{"id":150,"date":"2011-08-06T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T07:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2011-09-13T10:22:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T00:22:22","slug":"your-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/aerobic-classes\/your-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"When did you join Jacki&#8217;s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When did you first experience a Jacki&#8217;s Aerobic Dancing class?<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember the name of your first session?\u00a0Click\u00a0<a title=\"Session Names\" href=\"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/your-jackis-class\/session-names\/\">here<\/a> to see a list of all of them.<\/p>\n<p>Who was your first instructor?<\/p>\n<p>Why have you stayed with Jacki&#8217;s program?<\/p>\n<p>Tell us your story.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll go first to get the ball rolling &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In 1981 I read an article in the Sunday Telegraph about Jacki Sorensen and her<br \/>\nAerobic Dancing program which had recently started up in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>I had been a dance student for ten years (ballet, jazz and tap) through my childhood<br \/>\nand adolescence, and although I&#8217;d attended traditional &#8220;aerobics&#8221; classes for fitness,<br \/>\nI had really missed the &#8220;dance&#8221; in my life.<\/p>\n<p>I attended a class on the top floor of the old RSL building in George Street in the city.<br \/>\nThe instructor was Wendi Eston (ex Australian ballet), and there were only six of us in<br \/>\nthe class.\u00a0\u00a0I loved it and was thrilled to discover that there was a class running near where I lived at Drummoyne.<\/p>\n<p>I joined up there where Holly Muggleston was the instructor and never<br \/>\nmissed a class.\u00a0 Subsequently Holly suggested that I might want to consider instructing.<br \/>\nI did and my first class was in Balmain in September 1983 with four students!<br \/>\nThat session was called Harmony.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Diana Royds<\/em><\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When did you first experience a Jacki&#8217;s Aerobic Dancing class? Do you remember the name of your first session?\u00a0Click\u00a0here to see a list of all of them. Who was your first instructor? Why have you stayed with Jacki&#8217;s program? Tell us your story. I&#8217;ll go first to get the ball rolling &#8230; In 1981 I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/aerobic-classes\/your-contributions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When did you join Jacki&#8217;s?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerobic-classes","category-dance-fitness","category-dance-fitness-sydney","category-dancers-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}