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Hip Flexor Bounce
Here’s a quick 3 minute clip on a hip flexor bounce… and you’ll get to see my pup, too!
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Exploring Fascial Plasticity
Dancers are always concerned with maintaining or increasing the flexibility in their muscles. To really understand how muscles become more flexible we need to understand how to change the fascia that connect to the muscles. Most dancers know that fascia, which is the dense connective tissue that surrounds the 200+ bones and the 600+ muscles […]
How Quickly Can Change Happen?
The secret of CHANGE is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Socrates We are at that familiar time where many of us are reflecting upon the past year and pondering how we’d like 2019 to be. It started me thinking about how quickly can change really happen? […]
How NOT to use your abdominals
I came across a clip I took of a dancer sucking in her abdominals to bring herself into alignment and thought it might be interesting to talk about what’s really happening when she does this… Let’s watch a couple for a couple of rounds. Let’s dissect what’s happening as she does this. It is a […]
How to get the shoulder blades flat on the back?
“What suggestions do you have to help dancers get their shoulder blades to lie flat on their back?” Felicia Okey dokey! Let’s first talk about the anatomy of the shoulder girdle so it will make sense. It really is important to get those shoulder blades lying flat on the back so they can support the […]
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