During my training with Accomplishment Coaching, I read the wonderful book There is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate, a compassionate process for learning to accept yourself exactly as you are, in which spiritual teacher Cheri Huber states: “The simplest example is that if self-hate is hating my body, it doesn’t matter what I […]
“With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time’s malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!”– Ella Wheeler Wilcox Seven Basic Movements of Ballet This week we have been exploring the theme of darting as part of my series on the 7 Basic Movements […]
“Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.”– John Dryden (appointed England’s first Poet Laureate in 1668!) That exhilarating sensation of gliding A soaring hawk, riding thermals high above the mountainside, […]
“Get ready to jump!” states a creepy voice at the beginning of the “Petit Allegro 2 – Bats in the Cave” track for jumping on the “Musical Gems” Halloween Ballet CD by Craig Wingrove. I love to play this silly, spooky, whimsical recording for my dance classes in October and am already looking forward to […]
