So instead of trying to be great or even to get much better, I focused on trying to redefine my notions of “accomplishment” and “knowledge.” I’d been striving my whole life for the best score, the best job, the best book contract. Tap-dancing gave me permission to stop striving and just be stupid. I found it strangely liberating.
That was the “Aha!” moment — the blissful sense of learning through muscle memory, a rare thing in middle age — that made the befuddlement worthwhile.
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Naked Yoga-Not a hobby I’m interested in, but it’s what made me think of the topic.
In some ways, naked yoga is exactly what it sounds like: a 100% in-the-buff yoga experience. But it’s also so much more than that. It’s this super-empowering mix of power and vulnerability, fear and courage.