Category: NIA dance practice

  • Pain that hits out of the blue is the damn weirdest thing. I don’t know quite what I did that led to such deep pain in my left glute that I couldn’t bend at all from the waist without triggering it. Before that, I had been feeling pretty self-satisfied, what with daily walks and three…

  • This morning I sought inspiration through an online search on the words “dancer’s wisdom.” I found a link to a BBC piece on 77-year-old ballet dancer Suzelle Poole, still dancing, still teaching and looking back on a 70-year career. Here’s the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP214lJtKlM After watching, I saw that the video was created…

  • Can’t remember the last time I danced the routine “Ride.” I have such good memories of dancing this Nia routine during the first Covid summer, when we were all isolating and anxious. Our wonderful dance teacher Dael Parsons found a park with a mostly unused basket ball area, so we danced there twice a week,…