Yep.
And Sam's does, too.
It's so confusing to know what to take. There is a book (There is always a book with me, ladies! :blush: ) Healthy Aging, I think it is, by Dr. Andrew Weil. An excellent resource, and beautifully written.
Nomad?
I plan to continue the karate and see where it takes me. I want to do yoga too though, and would like to go back to ballet classes. Of the three, ballet was the most challenging and the most beautiful and strengthening, I think.
But now that I am fifty-five, it is hard on my hips to turn out properly for ballet class.
I would absolutely recommend it to anyone. It helped me to learn my own body in a new and most strengthening way. It had so much to do with viewing my body as my own, strong possession. For many women, and certainly for me, what I looked like was somehow not my own. It was always about how good (or bad!) I looked, or whether I was dressed well enough, or well groomed enough. Ballet and karate both force us to be strong, and to sweat, and to be someone other than a feminine little thing.
Karate is an excellent place to consider BEING the one of whom an attacker might need to be afraid, instead of always feeling so defenselessly afraid. (Not that I know enough yet to defend myself. But watching that concept evolve has been fascinating.)
Karate is fun, but it is not as beautiful, or as strengthening, as ballet.
Both are forms of moving meditation, keying both body and mind to a different plane.
What I understand is that karate will be the same way, once I have progressed further.
But if I could still take the positions correctly?
I would be back in ballet class in a minute.
Barbara