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Pole position Nelson emergency doctor Jane Hopgood has found empowerment in turning 50, through getting off the floor and discovering the beauty of movement, she tells our writer Tracy Neal.
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t first, it wasn’t easy; Exposing the legs she didn’t like to a roomful of people and then dropping to the floor at her first attempt at spinning around the pole. “I was so embarrassed. I was among the older of the group and I felt really self-conscious about that, plus standing in front of a full-length mirror. “I went to do a simple move – a spin around the pole and I just dropped to the ground like a stone while others in the class were achieving it.” In pole you need bare legs to grip to the pole and a mirror to adjust your position, but this first attempt was Jane’s lightbulb moment. When she got up the next morning, she almost fell out of bed.
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