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Journey of a body over 3 decades

1/15/2013

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When I was 47,  I took my first yoga class.  My body said, "Thank you very much.  What took you so long?"When I was 57,  I bought a 10 class pass at Mecca because I was tired of hearing myself say, "someday, one day I'm going to take belly dance lessons".  I wasn't getting any younger!

Five and a half years I ago, my heart suffered a mild attack and a stent was placed inside an artery.  The very next week, I was performing the dancers prayer in a performance at the old Blue Moon.

Today as I turn 67, my body loves loves loves movement and dance and my response to "what do you do?" is,
"I do parades!".   Now I'm into strength training and conditioning.  A new approach for an old body!

I consider myself a trained belly dancer, a Five Tibetan Rite Yogi, and a senior hoop girl in the March Madness Marching Band.  Without the support of Teresa and Mel all those first 7 years of my belly dancing life, I wouldn't have found the band life that has given me a new life.
Thank you to these extraordinary women and all the extraordinary women whom I have had the pleasure to accompany in dance performances all these years.

Sue McKaig
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