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April 11th

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I want to believe that the spring is on it’s way

Good Morning! How are you? I feel pretty great actually. I had a swollen throat all weekend until yesterday so haven’t been that active. Very motivated to move my body but since I have been sick over and over this winter I wanted to be careful with this swollen throat of mine. But I felt fine this morning so I left the apartment along with J when he was going to work. There was only one man down at the gym when I got there. I did some warmup stuff, power walked on the treadmill for awhile and then pilates on a mat. By this time the gym was packed and I kinda felt like I was in the way, so I left.

I usually turn on the HGTV channel when I’m on a machine (bike, treadmill or cross-trainer), but this morning I decided to have the local news on when I was on the treadmill (they only have like three channels to choose from). I’ve talked about this before; watching/reading the news in the morning makes my whole day sad. It was mostly just weather reports, CT highway reports and commercials, but in the bottom they had a line of the latest headline news of the world. Sad. Yes, it’s good to know what is happening in the rest of the world, but seeing/reading sad news first thing in the morning isn’t really setting a good tone for the day. I know that there are terrible things going around in the world, I don’t need all the updates 24/7. Not gonna have the news on the exercise machines again. HGTV is so much more fun:)
What do you think? Do you read the news in the morning?

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Move your body every day

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No, it’s not always fun to work out, and no, you won’t always have the energy for it. But healthy hearts, healthy bodies doesn’t just appear or stay healthy if it once was without a little work.
You don’t have to go train for a marathon or lift heavy weights or take a yoga class if that’s not your thing.
Find something you like.
Try new things until you find that fun activity you want to do.
And some days, a simple thing as a walk outside can be enough. It’s ok, you don’t have to run 10 miles, drink green juices and do 400 squats. Any activity to get your body moving a little every day is good, and then hopefully you can also find something fun to do once, twice or few times a week to get you moving a little bit extra.

We only have one body, so we should take care of it ♥

Our Easter weekend

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More weather news from Stamford. Snow. Yup, we have snow again and it’s not just a little either, it’s several inches. Jim is working from home. This weekend was so nice weather-wise too. I even burned the top of my forehead and my chest when we sat on our terrace in just t-shirts. I’m glad we have that weekend in Florida coming up this month:)

Speaking of this weekend. We had three awesome days! On Friday, we left Thor with our neighbor and then drove down to New Jersey to visit Emma, Levy and Cristian. They bought a house almost a year ago and we thought it was time to go see it. Such a cute house and it seems perfect for them. We had a great time playing with Levy (who’s already 3!) and catching up with E and C. After an awesome dinner, we drove back home. It took about 1.5 hour, so not too bad.
On Saturday morning, we took Thor in the car and drove to Tod’s Point Beach in Old Greenwich. We knew that it was the last day of the year that dogs are aloud in the park (which seems odd, there is lots of walks away from the beaches where dogs could join, but I guess they are not allowed in the whole park during summer months). Everybody else brought their dogs too. We came early which was a good thing cause by the time we left it started to be crowded on the parking lots. It was a pretty nice beach, and when you walk more to the tip you can see the skyline of Manhattan, NYC. Thor got to walk a little on a beach once last year, but this time he got to really explore and also walk up to the ocean water. He thought he was supposed to drink the water haha. He doesn’t like to be wet or dirty so he didn’t actually go in. All the other dogs were off leash playing out in the water though.
We bought coffee in a drive thru and sat on our terrace for awhile to eat our breakfast. Went to the gym for an hour and then to a happy hour at a fish restaurant near us. Spent the afternoon out on our terrace again before the basketball started on tv.
Sunday was pretty relaxed. Brunch next door, grocery shopping, dancing in the sun in a park (video will be posted on Wednesday) and a pork chop dinner at home. Not too bad for Easter. 

And today we woke up from the sound of snow plows. I had no idea we gonna get this much snow. Spring one day, winter the next. Our world is upside down. 

Make sure to follow Thor on instagram: @athorablenyc

I haven’t forgotten about you

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Hello! It’s been quiet here, I know. The thing is, I don’t know how I want this blog to continue. I want to keep it for sure, it’s my little baby in a way, but I’m taking some time to decide how I want to proceed with it. I want all my channels (blog, instagram, youtube, twitter) to connect and present more of who I am and what I do. Makes sense right?
I love this blog to be a positive space, a happy place to share this and that; Dance, teaching, my daily life, my travels, art, my thoughts and also other things that can help you, tips for you regarding training and dance and ya, you name it. I actually do know a thing or two:) 

But also…

Over the years, I have written a bunch of posts that never went live, they just stay as drafts. The reason is that I write about something that I care about or have opinions and feelings that I know could possibly create a buzz. I don’t like conflicts and through internet there’s a good chance that people interpret it wrong or starts argue when there’s no need for it (this is why I don’t like facebook and I rarely log in, cause everything there is fake). I don’t say that what I’ve written in the past and not posted would create people being either happy or upset or feeling this or thinking that, not at all, sometimes I just write little stories or deeper thoughts that noone else would care about – aka not worth sharing. But I also avoid posting some of what I’ve written for reasons like I don’t want to be in an argument or having to defend what I believe.
For example, I don’t write about politics cause I don’t know enough and I honestly don’t know where I stand (I can change my mind even in my own sentence) and I don’t write about religion because that is one of the biggest reasons we have war in the world (although, religion has been a huge curiosity of mine since I was a little girl, I even wanted to become a religion teacher if I couldn’t be a dance teacher (in Sweden we have religion classes), so I would actually love to write about it). I love to express myself with dance and writing, so I sometimes create dances in my own living room acting out what I feel or I write a blog post that noone will ever read, just to get it out of my head.

Lately I’ve been kinda tired of being in the quiet. Of course mostly about the dance, art, yoga and fitness world. Certain things makes me so angry, and anger is not a good place to write from. And then other things makes me happy or makes me realize why I’ve loved or been passionate about something, but maybe it needs to improve. So if I do want to write it out and post it or make a video talking about something then I need to be clear with myself what I really mean.

Even this post, I’m not sure I want to make it public. First, I don’t know if you want to read it and if you even care. Second, if I don’t follow up, then what’s the point of my post. See, there’s conflicts inside my own head. And I’m sure this post was a bit blurry and maybe nothing makes sense, but whatever.

The thing is, I’m not perfect, I don’t know it all (fyi, noone does) so I have been playing it safe for that reason. But, you don’t get anywhere in life if you play it safe. 

So, I’ve been taking some time, having serious talks with myself and getting clear on who I am, what I stand for and what I want to share.

Keep checking in here, there will be updates coming:)