@Maile-McCarthy That's great! It's really not that unrelated though if you think about it, just a different way of understanding and application.
The kinesthetic/tactile learning involved in fitness and play is much like sculpture for drawing. We learn how our bodies move, how to observe our clients and how they move, we look at them from many different angles. It gives us a three dimensional feel to situations and (I think) improves understanding of physics, and thus our visual articulation.
That's why animators are thoroughly encouraged to act out their scenes or look at live reference as much as they can, so they can FEEL the movement and interpret it as realistically as possible. They get a sense of where to emphasize frames for timing that creates that realistic weight of a character or prop, as well as seeing form in motion from a variety of angles.
