Looking Back
Hello friends, It’s the end of the year and I’ve been reminiscing over the past year, thinking about classes and workshops as well as life events and dancing. A lot of my new discoveries are shared in my blogs; are … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: body awareness
Conversations with My Feet: I Tense Therefore I Am
Hello Friends, Sore feet brought me to a breakthrough in how I move. As someone said, “like a different woman.” The epiphany began with a realization that something I was doing was probably connected with my painful foot. I discovered … Continue reading →
Conversations with My Feet – Talking All the Time
I talk to my feet all the time. I didn’t realize it till this morning when it dawned on me that at some level, I’m always monitoring my feet: thinking to them, worried about them, checking in with them. They’re … Continue reading →
Conversations with My Feet
I’m having conversations with my feet. My poor feet that are danced out, sore, kept me up at night. Worried that they were injured again except that both of them hurt and only one had been injured. Muscles can be … Continue reading →
Doing Posture the Easy Way
What does good posture mean to you? What does it look like and what do you do? Is it more work or less? Can you do that all day? We can pull ourselves up, or push shoulders down. But how … Continue reading →
No Fear! And Move. Freeing the Hips and Using the Head Weight in Dance.
Someone asked me the other day – assumed, really – that I teach dance. I don’t teach dance, I teach movement that helps people dance better. I teach coordination and body knowledge. I connect the dots for people between seeing … Continue reading →
Your Head Weight and Muscular Tension in Dance
Hello my friends! I was out dancing socially and talking with a friend about things each of us is learning, and how we use the body in dance. Dancers talking about dance… I was trying to describe why the head … Continue reading →
Your Head is Too Slow
“Your head is too slow” Sound familiar? In a lesson with my partner, we were working on Reverse Turns in Slow Foxtrot. His teacher told me, “Your head is too slow.” My immediate thought, of course, was to turn it … Continue reading →