In Reply to: Re: More on When the Body Says No posted by Jewlz on December 05, 2004 at 23:51:15:
The image of me doing pirouettes cracks me up! What you refer to as my passion for dancing consists largely of the desire to experience again those rare moments of pure liberation I've felt when I was totally unconcerned about anything other than being in the moment. Those moments for me are like a kind of moving meditation, if that makes any sense, or perhaps more accurately, like trance-dancing. The physiological and psychological improvements to my well-being those moments gave me were very real. My mood the next day was always far better when I had gotten up to dance than when I didn't. That's why, when my body lets me, I think I'll make a better effort to take lessons to build my confidence, so that I won't hold myself back anymore.