Meeting Yourself Where You Are

Dance is an accrual of practice, not a single moment.

Dance takes time.

Dance is not measured in single moments, it is an accrual of practice. It’s built slowly and steadily over years years.

Dance is the practice of showing up again and again in the body you have that day.

Some days your splits are there and land every turn. Other days you can’t kick above 90 degrees and you fall out of every turn you attempt. This is not evidence that you’re going backwards. It’s evidence that you are human.

Meeting the challenge of each class is the work of dance.

There are countless reasons why your dancing might feel inconsistent: injury, lack of sleep, outside stress, hormones, or just the natural rhythm of being a human being.

What matters is that you show up with the body you have that day and do the work that is available to you.

And if you’re feeling off? Choose one thing, just one point of focus to anchor you.

“I’m tired today, so I’m really going to focus on my posture.”

“I’m going to focus on reaching through my finger tips.”

“I’m going to focus on how good it feels to be in this room with these people.”

And let that one thing be enough.

The simple act of returning again and again is what builds dancers.