Typically when I start my salsa private lessons I talk about how in salsa we take 6 steps within 8 counts and that there are two moments of pause or a breath at the 4 and 8 counts. I point this out first so that as the lesson progresses I…
Posts Tagged with Resilience
Leadership Lessons from Dance – When to Teach and When to Learn
Recently at a performance team practice it was brought to my attention that my desire to help others and teach was getting in the way of my own learning and growth as a dancer. I was sacrificing my time to help others before I fully had all aspects of the…
The Tea Story
This morning as I rushed out the door I decided not to make my usual morning tea. As I drove I thought about if or how I could still get some made. I remembered a tea bag I had in the car. My thoughts then went down the rabbit hole…
Leadership Lessons from Dance – Cha Cha through Obstacles
I was speaking with a friend recently who confided in me that she was feeling stuck and as though she was not growing or advancing. In fact she said she felt like she was going backwards instead of forward. This made me think of dance, of course. I offered her…
Bloom Where You Are Planted / Re-Root
On my way to a professional staff retreat I had a moment of extrapolating a transferable lesson where I could have been frustrated. I had never been to the location before so I programmed the address into my GPS and was following the directions however the last turn it suggested…
