things what are awesome about dance

[sabine]

• Endorphins! It is super fun (endorphins!) and exercise (endorphins!).
  
• Progress! I wasn't immediately good at it, so I can see progress, room to grow, and the joy of eventual success.
  
• Friends! Community! A place I feel safe, love spending time, and have felt included.
  
• Emi! At the hafla on Saturday, we declared there to be open dancing during the drum jam at intermission. Emi got up on stage and danced - hip slides, figure 8s, and turning around and around until she was super dizzy. She loves musics and loves to dance.
  
• Positive role models for Emi! There are very few perfect bodies and fewer perfect dancers, but everyone gets cheered the same. It's a supportive community that will hopefully end up with her not having some of the same body issues that I have.
  
• Sequins! Sparkly things! My magpie heart loves this like whoa.
  
• Music! Flute taqsim speaks to my soul. Drums speak to all the rest of me.
  
• Feeling pretty. It's no big secret that I've believed for a very long time that I'm not pretty. Dance makes me feel pretty.
  
• Brain chemistry! Dance makes my depression go away. It doesn't always last a long time, but it consistently works. This alone would make it a worthwhile use of my time.