Category: Exercise
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Day 52 of 52 Nia dance Well, this has been a thing. It feels good to have done what I committed to do — dance every day for seven weeks and three days, 52 days of dancing in recognition of the 52 moves of Nia. Besides the feelings of improved aerobic fitness and strength, I…
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Day 51 of 52 Nia dance Pineapple sage (salvia elegans) is a perennial (in Oregon) and part of the mint family. It doesn’t start blooming in my garden until mid September. Then it kind of loses its mind with these spikes of brilliant red. The neighborhood hummingbirds love it. I do too. It will keep…
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Day 50 of 52 Nia dance Whenever our Nia instructor Dael Parsons brings Linaia — the 2-foot tall model skeleton — to class, I know I’ll learn something. Often it’s about our joints, maybe range of motion, or about gaps I didn’t know existed, say in the lower pelvis. (Really, where those two big scoopy…
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