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Author: Jess Spinner

Summer Intensive Prep Part II : Getting Noticed

Summer Intensive Prep Part II : Getting Noticed

Summer Intensive Prep Part II : Show up with Confidence + Get Noticed When you head off to intensive, whether it’s your first or your fifth, it’s a valuable time to make contacts for your future career aspirations. If you’re

Jess Spinner April 21, 2019May 19, 2021 Career Advice No Comments Read more

Summer Intensive Prep Part I : Navigating a New Food Situation

Summer Intensive Prep Part I : Navigating a New Food Situation

Summer Intensive Prep Part I : Navigating a New Food Situation Summer Intensives mean a lot of new things…new teachers, new competition, new environment and of course a new food situation. I’ve worked with a number of dancer’s who saw

Jess Spinner April 16, 2019May 21, 2021 Food Strategies + Meal Plans, Mindset + Goals No Comments Read more

Coping with Burnout in Dance

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Ways to Cope with Burnout Burnout – a very real mental issue for dancers that can get even the best of us. It’s the dread of going to the studio, not feeling motivated in class, wishing you were anywhere else

Jess Spinner April 3, 2019April 3, 2019 Career Advice, Mindset + Goals No Comments Read more

How to Meal Prep for Healthy Eating Success

How to Meal Prep for Healthy Eating Success

Meal Prepping : A Key to Consistent Health Eating At the Whole Dancer, we love working towards goals that create a mentally and physically healthier version of yourself as a dancer. Some research suggests, it takes 30 days to establish

Jess Spinner March 21, 2019March 13, 2019 Food Strategies + Meal Plans No Comments Read more

No Celery Juice Required

No Celery Juice Required

No Celery Juice Required I’ve been a health coach since 2013 and a health nut for as long as I can remember. Before my nutrition science interest really blossomed, I was diet trend obsessed and searching for the quickest fixes

Jess Spinner March 17, 2019May 23, 2023 Food Strategies + Meal Plans No Comments Read more

Mindfulness + Mental Health Considerations for Dancers

Mindfulness + Mental Health Considerations for Dancers

Mindfulness for Dancers :  Tips and Benefits Featuring Terry Hyde MA, MBACP Lately I’ve noticed that mindfulness has been the buzzword on social media. People constantly posting articles about how to live a mindful life, eat mindfully, work mindfully, and

Jess Spinner March 13, 2019March 24, 2019 Mindset + Goals No Comments Read more

Apolla K-Warmer and Joule Review

Apolla K-Warmer and Joule Review

Summer Intensive Essentials We’ve had the pleasure of reviewing Apolla Performance products on The Whole Dancer blog before – you can check out our last review here! Well, since then Apolla has come out with some incredible new products that we

Jess Spinner March 7, 2019March 4, 2019 Career Advice No Comments Read more

Knee and Ankle Alignment in Ballet

Knee and Ankle Alignment in Ballet

Yes, we care about the health of your knees + ankles also! “Send you knees over your toes in plie.” “Hips stacked on top of your knees, stacked on top of your toes.” “Don’t let your knees roll in.” How

Jess Spinner February 28, 2019February 24, 2019 Cross Training, Health Opinions in Dance No Comments Read more

Yes, Breakfast is that important.

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Yes, Breakfast is that important. “The most important meal of the day.”  “Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk.” Michael Pollan “It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel

Jess Spinner February 24, 2019May 22, 2021 Food Strategies + Meal Plans, Nutrition for Dancers No Comments Read more

One Dancer’s Experience with The Whole 30

One Dancer’s Experience with The Whole 30

One Whole Dancer on The Whole30 Guest post by Lydia Clinton Jess posted a video about the Whole30 back in October which coincidentally was when I was right in the middle of trying it! I’d heard of Whole30 when my

Jess Spinner February 21, 2019February 20, 2019 Food Strategies + Meal Plans, Nutrition for Dancers No Comments Read more
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