When I do my intakes with clients, as hard as it may be for them to recall how old they were when they took their first course of antibiotics, or whether they had their tonsils out before or after they developed some horrendous auto-immune inflammatory disease, the toughest question to answer is always “What are your favourite hobbies?”
Over the summer, I did a Nourish Your Soul week where we took a little detour from food and looked at all the other things that nourish us (a clever way to promote my Nourish Your Soul retreat that takes place January 10th-17th with just one spot still open, yes?).
Though I am still writing my blog, I am on holidays this week and next. I have taken two weeks off of teaching and seeing clients to do what fills me up all whole like and one of those things is taking a bunch of art classes and workshops. Something else I have taken up again, dancing! Yes, that is me up there, front and centre, bursting with the desire to shake out my jazz hands (and straighten my bow-tie).
My dance career peaked at around the age of 10, when I was in 11 performances in a single season, dancing every day of the week- jazz, tap, ballet, and a little dabble in musical theatre. Recently, I have started working out with an amazingly awesome new personal trainer, Andrea Palen, in an effort to feel my absolute best for the January retreat. We dance our warm up. We stretch, we reach, we bend, we balance and we shake, shake, shake our sillies out. It is the best warm up ever. Screw that running on the spot mumbo jumbo.
I have seriously taken to this dancing thing. I am not sure I am quite ready to tie my tap shoes on, but getting closer. Every morning I have been starting my day off with a dance party for one and it is an amazing way to get lymph flowing, blood circulating, lungs expelling, fresh oxygen pouring in and a giggle in to my day. So in honour of hitting the halfway of my holiday, we are getting out of the kitchen and onto the dance floor. Turn up the volume and wiggle your waggles away!
And what do you think that little Cowgirl number was to? What else?
Escape Club – Wild Wild West
Haha– I wore those silly costumes for years!! I did dance (tap and ballet) from the age of 3-12! It was a long run embarrassing run with those costumes! HAHA!
Well, at least people tell me I am a good dancer now, so I guess the torture paid off. I have cordination! 
Oh man, those bring back the days of my ballet, tap, and jazz years
I love your old dance photos!!! I’ll have to show you mine some day. I like your pose with the little “guns”.
Dancing is amazing!!! You should come take a class with me sometime… so much more fun than it was when I was 8. My dance teacher (Miss Carol) would get migraines and on those days she was particularly lovely. I always think of her as my own personal Miss Hannigan!
Good golly! I have very similar pics. I used to lie and say I was already in a dance class when it came time to participate in plays at school! Then I went and took a bunch, just wanted to be on stage! Thanks for the memories.
These days I have treadmill dance parties all by myself that I’m sure make everyone at my gym think I’m nuts! I even do leaps!! (Holding on of course.) I love it and wouldn’t have it any other way!
HAHAHAHAHA!!! LOVE the guns!! Omg, I want a copy of that blown up to 8 X 10 so I can put it on my wall… it’ll make me giggle for eternity. And Lazarus, I too can empathize with the treadmill dancing — I don’t really use gyms anymore, but when a good song comes onto the iPod, it’s impossible not to start throwing some kicks and hops into your stride.
Meg, this is inspiration for sure — I was just thinking how I couldn’t remember the last time I did any kind of activity for pure personal development, learning and enjoyment (other than maybe reading). What art class are you taking?
yay Andrea Palen
so happy you are enjoying your sessions with my BFF – she’s the best!! crazydancing workouts = the best.
I ask people too – what do you enjoy doing? It kills me that they can’t answer that question right away. I’m like come on – really? You don’t know what you like to do. Well, it’s time to figure that out. You only live once.
Hi!
I am curious about your soup. What do you like to serve with the soup for a complete meal? Or do you eat that as the basis of the meal? I have been interested in veganism (reading The Kind Diet right now) and the cornerstore of that is grains, fruits and veggies,,,and then only protein (beans or soy sources)…thoughts?
I love her eyes and her wild wild hair.
OMG… Meghan, you must join my “Jazz-Hand Hello Movement” group on Facebook!!!
My mission is to revolutionize the way we say hello. Goodbye to the cootie-spreading handshake and high-five… and hello to the spontaneity of jazz hands. (It’s contagious, in a good way.)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2403914747&ref=ts
That totally depends on the type of soup, the meal, the day and the person. Been hearing all kinds of things about this book but as I have said before, there is no single right answer that applies to everyone all the time.
Ooops nevermind… you already did join, YAY!
very funny. we’ll take it all the way to St. Lucia