Meet the lovely Rachel Fallon, a dancer with the Hofesh Shechter Company. This New York native shares stories about her journey with dancing abroad, moving to London, and teaching. Great tips for budding and professional dancers alike. …
Getting use to your own body after time off might take some patience. Thankfully we have the visual memory and muscle memory systems to help us return, but how else can we continue to improve technique in the present body? Practice Depending on what…
Are you an office worker, freelancer, self-employed or ‘digital nomad’? This one’s for those who tend to sit for long periods at a time on a laptop, desktop computer, and phone. Let’s talk about finding good posture while on our gadgets. I spend a lot of…
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A Mini Dance and Fitness Guide: the Pacific Northwest
Being in the States for Christmas and New Years for the first time in a while meant being able to visit family, friends, teachers and studios I know and love along the Pacific Northwest. After a very relaxing time in Los Angeles, it was time for an adventure…
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Health & Fitness Goals: How the Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis Methods Can Support You in the New Year
As we move on towards another new year, here we go again with our resolutions and goals. According to sites like Statistic Brain and The Guardian, in 2015, people’s top ten resolutions included: losing weight, staying fit and healthy, and wanting to learn something new. In fact, 38%-47% of…
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Best New Blogs in Dance, Health, and Fitness in 2016
Above: Mara Cimatoribus, founder and blogger of SHE-SMILES In no particular order – these new blog platforms are equally amazing, inspiring and necessary for dance, fitness, health, and wellbeing enthusiasts alike. One thing these blogs have in common is that all of the founders/creators/directors/bloggers took…
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A Journey Back to Dance #6: Dealing with Old and New Injuries
(Above: Teaching a GYROKINESIS® class via Video Chat to help dancer, Valeria Caboi, recover from an old hip injury.) Often times dancers have to deal with either old and/or new injuries, especially when returning to training and performance. Even when we train, retrain, and cross train to prevent and reduce injury old…
Here are a few tips my dance clients receive during and after a GYROTONIC® class that I would like to share. These tips are essentially all taught during a dance class, however, private and semi-private training allows an individual to focus on the areas that need more improvement to provide even more depth…
“Are you tired? Run down? Listless? Do you poop out at parties? “ Well, I’ve got a couple of resting tips for you. Legs Up the Wall Pose (Viparita Karani) Viparita Karani literally means “inverted action”. It’s so easy, you won’t want to do anything else. Sit down on the floor or bed,…
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Welcome to The Movement Blog!
Happy 1st of April, internet world! (Hope no one fooled you too badly today). I have been very excited to get this blog rolling. Thank you to everyone for the positive energy and London for the sunshine and flowers. About me For those of you who may or may not know,…