connect that with the idea of your lower limbs as roots connecting from the ground up into your heart, grounding and strengthening you,

There’s another reason why you might have reached for a book about dance: we need each other’s stories. We need to know we’re not isolated in our challenges and growth, and we glimpse that through the shared words of another on the creative path.

like dancing and what doesn’t. In other words, don’t forget about the power of solo dance breaks once you start making more dance friends. Here’s why - Dancing alone keeps us honest. It gives us space to explore movements we might feel weird about in public. It gives us space to feel like a total rockstar regardless of what others may see. It gives

Taking moments for “selfish” acts like dancing alone in your room is, in fact, a really responsible, healthy form of self-care. It goes back to what we talked about in the Free Yourself chapter: putting on the metaphorical oxygen mask before you help others with theirs. Expressing yourself and refueling your creative tank is going to allow you to g

The trouble is, just because one dance environment isn’t working for us, we often start believing we are the problem. Or worse, that dance is the problem. What would happen if, instead of shutting down,

fell back in love with the mystery of my own creativity and realized it was worth much more than all the distractions I had been creating to avoid it. What followed was NOT a linear path to

To that end, I’m granting myself permission: permission to “mess up,” to be wild, to be myself. I promise this book will be more fun for you to read that way. (And I know I’ll get a lot more out of it, too.) In giving ourselves permission to

You know why? Because there’s a dance studio in your room right now. In your aloneness there is a dance studio.

People without dance training often don’t feel qualified enough to lead any sort of dance for other people.