This past weekend I went on a course for muscular and motor pattern imbalance assessment and corrective exercise prescription. We started off the course with the video posted below. Not only is it amazing and inspirational, a testament to the human spirit, but it also demonstrated that movement does not have to be restricted by injury. The most striking part for my self as a dance I know what is involved in ballet training, seldom do most people reach that level of proficiency, let alone with their disability. 

I recieve these wonderful daily emails nad today I wanted to share it with you:

 A few words on perspective:

 In all of time and space, there is no challenge, pothole, mountain, chasm, hurdle, or foe larger than you. Not even close. Although if all you use to size them up are your physical senses... good luck!

Tallyho,
    The Universe

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Keeping up with a lifestyle change can be very challenging, often we feel like the payoff is not worth the effort, especially when the results can be slow coming. I have my own personal experience to share; after a long period of being ill, not working out, eating poorly in my late adolescence I decided to get my life in check, I was not happy with my body and I felt crummy. At the time I had not idea how much work it took to get the results I wanted. I had a dance background so for most of my life up until then, it was not something I though mush about. When I first started going to the gym I thought going twice a week was a lot of time, especially because it felt wasted. I was intimidated by other more fit women in the gym. I found a cartoon in a magazine that captured what I felt, it was accompanied by this editorial story; this woman had gone through the same thing I was going through. I was INSPIRED! I loved the cartoon, so I kept it. I taped it to my bathroom mirror, to remind me every day why I was doing what I was doing and to not give up. As I became stronger I enjoyed going to the gym more, I went more often, saw more results. It took me a full five years to really see all the changes I wanted, it had to build over time. That cartoon, stayed on my mirror all of that time. When I moved I kept it and took it with me. Now I can generate my own motivation, but I sometimes remember what it felt like to not have any, and that cartoon's role in keeping me one track. Do not underestimate the power of the small things.

Do not give up, keep at it, it will come.