This week, let’s explore how we’re using our eyes. In class (and throughout life) we can simply be curious and notice things such as: Where am I looking? Up? Down? Around? Out? Are my eyes open? Closed? What am I aiming at? Where am I headed? Is my vision more focused? Blurry? Zoomed in? Zoomed out? What am I looking at? Or looking for? What am I seeing/connecting with? How am I orienting in the world around me? And then, how does that orientation feel (in my body, mind, hear

Ooh, friend. I think this focus is going to feel so good! This week as we dance, we’ll simply tune into our body and explore what it’s like to play with circles, spirals, twists, and rotation as we move. We’ll experiment with how it feels to reach, flow, stretch, and wiggle in ways to help keep our joints, muscles, and fascia all healthy, free, functioning well, and feeling really great. • We’ll spiral our arm bones & feed our shoulder joints nourishing circles… • We’ll gift

After three beauuuuuutiful explorations, it's time we come back home to rest within our integration practice of “ease & just being here now.” This delicious focus always has 2 parts: 1) Ease We’ll move our body and invite the sensation of ease into our dance. Ease in our shoulder joints... Ease in our spine... Ease in our facial muscles... etc... We’ll still be welcome to move as vigorously as we’d like moment to moment— we’ll simply also invite ease into that vigor. Easy doe

Ooh friend… this is going to be another delicious one…. Whereas last week was about giving ourselves (and life) grace, this week is about giving ourselves space. Last week we explored things like embracing the messiness… the grey in-between… the need for multitasking sometimes… and how it feels in our body to remove the pressure of “perfect” circumstances, outcomes, or performance. Oh man— it felt soooooooooo gooooooood! This week, we’re giving ourselves the gift of space.

Ok, friend. As always, I’m so excited to dive into this next exploration with you. Let’s start with this: Do you ever let the fact that you can’t do something as ideally or perfectly as you’d like keep you from doing the thing at all? This time I don’t mean “perfect” as in your skill or ability (we explored that one last September here)… Rather, I mean in terms of circumstances, environment, preferences, & conditions. As in, the conditions aren’t as perfect or ideal as you’d

Ooh, friend…. It’s another one of those weeks where I mostly just have questions….. Sometimes, we focus on feeling certain things. For example: confident, strong, empowered, centered, grateful, compassionate, agile, mobile, grounded, etc… This week’s invitation is to explore: what happens if you give yourself permission to feel sexy? This feeling is just for us, babe. There’s no audience or judge watching you...You don’t need to “look” sexy for anyone else. You don’t need to

Ahhhhhhh….. time for another week of ease and just being here now…. and it is going to feel so delicious. As always these weeks have 2 parts: 1) Ease We’ll invite ease into our body as we dance. We can still move as vigorously as we’d like, but letting even those vigorous movements feel as easy as they possibly can. No extra tension or effort-ing needed. Easy does it. 2) Just being here now We’ll focus on sensing our body as a way to stay really present in the moment. We’ll s

Friend, I’m so excited to dance this focus with you. But first, a little story… It was the summer before my senior year at UNI, and I was working in the weight room. My job was to clean the equipment, and scan student IDs. At the time, I loved lifting weights and talking about lifting weights, so I was right at home. One day, a young man came in, walked over to a rack, set a bar on his shoulders, and proceeded to do something totally crazy: he started doing lunges in all so

We are half-way through 2026, friend. Can you believe it? The past 6 months have felt really…. fast. Life is really wonderful —it’s great (and I’m so grateful)… Buuuuuut sometimes (like lately), I can find myself so zoomed in on what I need to do right-this-minute-TODAY, that I can find myself sort of treading water through life rather than swimming towards anything specific. Do you ever find yourself feeling that way? I mean, I get it… Life is gloriously FULL! And of course

Oh my goodness, friend! What a month Maycember was. :) :) We explored sensing togetherness, dance as me time, and sensing our elasticity & spring-loaded ease…. whew! Suddenly, June is here! This week, we’ll come back to our monthly integration focus of “ease & just being here now.” This beautiful focus always has 2 parts to it: Part 1: Ease We’ll dance (and move as vigorously as we’d like) while inviting ease into our body. Ease in your shoulders. Ease in your feet. Ease in

Welcome to Part 8 of our series on Cultivating Organic Fitness! Hello, my friend! I’m so excited for this focus… This week, we’ll be nourishing our elasticity & sensing spring-loaded ease. Ok, so that’s a mouthful. :) Basically, we’re gonna tap into our springy-ness. Why? We’re incredibly fluid, spacious, dynamic, responsive, adaptable, mobile beings! Beneath our skin lives something so beautiful and intelligent: a vast, living web of interconnected muscles, bones, ligaments

Whoosh— another week is here, friend! Thanks so much for joining me in our focus of Dance as “me time” last week. It was such a great reminder of the maaaaaany ways we can really personalize our experience each and every class. Ahhhh—— I love it so much! We’re going to continue with this focus for one more week…. So do come dance your heart out with us this week, everybody — you definitely deserve some “me” time. Come sweat away any stress, and recenter in that delicious jo

Wow, friend. I heard the term Maycember for the first time this past week, and boy did it resonate. This past week many of you mentioned feeling similarly…. Mostly… really really BUSY. Work, weddings, graduations, sports, spring concerts, finals, end of school-year busy-ness… plus the nicer weather and the desire to plant the garden, the need to mow, and the urge to go on fun adventures…. Not to mention all of the unexpected not-so-fun things that can also arise that require

Y'all, last week’s discussions were just what my heart needed. Thank you. After the past few weeks deep-dives into Flexibility, Gratitude, and Full-spectrum Living, this week we’re coming back home to ease. Ease as in the opposite of hard. Ease as in the opposite of struggle. Ease as in the opposite of dis-ease. There’s a time and place for embracing the hard and effortful... the growth and improvement…but these “ease” weeks are here to remind us to also: • soften into onenes

Ooh, friend. I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on this one... One of our son’s (homeschool) projects this year was to write the history of his life so far. It was a BIG project --- part photo-book, part autobiography. He spent months working on it —hours choosing photos, writing about moments of his life, and designing the entire (150-page) book through Canva. His book is beautiful, and I will forever treasure it. But as we sat together to proofread it one day before sendin

Ooh, friend, our focus on flexibility felt soooooo wonderful last week. Many thanks for joining me in that focus. This week, let’s come back to sensing & practicing gratitude. As we dance in class (and move through life), we'll simply practice asking ourselves again and again the big question of the week: what can I be grateful for in this moment? Then we can also sense things like: how does tapping into gratitude feel? What do we sense in our body, mind, emotions, or spir

Welcome to Part 7 of our series on Cultivating Organic Fitness ! Well, friend, this past week was interesting. In 2 different classes, we had some sounds beyond our control that required a bit of… flexibility . :) 1) On Monday, a smoke detector located on a very high ceiling above us chirped very loudly approximately every 60 seconds… 2) On Wednesday night, at the start of Zoom class, my microphone was accompanied by a loud buzz that I couldn’t find the source of… Both sound

Hello, beautiful soul! I hope you had a most wonderful spring break week. We are back from a quick camping trip, and I can’t wait to get back to the dance floor with you. This week, let’s dive into a somatic exploration of safety… The big questions of the week: 1). What does safety feel like? What do you sense in your body when you feel safe? Unsafe? What do you sense/notice in your: Feet Shoulders Face Heartbeat Belly Breath Eyes Muscles ________ 2). Do you move (or hold yo

Hello, friend! This week, we’re going to dive back into our Cultivating Organic Fitness series with a special focus on two sweet modes of training. Remember that old story about the tortoise and the hare? You know—the one where they race, and the really cocky hare speeds away at the start? Then the hare stops to take breaks, and even snooze a bit? And, in the end, the tortoise who is cruising along slowly (but steadily) wins? This week, we’re going to use those two charac

Yeppers—- it’s time for another ease week, friend. After our last 3 deep dives into our breath, heart, and then feeling our feelings, let’s take a week to eeeeeeease our way on into this beautiful month ahead of us. “Ease & just being here now” is a focus we come back to often. While we can still move as vigorously as we’d like throughout class, we can think of this focus (once it is familiar) as a bit of mental rest week. Instead of diving into a new mental concept or prac