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7 Reasons to Ditch your Scale
The 7-Step Process to Reaching Best Body Goals
7 Essential Steps to Reaching your Personal Best Body Through The Whole Dancer, I work with dancer’s to reach your personal best body healthfully and sustainably. I use a 7-Step Process that has worked time and time again to support
The Evolution of Body Image
Please note, this post contains details on a journey through negative body image and disordered eating. If you’re triggered by that subject matter, please do not read. It Starts… It started when I was 13. I’m not sure I had
What should a pro dancer actually weigh?
This question comes up a lot among dancers – whether you’re already dancing professionally or working towards that end, you’re not alone in your desire for guidelines. After all, you’re still expected to list your weight on your professional resume. Although, I sort of think this practice should be banned. It’s definitely not helping anyone.
Coping with Burnout in Dance
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
Yes, Breakfast is that important.
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
NYC Ballet Dancer Deanna McBrearty Shares Dance Career Lessons
Interview with former New York City Ballet Dancer Deanna McBrearty As a native New Yorker, I was spoiled in my younger years. I had access to performances by some of the greatest dance companies and performers in the world. New
Change your approach to dancer health.
Guest post by Annett Bone “I know you’ve lost weight, but I need you to lose more.” Took me a minute to process this statement. Wait a minute, what? As these words sank in, I thought, “I’ve been working so
Benefits of taking lower level classes!
How Lower Level Ballet Classes can Serve You! As a pre-professional student or professional dancer, you often crave the challenging classes with advanced steps, hard combinations, and fast tempos that have you leave the class dripping with sweat. Yes, these
Are you “talented” enough to succeed in dance?
What’s success in dance all about? Do you think you’re lacking natural talent or ability and that’s what’s holding you back? Good news, there’s so much more that goes into it. Your success in dance has a lot less to