Howdy Folks! Happy Hump Day-- mid-week celebrations all around!!
(*cue streamers and confetti*)
It's not oft that I do a post about MEMEME, but today feels different! I want to share with you guys a slight transformation that I have discovered in myself over the past couple of months/years/decades.
My life is very movement oriented. I spent hm, approximately 10 + years of my life studying the science of human movement. Daily I deal with the way others move and how I can assist them to fine tune that so that their lives can run just a touch more smoothly. And yes, I am a regular gym-goer, having explored the likes of most aerobic, yoga, pilates, spin classes offered.
The underlying theme for me has always been move better, live better, FEEL better.
Fantastic.
{Fast forward to now}
I'm fascinated with people of all walks of life and how they move in particular. I am the person who gets to the airport an hour and half early to sit and have a tea while I watch people scurry past me.
I watch ALL the corny dance movies to see the last scene and youtube knows no other peruser so interested in extreme sports.
I chock it up to ENVY. Yes, I want to be these people, they have the moves that I never will, etc etc etc. UNTIL the other day, it HIT me like a ton of bricks.
Before I had always thought that these individuals were gifted, they had something that the likes of us won't experience in the entirety of our lives, (no matter how hard I tried). But, its not true.
I learned this through an epiphan-ic (my own dictionary) moment I had this past weekend...I was taught a new strategy for performing a pull up and low and behold-- I COULD DO IT! Floods of excitement took me over and made me wonder how I have been under utilizing my potential all these years!!
I learned that it's not a physical limitation, its a strategical one. AND I could be good at loads of things that I've never even given a shot at!
This simple thought opened so many doors for me. So I'm starting a project for myself...
I've committed myself to exploration of different types of movement (and how they are taught) from salsa to hip hop, gymnastics to tight rope walking, parkour to skiing.
Please share in the videos that have helped inspire me:
What things have you tried for fun? Suggestions for things I just HAVE to try out!? Any epiphan-ic moments you have had which have changed your life?? How so? Explain Explain!
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
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I love your underlying theme. I haven't gotten into dance much. For fun I tend to play sports, like soccer, tennis, racquetball. Salsa does sound like fun.
Very interesting post! I absolutely adore dancing because it's fun no matter what. Would highly recommend salsa....so much fun...can't wait for Friday!
You know Rupal, we always overlook our own needs be concentrating on those of others. Good for you on this moment of clarity.
Great post, dancing is one thing I really cannot do. I have absoultely no rhythm.
J'adore my dance aerobics! Have you tried Bollywood? Uber fun. :) Core Rhythms dance based on latin dancing is great fun, too, and great for the core.
I've gotten into more yoga lately. For fun, I like standing on moutain topsd and looking down at the world.
I learned how to Texas Two-Step! It was fun.
New pull-up strategy? You must share!
So true that most of the challenge is in our minds! I've tried belly dancing and pole dancing before, they were both TONS of fun :)
herballife-- I love my sports as well!!
springgirl-- I'm on it! Thanks!
Tom-- yes, it is true!
kristi-- you have rhythm! Just give it a go!
antigirl-- Bollywood-- ahh, nightmarish indian wedding dancing...ha! It is a lot of fun!
Jess- I have always wanted to do that too...added to the list, thanks!
Sagan-- cool!!
~rupal
Big fan of parkour, even more so of tricking (do a youtube search for martial arts tricking). Tricking is like a combo of gymnastics and martial arts. I can't do it at the moment, but one of my goals is to learn a couple moves :)
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