“I’m a dancer,” I tell people, “I come from a dance background.” This is true. However, she says with a sighing smile, I have not danced regularly in nearly ten years.
In college, I worked out… when I had time. Normally it was when I was in a show or a class that required a lot of memorization time, I would go to the gym and ride the stationary bike and just review my script again and again. I remember once my friend Aaron and I were talking, I don’t know how it began, but we must have been talking about my weight because I remember him saying, “yeah, but remember during Grease, you were in really good shape”… and I remember that was a time when I needed to memorize a new monologue for an auditioning class every other day and I had Grease and auditions for summer stock, and goodness knows what else. I would probably go to the gym every night. (I was also dating an athlete, I’m sure that helped.)
Anyway, all of this is coming up for me again because I worked as an extra on my friends web series yesterday as a “yogi.” Oh my gosh, does my body hurt!!! And, I was the “instructor”, so there may have been 5 of the 17 shots and angles that I wasn’t seen in, so I was in warrior pose for about 2.5 hours straight. Oh my gosh… did I say my body hurts!?! Because it does! I used to be so flexible and proud of my body. 
Halloween 2010- 10 years later
“How many crunches should we do?”, my pom captain would holler out.
“20, 15″, the other girls would grumble.
“50″, I’d scream! YEAH! Musical Theatre, Tap, Jazz, Modern, Dance Team, even Ballet, I was at the head of the group! When we have the pleasure of taking a salsa class when we’re traveling, I am always the first one to sign up.
But, the truth is, I don’t challenge my body daily. I eat right, and I walk everywhere (NYC lends itself to that), but I don’t stretch everyday and I am not excited to take a class with these “NYC dancers” because the truth is I can’t keep up… Just because I can FIT INTO my pom uniform from 10 years ago, doesn’t mean I can do the high kicks…
I am turning over a new leaf!
Oct 23rd- Head 10 inches from Knees
Starting yesterday, with my webisode yoga, I will be stretching and doing yoga everyday. Already today, I stretched for 2 30-minute sessions, and I will be doing a PM yoga as well. I want to implement AM and PM yoga into my daily life. I also have a few yoga DVD’s (for abs, cardio) that I’ll begin using once my body is not so tight, probably by the end of this coming week.
On Sunday’s, I’m going to blog about my stretching and report on a measurement of my flexibility. This is my pledge. Today, the closest I could get in this position was Head to Knee- 10 inches. Pathetic for a former kick line center, but I will get back up on that horse and I will make that girl proud.
AND, while I’m on the subject of turning over new leaves… I have another announcement: I am going to blog more. That’s right, I have let it slide, and there is no excuse. I would love to journal, but I really don’t want my DEEPEST, DARKEST secrets put of paper for the world.
My life has been going through a huge transition recently, and, well we all know the saying, “Another F’ing Growth Opportunity”… change can be painful. I don’t like to blog about things that are sad or depressing, so I feel like, if I commit to blogging daily, I will be forced to think about something positive that I want to share every day. This makes perfect sense, right?
So that’s the plan, these are the big announcements. Daily stretching and daily blogging. Sometimes they will overlap, but probably only once a week.
Excited to hear about the new things going on? Good, because I’m excited to share… but not until tomorrow, I’m not going to waste all of my good material tonight 
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Bath time, then PM yoga 
If you have any good stretching videos or websites you can share, I would love to hear them. OR, New Yorkers, if you’re a local yogi and want to meet up for a class, I would definitely be interested, so let me know!
Goodnight all.
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