The Universe has been sending this repeated reminder recently of the importance to our well-being of the simple…

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Light On Our Feet

Nimble; agile; capable of moving in a quick and graceful way When we are light on our feet, we can change direction quickly, and move with more ease. We’re more adaptable. And we shift with less unnecessary effort, so we … Continue reading

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Intrepid: Life Lessons from Dancing

A living room. A town green. A Zoom screen. A sand bar. A list of random nouns? Nope. To keep dancing this past year, these have been my “venues” for teaching, rehearsing and performing. As I prepared to teach class … Continue reading

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Opening Up! Let’s Practice

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” ~Deepak Chopra Let’s break out of our comfort zone! Let’s break … Continue reading

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Spaciousness: Life Lessons from Dancing

Originally posted on Sirena Tales:
? Having abundant space or roominess. Being large in range or scope. These qualities have been my focus for quite awhile for my dancing and teaching dance.  Taking up more space when we move and…

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Catch A Wave: Moving, and Living, With More Ease

Let’s allow the dance to dance us, and then just go along for the ride. That was my suggestion today when I taught my weekly Contemporary Modern Dance class (on Zoom). One reason I adore this movement, which harnesses momentum … Continue reading

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Passion: Jet Pack

Originally posted on Sirena Tales:
I started to write about the amazing fuel that passion constitutes, inspired both by  a movie we just watched and my recent dance experience. I realized that there at least two posts in all of…

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Why I (Still) Wear A Santa Hat

~To inspire, and witness, the wonder slowly lighting up the little girl’s eyes who is stopped in her tracks as she spies me rounding the corner in the grocery store…along with the ensuing smiles that magically connect us ~To lift … Continue reading

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Speaking of Kindness

Why write or talk about kindness? Yesterday, I suddenly remembered a negative comment from many years ago when I first started to write about my Santa Hat adventures through which I aim to expand my random acts of kindness. A … Continue reading

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