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Coaching dancers to reach their highest potential. Using nutrition, meditation and mindset, technical and artistic improvement is a beautiful side effect.

24/07/2024

Courage- the ability to do something that frightens one

How do you build your capacity for courage, and by extension, fear?

By doing things that scare you. *note I do not mean things that literally endanger you

This means things like going back to dance class, trying a new step, trying a genre that you've never done, going to a convention for the first time, auditioning...

After you've done it once, it gets easier each time.

05/07/2024

"We are not balanced, we are BALANCING."

- Fr. Mike Schmitz

This quote hit me hard this morning that life (and dance) is a VERB. It's an action word.

I am balancing on one foot.

I am balancing my work and life.

I am balancing my ambition with my need to rest.

But I am never balanced.

04/07/2024

We all know that excessive screen time is bad for us.

Which is why one of the goals of the Competitive Edge program is to be conscious of screen time and social media usage and to reduce that amount.

Benefits of lower screen time

•better sleep
•improved concentration
•ability to focus for longer periods of time
•less feelings of comparison

Parents do you need help lowering your dancers' screen time? Comment YES if you want this.

03/07/2024

Cultivating discipline and grit to practice is HARD.

Feeling you could have done better and improved more is HARD.

You have to choose which HARD you want to engage with.

28/06/2024

It's OK if it's hard. In fact, it's better if it's hard.

That means you're being challenged. That will make it matter once you finally achieve it.

Allow it to be hard. Embrace frustration and challenge. You will rise to it.

26/06/2024

I have a body that allows me to dance.

So do you.

How amazing is that?

How often do we feel this incredible gratitude that we get to do this thing we love? I am soaked in gratitude for it today.

24/06/2024

If you don't aim you won't hit what you want to. This is why goals, both short-term and long, are so critical to success.

I need to know where I'm headed, as specifically as possible, so I can plan and plot my way forward.

You only hit what you aim at.

18/06/2024

Where you are right now isn't where you're going to finish.

It's easy to feel your current abilities are the best it's going to get but there's so much growth ahead o lf you.

This isn't the finish line yet.

13/06/2024

What is the goal of nutrition? It comes down to two things...

1- How does my body function?

(Proper digestion, proper elimination, ability to recover from strenuous exercise)

2- How does my body feel?

(Always tired or full of energy? Bloated? Troubled sleep?)

Notice how none of these questions has anything to do with how your body looks!

11/06/2024

Confidence is available to everyone by stacking these 3 habits.

It took me a long time to get confident in my work, but thankfully I had perseverance and grit on my side.

Which habit do you need to build?

03/06/2024

Competitions, galas, recitals, rehearsals, team building nights, Christmas parties.... these things can be inconvenient for a parent absolutely. Maybe you need to skip out of work early or take the day off entirely. Maybe you need to scramble to arrange rides and pickups. Maybe that new dress wasn't really in the budget.

But for your child these will be some of the best memories from their competitive dance careers. These are moments they will remember for literally their entire lives. These are core memories. These events are IMPORTANT.

So yes, it's inconvenient for you. But for them it's everything.

Mini and I at the
Gala. And yes, I had to switch a work shift to attend.

17/05/2024

One of the kindest things my teacher ever told me was that I wouldn't be a ballet dancer.

Let me explain...

The conversation went like this, "Tressa, I'm sorrry. I know you want this but your feet just aren't good enough."

This may sound harsh, but she was also very correct. My feet weren't good enough, still aren't and never will be. That is a fact. I do not have the highly arched feet that are required of ballet.

I say it was kind because she wasn't speaking to be cruel and mean or to destroy my dreams (though at the time it felt like all of those), but she was speaking to manage my expectations, to give me context and to allow me to develop what I could realistically hope for. Which was a career in dance, just not as a ballerina.

As devastating as it was, it would have been easier for her to allow me to continue to believe I'd be hired by any reputable ballet company. That would have been true devastation for me farther down the line.

Because she had the hard conversation and told me the truth I was able to find a real home for myself in contemporary dance where I'd belonged the whole time. I doubt I'd have been as open to the style if she hadn't talked to me with such truth.

It's kinder to be truthful, even if the truth sometimes hurts.

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