This should have been posted a week ago, but I was having internet issues and then forgot about it.
Class is going well although it still is physically painful. Everyone complains on the way home about knees, feet,and backs. I wish I could pick up the choreography faster, but I just write it all down and then practice on my own like a madwoman. It surpises my teachers every time when I float through the stuff that I stumbled through the day before. Tamoi Sensei noted my "attitude of calm" with clear approval. So I'm making progress. Tamoi Sensei used a great teaching device yesterday. He was explaining that you can't twist your body as you turn. Every part has to turn at once. So he threaded a bamboo rod across his back and showed how it would wobble if he twisted as he turned. We all tried it, and it really helped us understand when we were moving correctly. We started to learn the chant we are going to perform too. Memorizing apparently disjointed syllables is going to be a challenge for the 2 of us who don't speak Japanese. I intend to do it with an attitude of calm.
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