Dancing into Sixty…
Ten years ago, when I entered my fiftieth year, I found myself thinking, “they” said once you hit fifty, it’s all downhill…But didn’t “they” say that about turning forty… and even further back, thirty?
In fact, I’ve been the same person with the same level of fitness, the same healthy body, the same humor, the same confident gait I’d always maintained.
Now as I welcome my sixth decade, it’s no different, I feel the same as fifty-nine.
Granted, there is a bit less spring in my step, not because I’m heavier… no, I weigh the same as I did in high school – but my muscles don’t fire as quickly, and I’m okay with that.
These photos taken September/October 2019 are a testament of what a disciplined Pilates practice looks like and what it can do for you.
Totally agree I feel no different from teen to now. Have 4 children 7 grandchildren I teach 15+ yoga and pilates classes a week in busy health clubs with over 300 people a week on a mat in front of me and long may it last! My Facebook Yoga Eve. Instagram yogaeve1. Happy Birthday to you xx
Oh, I love your comment! Thank you so much, Eve!! Good for you as well. Yeah, we women can heal and rock the planet!
Personally I couldn’t agree more. I’m staring 64 in the face, (March 2020) hard to say the number but not hard to look in the mirror. I wear the same sized clothes I wore in Highscool. Been teaching Pilates 20+ years, was a dancer before that and refuse to sell out to age. You are as young as your spine is flexible 😉
The images I have found of you executing Pilates excellence inspire me daily!
I have a dance background and have been teaching yoga for 12 years. Now at 46 I am super keen to travel down the Pilates teaching route. I hope I can meet you one day! ?