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Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Corrections? Yes, but hold the Criticisms & Contempt.

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As a young professional ballet student at North Carolina School of the Arts and School of American Ballet in the late 1970's, my cla...
Monday, August 27, 2018

When You Need to Crash, or Permission to S-t-o-p!

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At age five, I was given an adult-size Italian grip fencing foil and was drilled over and over again in four basic moves whose repetition is...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Noodling: The Creative Power of Solitary Practice

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Noodling: The Creative Power of Solitary Practice Mastery and authority in dance do not  necessarily come as a result of perfection, or ev...

Working with Elders in Pilates

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Life expectancy in the US is 76 for men and 81 for women, up eight years since the ’70s, according to recent statistics. In recent years ...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Ten Strategies for Bouncing back from Surgery, Part 2

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Eighteen months ago I had a double mastectomy for breast cancer. This has been my fourth surgery in 24 years, and of all the surgeries I...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Ten Strategies to Prepare for Surgery, Part 1

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In the last 24 years, I've had four somewhat major surgeries: two bowel excisions and resections for Crohn's disease, an ankle tenos...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Breaking Holding Patterns: What's Keeping Us from Freedom and Spontaneity?

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In the body, as in life, often what begins as an adaptive response to a stressor becomes a habit or holding pattern . This expresses itself ...