Dance your body!
Workshops to Go Do you want to stand out in your competitions and showcases? Do you often wonder why something isn’t working and you don’t know what to do? Would you like to learn to give up unneeded tension … Continue reading →
Ballroom Inspiration from a marathon runner mega star
I love this guy! He is Eliud Kipchoge (El-ee-yood Kip-cho-gay). Eight straight marathons and Olympic gold are his. He won the Berlin marathon on Saturday in a world record time of 2 hours, 1 minute, 39 seconds. He is not far … Continue reading →
Ilya and I danced to Aretha Franklin’s “Respect”. Honoring her and what fun we had!
Strategizing change
When I was dancing professionally, I accepted change as a way of life. My career took me all over the country and the world – I changed cities, theaters, hotels, studios, planes, trains, buses and restaurants, often for 3 month … Continue reading →
My first AT teacher helped me to be comfortable with being clueless!
Yea, clueless was liberating. I was spending so much time trying to be right with my posture that I soon realized that my idea of right was all ‘wrong’. So what’s better than assuming that there is a right to … Continue reading →
How do you THINK about your “posture”?
When I was a young ballet dancer, people commented on how straight my posture was – no misappropriated curves in my spine (actually few curves altogether!), basically straight. I would hear “you have such good posture”. I thought I did … Continue reading →
Oops I did it again……!!
If you never have pain or soreness , don’t read on. But if you are like most of us humans — myself included, you will push yourself to a point that is too far beyond your challenge zone. I grew … Continue reading →
Arm styling as a function of your whole body
When you are working on arm styling, do you singularly focus on your arms? Although this seems logical, anatomically we move our arms from our back, closer to our spines. Our body architecture defines how we optimally move in space … Continue reading →
Is google good for our nervous system?
Imagine over dinner, you and a friend are trying to remember the name of an unusual named object and you both know what it is, BUT….., you simply can’t come up with it. It is on the tip of your tongues. … Continue reading →
Could un-learning be the best learning?
Learn, learn, learn…. It’s a noble process that feeds our soul and ego. Learn a new skill to improve yourself, learn French, or add a checkmark to a long delayed To Do list. But what if unlearning makes learning so … Continue reading →