Pointe To Rise

Ballet is a graceful dance form that everyone loves for its finesse and focus. But for dancers to bring themselves to the next level, many of them pursue teaching, which makes them realize the importance of serving others. This is exactly what Sarah Arnold discovered on her own ballet journey. Joining Susanne Puerschel, she tells how her passion as a ballet dancer led to a ballet instructor's life. She explains how her current endeavors allowed her to make dancing not only all about herself, discover the right way to motivate her students, and even transcend into healing and social issue. Susanne and Sarah also discuss the role of ballet in appreciating oneself, diving deep into how it plays out on self-care and taking a break in times of challenge and injuries.

There is so much more to dancing than beautiful movements performed on stage. For some, it is healing and even science. Sophia Selene Martins has the research to back this up. She is an international neuroscientist, dancer, performer, and dance teacher, who, through her neuroscience of dance project and dance integrated healing method, provides neurocognitive and dance healing tools. In this episode, Susanne Puerschel talks to her about the things she learned from the neuroscience perspective about using dance for mental well-being and healing purposes. She highlights the importance of embracing arts as potential sources of information about human nature and the human brain, encouraging the community to step outside of the box and demand change. Join Sophia in this conversation and open your eyes to a world where Art and science can co-exist and why we should start integrating this fact into our lives.

Our bodies contain so much wisdom that could help us go through life. We need only to learn how to listen to them. What better way to do that than through dance? Taylor Behringer is a life-long dancer, mom, healer, and dance educator who specializes in helping professional dancers heal their relationship with their bodies. She guides dancers in using the wisdom of their own bodies to shed the beliefs and programming that puts them at war with their body and create a new way of living. She sits down with Susanne Puerschel to discuss the kind of work she is doing and the journey that led her to who she is now. Taylor taps into her struggles of perfectionism and learning how to hold a space of acceptance and compassion for herself. Extending this to others, she talks about how we can start our healing journey by learning how to accept who we are, overcome ego and pain, and create change.