<p><span style="font-weight:normal;">Welcome to Day 16<br>WYN: towel, water, all your will</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:normal;"><br>Alright strong and beautiful people.  Today is cardio, I called it speed round because that is one of the pieces that will help you get faster and who doesn’t want speed lightning footwork to dance to Scatman??? <br>I had a couple issues with my timer for some reason, but do not fear: you are getting the same amount of workout that was planned for!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:normal;"><br>My wish for you on this Tuesday is that you learn to love the training.<br></span><br></p>

<p><span style="font-weight:normal;">Welcome to Day 15<br>WYN: maybe a wall, shoes you want to be good at turning with 😉</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:normal;"><br>Hi beautiful people, you have made it to the third week.  Congratulations!  I am sending you kisses and good energy to continue.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:normal;"><br>Today is another really condensed video, so you all have the opportunity to do it.  But if this is all new and intense, I suggest you take it in pieces.  Can I do the spot well?  Is my posture solid?  Can I do my quarter turn in place?  Then try the walking turns or maybe not, maybe you stay with the first drills.  I want you to keep in mind: the position of the free leg doesn’t matter, as long as you are turning first from your standing leg, keeping your turn out, knowing how much you are going to turn and then deciding what the free leg wants to do and where it wants to go.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:normal;"><br>If you already know all these drills, let’s be honest… we all need to practice them more.<br></span><br></p>

<p><span style="font-weight:normal;">Welcome to Day 13<br>WYN: a space… that is not a typical dance space (an office, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, the kids walking around)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:normal;"><br>I love today.  We often feel like we need the specific space and time to dance or do a drill, but honestly for me life is an excuse to dance, move and just enjoy my body.  I have a tattoo on my forearm that says: This is the absolute truth.  And it has many meanings, ironically, I love words so much and I thought that was the only thing I could tattoo on my body that would always be true because it could change meaning as it went.  One of the main reasons I have it tough, is that it’s on my skin, my body, and I thought: there are two types of beliefs, some people think we die and the soul lives on, some people think we die and it is the end of all.  In any case, we all agree that after this life, the body dies.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:normal;"><br>Yes, let that sink in.  It is literally the one special thing that connects us through this physical thing we are in.  Obviously, I am not saying that my way of exploring it should be everybody’s way, I am just saying: enjoy it!<br></span><br></p>

<p><span style="font-weight:normal;">Welcome to Day 12<br>WYN: pen, paper, comfortable sitting place and your map from last week</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:normal;"><br>Alright beautiful people, I know it can be hard to motivate yourself to do the drill when it is not your favorite, but again, I promise it will help you so much, as much as you hate me now, you will love me later… especially when we come back from Covid and you have to dance to all these new songs you haven’t danced to before!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:normal;"><br>This week, we are completing our musical map with the accents we hear and would like to accent.  We are not moving yet, but it is coming.  If this is intense and new, try and re-listen to the song by yourself and see if you can hear all the accents we wrote down and count them.  If that was easy, find other accents to mark and maybe even use a different song.<br></span><br></p>

<p><span style="font-weight:normal;">Welcome to Day 11<br>WYN: blanket, mat or bed (if that’s not going to put you to sleep)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:normal;"><br>Ahhhhh… body awareness, probably one, if not the most, underrated tool for movement… for life.  I feel like we hear more about awareness in the psychological, mental, social aspects of things.   We know if we are aware of our luggage, trauma, qualities, histories we tell ourselves, it is going to be easier to do the work: how can I work on something I do not even know is there?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:normal;"><br>Well, surprise, surprise, it is the same when we work on our body movement.  And yes, any kind of movement is therapy for the body and as everything is linked, for the mind.  Sometimes I talk to some people and they tell me: I’m not spiritual, that’s all up there, airy, stuff.  And I go: Do you breath?  Do you eat?  Do you go to the gym?  Do you read?  Do you dance?  Are you a human?  If yes, you are spiritual, maybe the gym is where you find you resources, time for yourself, process things… maybe it’s your shower time.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:normal;"><br>Anyway, I veered off far from the path.  All that to say: if you know where your body is at, you can start working on it.  If you don’t even know that your core is relaxed, how can you expect to engage it?<br>I hope you enjoy this short exercise… and me rambling about spirituality, path and all these things. 😉<br></span><br></p>

<p><span style="font-weight:normal;">Welcome to Day 10<br>WYN: your head<br>This is one of my favorite one, because it is so simple, but it feels so weird.  And when something feels weird, you can assume it is because you have not been doing it ever… or rarely.  It is interesting how intelligent our body is and much motion we already have integrated in our bodies, but when we learn a new discipline, everything goes out the window: no idea what to do with my arms, my head, my legs.  Give yourself and your body a little bit more credit, you’ve got this, you just haven’t thought of how to integrate it in your favorite dance yet!<br></span><br></p>