And now, a little bit of DD. In this case, I mean “Dance Digression.”<\/p>\n
Last night I put on my hot pink cossie I bought from a Las Vegas bellydancer named Aradia.<\/a> This one fits me best of all, and is the most forgiving. I need a lot of forgiveness these days, since I’m not dieting while I’m dealing with all my Natty feelings. Not diet + crazy long exercise sessions of biking and dancing help exorcise the ugly demons of Guilt and Emptying Nest. I feel like an Amazon (dot not-at-all-calm).\u00a0And then I started taking an exercise session from myfitnesshub.com<\/a> and gradually regained myself younger and not being lazy.<\/p>\n One thing I like to do here at the Cape house is dance in the large bedroom with the door closed. There is a wide space and a hardwood floor and a big mirror, so it is perfect for practice. I use my iPod and I don’t disturb anyone. And yes, I wear a cossie for this. Call me a freak, but it really helps me visualize and brings out my best performance. If you are watching yourself dance in a mirror in a gorgeous sunset-pink and sequinned outfit, you are going to do everything you can to stay tucked and lifted so that you don’t make yourself wince.<\/p>\n I enjoyed a few songs I hadn’t danced to in years, but when Entrance of the Stars<\/span> came on, (the silly, overblown title always reminds me of “Entry of the Gods into Valhalla”), I was lifted up by a blast of inspiration. I did a perfect choreography right then and there, start to finish. Beginning with just arms, and then hands, and then sudden basic Egyptian. It all worked out so well, I was very psyched to teach with this song. It has the perfect amount of slow and fast parts, and enough repeats so that you can come back to certain steps. I could just see the Baby Bellies working with it.<\/p>\n Twenty minutes of that and I was like new again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And now, a little bit of DD. In this case, I mean “Dance Digression.” Last night I put on my hot pink cossie I bought from a Las Vegas bellydancer named Aradia. This one fits me best of all, and is the most forgiving. I need a lot of forgiveness these days, since I’m not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-74","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5624,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/5624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}