Content Note: If a post starts with a class name (ie M&DI) then it's a journal for school. Since they're meant to be introspective, the styling and the voice will be different, but it's still me. I'm going to start dividing them up, so if you just want to read the actual blog posts and not the journals, or if you're only interested in one particular class, it'll make it easier. Oh, by the way, yesterday I had my first Movement & Dance class. It was a lot different than I expected. We're doing yoga right now, then ballet foundations in a couple weeks.
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| We dance in leather flats like these. Pointe shoes are only used by MT-level ballet students if they got that far before school. |
The first class was a lot different than what I was expecting. I don't really know what I was expecting, but lying on a towel and breathing definitely wasn't it. Even now, I'm struggling to think about what to say, other than it was really relaxing to just lie there, breathe and stretch. I thought a lot about my spine and really started to appreciate just how flexible it really is. Not only that, but while lying there, I began to truly appreciate how lucky I am to even be able to walk, let alone dance. I was in a car accident in March and was taken to the hospital on a spine board because of neck, shoulder, back and chest pain (indicators of a possible spinal injury). No one said it, but the look on the paramedic's face when I said I had neck & back pain told me everything, even before she put me in a spinal hold: if my spine's injured, something as simple as sneezing could be the difference between walking. As I'm taking a dance class now, I obviously can walk. Regardless, it was so surreal to be slowly moving my back to Katelyn's commands while thinking about how different my life could've been if I'd been less lucky that night.
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