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jenettWelcome to this week's salon post!
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Logistics note: I didn't realise until last Saturday that I'd forgotten to unlock last week's Salon post. If you notice I haven't unlocked it, feel free to let me know. (Most content in my journal is locked: I am very amiable about adding most people, but it means I have to remember to unlock the Salon posts in particular.)
Question for the week: What interesting things have you done recently? (Whether that's something new to you, something other people might find interesting to hear about you do all the time, or the current thing you're geeking out over.)
I went to a presentation a week ago for the Cambridge (this is the Massachusetts Cambridge) Open Archives, two weeks when a lot of the museums and archive collections do special sessions. The one I was at was at Mount Auburn Cemetery, which was the first 'rural' cemetery in the United States.
It's a really beautiful place (it was jointly designed with horticulture in mind) and the way they've preserved information is also fascinating. Families who owned plots could design the landscaping in that plot (within guidelines), and they kept all those records. I was reminded I really ought to go walk there more often.
What I've been up to:
See above! Otherwise, a fair bit of playing catchup with life.
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Logistics note: I didn't realise until last Saturday that I'd forgotten to unlock last week's Salon post. If you notice I haven't unlocked it, feel free to let me know. (Most content in my journal is locked: I am very amiable about adding most people, but it means I have to remember to unlock the Salon posts in particular.)
Question for the week: What interesting things have you done recently? (Whether that's something new to you, something other people might find interesting to hear about you do all the time, or the current thing you're geeking out over.)
I went to a presentation a week ago for the Cambridge (this is the Massachusetts Cambridge) Open Archives, two weeks when a lot of the museums and archive collections do special sessions. The one I was at was at Mount Auburn Cemetery, which was the first 'rural' cemetery in the United States.
It's a really beautiful place (it was jointly designed with horticulture in mind) and the way they've preserved information is also fascinating. Families who owned plots could design the landscaping in that plot (within guidelines), and they kept all those records. I was reminded I really ought to go walk there more often.
What I've been up to:
See above! Otherwise, a fair bit of playing catchup with life.
House rules:
This is a public post, feel free to encourage other people to drop by, just note the 'if posting anonymously, include a name people can call you in responses' rule.
* Consider this a conversation in my living room, only with a lot more seating. I reserve the right to redirect, screen, and otherwise moderate stuff, but would vastly prefer not to have to.
* If you don't have a DW account or want to post anonymously, please include a name we can call you in this particular post. (You can say AnonymousOne or your favourite colour or whatever. Just something to help keep conversations clear.)
* If you've got a question or concern, feel free to PM me.
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Date: 2018-06-22 04:18 pm (UTC)I have had a great deal of luck strengthening some very specific atrophied muscles with belly dance, so PM or email me if you want info, and it's also good for abdominal and pelvic floor strengthening, but if you don't watch it, you'll fuck your knees (or other parts of you) hard depending on what you do.
Basically, if bodies are complicated, belly dance is best with a doctor and with a teacher who knows complicated bodies. My teacher knows complicated bodies because she has one. Other teachers know complicated bodies because they are massage therapists or are concurrently yoga teachers, or have other qualifications.
It's a beautiful art form and if you google it, most of the big names are super slender (because of course they are), but it really can be done at any size. I can point you at amazingly graceful 300+ pound women who are belly dancers.
The troupe that I would LOVE to try to join (someday), but which is too far away for me to ever join is here:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stygian+sisters+metal+belly+dance
https://stygiansisters.wixsite.com/home
I also found this great article:
How Practicing Contemporary Dance Helps Belly Dancers
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Date: 2018-06-22 04:37 pm (UTC)(This is one of the problems of living alone people don't talk about much - there's a lot of stuff I'd be more willing to push if I lived with someone and had a back up of 'I'll probably be fine, but I'm going out for a walk and if I misjudge, can you come pick me up?'. But I don't, so.)
I swim for my exercise because it's the one thing I've found I'll keep up with (I enjoy it as an activity, especially now waterproof MP3 players exist and I can listen to podcasts while I do my laps), I can modify my exertion stroke by stroke if I want, and because 'how much energy do I need to save to shower, change, and go to work' is a (more or less) constant I can plan for.
Though even then it sometimes gets tricky. (I swam before work this morning, and walked across campus at 9 to show someone some things, and even though it's gorgeous out there and not hot, my body was very much at 'You Did A Thing. Maybe Too Much Thing' for a couple of hours after.)
Anyway, it makes group class exercise things a thing that I could likely manage if I didn't have to leave the house to go to work, (and have to save energy/cope for that) but I do, so.