January 9th
Happy January! I love the first of the year as it is so filled with potential and possibilities and thoughts of change. As a dancer and dance teacher there have been similar patterns to my thoughts over the years at this time. I vow to decrease my sugar intake, increase my exercise and spend more [...]
December 19th
Everybody has their favorite dance blogs that they bookmark and read. Nichelle at DanceAdvantage.net (a wonderful blog) is having a contest for the top 20 dance blogs. I decided to enter my Dancing Smart blog in the Teacher Talk section. The way this contest works is the blogs with the most comments will win in [...]
April 21st
I am a dance teacher and have been experiencing pain in my sacro-iliac joint on my left side. I figure it may be due to my demonstrating most exercises with my right leg and being supported on the left. I have been to a chiropractor who helped me isolate the problem, but none of the treatments [...]
November 10th
Before we dive into the question of the week I want to share a link that was given to me by a past student of mine. It is a very thought provoking article about shoes and how they influence our gait. Very interesting! Click here to read it – and thanks, Laina, for sending it! [...]
July 27th
I don’t know if you can help me but my question is mainly about my knock knees. I have been dancing all of my life, and now into college, I would love to perform in a Company someday on a more professional level, I feel like I have hit a wall in my improvement and [...]
June 10th
I teach a course on Somatic Studies at Oberlin College and shared with them a YouTube clip on affirmations (since we spend a lot of time exploring how words influence our behavior and our results) I ran into a few of them recently and they told them they are starting their day off by watching [...]
April 29th
About two years ago when I started training very seriously for just ballet, I started having a popping sensation in my hip. I soon learned that I had snapping tendon syndrome. During the winter of that year I hurt it badly enough where I couldn’t walk comfortably and couldn’t dance for about two weeks. It [...]
April 18th
Let’s continue the theme of physical wellness and aging… I am a teacher who teaches 6hrs straight a day, some tap, mostly jazz. I stretch with one of my classes throughout the day. I am finding when I have my next class my hamstrings are even tighter. Any suggestions on why I feel I am [...]
January 31st
Today’s Q&A post includes an excerpt from Train Your Brain: A Teen’s Guide to Well Being. Enjoy! I just found your web site and blog and it is really interesting. I have an almost 7 years old ballerina at home, and I have some concerns. She’s very lean, but she’s not so flexible and I [...]
January 20th
Anneliese Burns Wilson was kind enough to talk to me about training for balance and why it is so important! You can listen to the podcast by clicking here Thanks to all who took the quick survey. I’m going to keep it open for a few more days and then I’ll send more information out [...]