More Than Dance

This one is for the dancer who’s tired of feeling guilty for resting and ready to move with purpose, not pressure.

Understand what it means to be dancing  on offense vs defense .

Know exactly how to listen to your body and to understand when to go full out and when to protect yourself.

You don't have to take yourself out of the game.. you get to just switch up your play.

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I came up with this method to help my students understand what to focus on when they are at dance. 

The Cake Method is as follows:

• Layer 1 - Memory
• Layer 2 - Style and Technique
• Layer 3 - Performance Quality 

Make dancing a "Piece of Cake"

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In this episode, I teach you the hack that I learned from observing my mom in action. My mom never strives for perfection she strives for getting things done and getting them done efficiently. 

Being a dancer you learn quickly that there IS a right and wrong and there is an aesthetic demand on looking “perfect”. If we can logically know and understand that perfect doesn’t exist, why do we continually put pressure on ourselves to be perfect? 

Listen to this episode to learn how to finally welcome imperfection and how to actually appreciate it vs. shun it away with my 3 step process. 

1. Understand and believe perfection doesn’t exist
2. Accept that there is no time constraint. 
3. Recognize when its happening and lay it off with acceptance, surrendering, and dumping out your f*cks

Accept what it is and move on you don’t have to strive for perfection all the time.. B+ GET IT DONE!

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The door before the dream. The opportunity that comes and its slightly related to your goal and you don't know if you should take it or leave it, questioning if it is a giant distraction. It can be hard to know whether or not to take these opportunities and in this episode I walk you through my favorite techniques to check in with yourself to find out if saying "yes" will actually get you closer to your goals.

Growth doesn't always come from perfect situations AND opportunities don't have to be perfect to get you to your goals. 

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We move so fast from one "there" to the next that we forget to actually celebrate the moment we are in. If we are always focused on what's next, it can feel like we are never doing enough even when we are hitting the exact goal(s) we used to dream about.

I share a simple practice I recommend to all my students and clients:
At the end of the day, write down two things:
1.A basic win (something that made you feel good or steady like getting your groceries or answering that email)
2.A micro-win that moved you closer to your next big goal

One day you will hit your goal and when you get a chance to read all the receipts of everything you did to accomplish that goal you will feel exponentially more accomplished!

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The only way you win is when you do and the only way you lose is when you don't do. There is always going to be resistance to the unknown and here are some tips on how to combat this to move forward:

• Mistakes are not failures, they are information
• Messy action - the best way to get something done and lower your PERFECT expectations
• When you want to be better at something...surrender... and allow yourself to go through the unknown and fully jump in!
• Understand the difference between perfecting and appreciating
• Aligned Action  > Excuses

The right moment or right time, it might not come the way you imagined so thats why its better to do than to wait.

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This episode is all about knowing yourself as a dancer and as a learner. We talk about the difference between your comfort zone, your sweet spot, and your survival zone and why understanding all three is crucial for your growth and to avoid spiraling into overwhelm. 

• The comfort zone is cozy and you wont be able to stretch there
• The sweet spot is where challenge is approachable
• The survival zone is where everything feels like too much ...growth is tough there because the nervous system is tapped out. 

Learn how to get out of your comfort zone, be in your sweet spot, and quickly shift into your sweet spot in a survival zone situation. Train yourself by changing expectations and letting go of perfection with a slight shift in our intentions throughout a dance class.

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Being kind to yourself is a strategy and its one that we get to learn and practice if we aren't well versed in it. Softness isn't a weakness and when life gets hard we don't need to meet it with more hardness towards ourselves. 

In this episode I discuss what it means to be with your hard moments without overanalyzing them. Sometimes things just happen and we don't need to find a "lesson" in every horrible thing.

We explore how to:

• Accept the downs without anticipating them
• Name your exact feeling to move through it smoother... (inspired by Brene Brown)
• Get to your rainbow moment faster with pattern interruption and self validation
• Let the "f*cks" seep out of the basket

You get to be down without fixing it and you also get to move through it with the grace of a dancer.

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The dance space is a varying space and it can be a hard place to make friends at first. I am going to teach you some tricks to help you implement and position yourself to receive and to make the most out of your experiences at your dance studio.

Doing things like:

• Showing up with intention and say it out-loud
• Introducing yourself and using names and asking questions.
• Finding connections with people around you.
• And the rule of vulnerability
• and MORE!!!

Remember that only YOU can make the most of your own experience and some things we just need to get out of comfort zones a bit to make it happen. 

With an ever evolving community, as people are always coming and going, we can still implement these you get to keep evolving too. Keep saying hi, continue to show up with intention, and to resist the comfort of cliques. Inclusion is leadership and sometimes you get to model the behavior you wish to receive. 

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Performance week is a fun and special week. Here are a few of my getting ready tricks that I love to implement during performance week.

• Snacks, hydration, and nourishment
• Get your back ups in place
• Nurture your body and always account for your injuries
• Slides... funny story 
• Dress Rehearsal and weight shifts
• Endurance training, 25 full outs
• Get an audience to practice on
• Back stage etiquette and energy
• Trusting your practice. avoid spiraling and set your intention
• HAVE FUN and share your talent

I hope if you are having a performance coming up you can find these tips helpful!

See you on the *Stage*

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