Do Your Students...

✔ Struggle to focus?

✔ Need the same correction over and over?

✔ Seem disconnected from their bodies?

✔ Plateau despite working hard?

✔ Find coordination surprisingly difficult?

It isn't because they lack talent.

Often, they're missing the neurological foundations that make higher-level dance learning possible.

That's exactly what the Radiant Spark Dance was designed to address.

In an upcoming 2 Day Radiant Dance Teacher workshop, you'll discover:

Why 2 students can receive exactly the same correction, but only one is able to use it effectively.

The difference isn't motivation or talent, as it so often seems.

What is it?

It's nervous system and brain readiness.

• Readiness to Learn
• Readiness to Progress

Readiness is due to:

• Completion of the Developmental Movement Patterns
• An Integrated Brain State

Once you begin looking through this lens, you'll never teach the same way again.  

ONCE YOU SEE IT...YOU CAN'T UN-SEE IT!

And in the process your job just got easier and more rewarding!

Why do Students Need This?

The daily life of a child ideally should have done the job of securing all the movement patterns needed for life and higher level skills such as dance.  However,  many of our students show up to their dance classes without these foundational skills. It's as though important pieces of their neurological foundation were never fully developed, leaving gaps that make higher-level dance learning far more difficult than it needs to be.

Children, teens and adults are simply not as active as they used to be, with screen time being a major culprit, thereby missing out on the movement which wires the central nervous system.   

A Compounding Issue:

Our students of today, have more social pressures than ever before and are often highly over scheduled.

This leads to students who are almost guaranteed to show up to your classes:

STRESSED!

And a stressed brain is not capable of learning even with the best strategies and exercises and all the love and kindness you can shower on them.

Imagine the Teacher You Could Become

Imagine...

✨ Beginning every class with a simple routine that prepares your students' brains and bodies to learn.

✨Recognizing why a student is struggling before they even realize it themselves.

✨ Spending less time repeating corrections because your dancers are genuinely ready to receive them.

✨ Confidently adapting your teaching for preschoolers, teens, adults, and everyone in between.

✨ Walking into every class with a toolkit of practical strategies instead of hoping today's lesson "lands."

✨ Being known as the teacher whose students are focused, coordinated, expressive, and excited to learn.

✨ Helping parents see—and understand—the difference your teaching makes.

✨ Having a unique approach that blends artistry, science, and embodiment in a way that sets you apart.

✨ Feeling inspired, creative, and confident every time you teach.

This is about more than learning a new warm-up.

It's about becoming the kind of teacher who creates the conditions where every student can thrive and being observant in a whole new way.

Seeing the challenge and immediately knowing the solution!

Introducing...

The Radiant Spark Dance is:

The Most Powerful Way to Begin Every Dance Class

Creator, Mariah-Jane, has brought together all of her extensive complimentary training to create an upgraded version of the well known, Brain Dance. And upon learning all the elements (see graphic) you will gain tools to work with students at various points through class to solve a variety of common dancer challenges. 

Benefits to the Students YOU Will See in Class

It's Not Just Your Students Who Will Transform...

🔍 1. A New Way of Seeing

Develop the ability to recognize what your dancers need before challenges become frustrations.  This new lens will influence every class you teach- not just the Radiant Spark Dance.

😊 2. Easier, More Effective Classes 

Students are more focused, corrections stick more quickly and classes flow with greater ease. 

❤️ 3. Rediscover the Joy of Teaching 

Spend less time feeling frustrated and more time doing what you love- helping dancers grow with confidence and joy.

🌟 4. A Unique Programme That Sets You Apart

Offer something parents immediately recognize as valuable and that distinguishes your teaching or studio.

📈 5. Stronger Student Retention & Growth 

When students experience success, they stay engaged, continue dancing and become enthusiastic ambassadors for your studio.

The Brain Dance has become increasingly popular in dance education—but how it is taught and how it is applied can make all the difference.

Over the past 25+ years, I haven't simply used the Brain Dance—I have explored the developmental movement patterns behind it from multiple perspectives, continually asking one question:

"How can this best serve dancers of all ages?"

My approach brings together knowledge from developmental movement, dance science, somatics, reflex integration, kinesiology, Brain Gym®, ballet pedagogy, and nearly 40 years of teaching dancers of every age and level.

Rather than simply teaching a sequence of movements, I help you understand:

• Why each pattern matters
• What you are looking for in your students
• How to adapt it for different ages and abilities
• When to use specific elements to solve common dance challenges
• How to build stronger technique by strengthening the foundations beneath it

This is why I created the Radiant Spark Dance—an expanded, dance-specific evolution of the Brain Dance that combines developmental movement with practical teaching strategies you can begin using immediately.

My work has been shaped through study with leaders in the field, alongside decades of real-world application in dance studios and classrooms.

I have presented internationally for the last 17 years.  In 2024, I was honoured to receive the Royal Academy of Dance Innovation in Dance Teacher Award for my contribution to dance education.

Most importantly, this isn't theory.

These ideas have been refined through nearly three decades of teaching thousands of dancers—from preschoolers taking their very first class to pre-professional students, adults, teachers, and studio owners.

Everything you'll learn in this workshop has been tested, refined, and designed to help make your teaching more effective, your classes run more smoothly, and your students thrive.

Your learning journey will begin with the Brain Dance, exploring the 6 developmental movement patterns, and the additions of vestibular development and the use of tactile.

Brain Dance + has additions made by The Radiant Dance Teacher to address integration of primitive reflexes and to include the highest level of body organization: Stillness

The Brain Dance + also includes deepening understanding of each patterns with the goal of targeted usage for common dance challenges. 

With this Framework you will:

• Learn to see your dancers through an entirely new lens—one that reveals why they struggle and what to do about it
• New highly effective diagnostic tools and solutions

New Lens Example:

Instead of simply correcting numerous details and using cool strengthening strategies (like PBT) for developing Arabesque... 

You'll know how to ask:

• Is Head-Tail fully embodied?

• Is Cross-Lateral organizing the ribs?

• Is Breath providing the core support?

Instead of guessing...

You'll know what to look for.

A Great Compliment and Addition to Your Existing Training Methods

The design of the material is specifically to support you to have depth of knowledge and insights beyond what is traditionally addressed in dance classes and stretch and strengthening methodologies.  

That is what makes this work so valuable!

You can use it as a stand alone tool.  You will also be delighted how much it can enhance other training tools, such as the very popular PBT (Progressing Ballet Technique).   Therefore, this workshop will increase the value of all your other investments!

All of the additions that make up the Radiant Spark Dance, can be easily and effectively added into the structure of the Brain Dance.   This can be done with:

• Layering Skills
• Small Movement Additions and Insertions, such as Brain Gym activities
• Progressions
• Imagery/Ideas/Cues that deepen embodiment

What you will learn in the 2 Day Intensive

Focus is on the Brain Dance +

The 2 Day Course will give you:

• Confidence to use the Brain Dance + for Preschool Classes
• Some Variations and Progressions for this level
• A version for older students, teens and adults
• Insights on how to spot deficits in wiring that is affecting higher level technique
• New strategies and cuing for common dancer challenges

Choose which Version which of Participation is Right for YOU

Come Live In Person

Attend Online (LIVE or watch recordings)

In Person Location Details:

Parking is easy at this location: Guaranteed!

Start time of 9:30 to help alleviate any traffic congestion needed to get to main routes.  Parking is also FREE.

Teachers often tell me they leave these workshops seeing movement—and teaching—in a completely different way.

That is exciting! 

How will this workshop transform you?

These aren't comments about my personality. 

They're comments about what teachers noticed changing in themselves and their students

Imagine Six Months From Now... 

It's halfway through the dance season.

Instead of wondering why one student progresses effortlessly while another continues to struggle, you immediately recognize what's happening beneath the surface.

Instead of repeating the same correction five times, you know how to prepare your dancers so they can actually use it.

You begin each class with purpose and confidence, knowing you're preparing your students' brains and bodies to learn—not just warming them up.

Your classes feel calmer.

Your teaching feels clearer.

Parents notice the difference.

Your dancers become more coordinated, expressive, and confident.

And perhaps the biggest change of all...

You no longer see what your students can't do.

YOU SEE WHAT THEY NEED

Once you begin looking through that lens, you'll never teach the same way again.

This programme has been designed to allow you to learn all you'll need to know to implement the Radiant Spark Dance confidently and effectively into your dance classes.

The material is crafted into easy to follow content delivered Live (if you are able) and then into an online resource.

You will have enough depth of knowledge that you will have variety and the ability to continue and grow your own practice to fit the needs of you, your students and parents and the studio environment. 

A Comprehensive Combo:

Foundations - Progressions 

• 12 Hours of LIVE Instruction over 2 Days: LIVE
• 9:30-4:30 pm PST each day
• In Person or on Zoom
• Dozens of Pages of Hand-Outs and Images to Print
• Music and Additional Resources
• FB Community for Ongoing Support
• CPD Certificate upon completion for 12 hours

Bonus: Value of $497

An online course with lots of additional information and resources is part of your purchase!

You can use this to keep learning more and to keep referring to at any time.

What does this mean?

You do NOT need to worry about taking notes.  You can fully immerse yourself in the experiencing in your body!

In a Nutshell

Your Investment Includes 

✔ 12 hours live instruction

✔ Online recordings

✔ Music Links

✔ Imagery Resources

✔ Certificate, good for 12 hours of CPD

✔ Facebook Community

✔ Bonus Online Course

✔ Future Certification and Future Opportunities for Revenue Pathways

If you need a different payment option due to circumstances, please reach out. 

Reward for your Single Payment:

FREE Access to: Teaching Young Children Course

Example of Core Content:

Two Pathways for Continued Growth

Your two-day Intensive is just the beginning.

From there, you'll have the opportunity to continue in one or both of two pathways:

Teaching Mastery — Ongoing in-depth learning for either Young Children or Older Students, leading toward Radiant Dance Teacher Certification.

Age appropriate elements of The Radiant Spark Dance will be shared. 

Business Growth — Learn to develop unique programmes and additional revenue streams using the Radiant Spark Dance as the framework to create the classes.

Grow your expertise. Expand your opportunities. Continue becoming the teacher you aspire to be.

Because the Membership builds on the foundations taught in this Intensive, it is available exclusively to workshop graduates.

There are 2 In-Depth Knowledge Pathways you can specialize in:

• Preschool and Young Children
• Ages 8 and up, including teens and adults

You can do either or both!

Both programmes begin in September. 

Pre-Requisite is the 2 Day Foundations workshop. 

Your Instructor for these Workshops:

Mariah-Jane Thies

For nearly 40 years, Mariah-Jane Thies has dedicated her career to helping dancers and dance teachers unlock their full potential—not by asking them to work harder, but by helping them work with the brilliance of the human body.

An award-winning dance educator, international presenter, and creator of The Radiant Dance Teacher, Mariah-Jane is known for translating complex movement science into practical, joyful strategies that teachers can use immediately in the studio.

Throughout her career, one question has guided her work:

Why do some students thrive while others continue to struggle, despite excellent teaching and genuine effort?

That question led her far beyond traditional dance training and into decades of study in developmental movement, somatics, dance science, kinesiology, reflex integration, Brain Gym®, and Body-Mind Centering®. Rather than treating these disciplines as separate bodies of knowledge, Mariah-Jane has spent more than 25 years weaving them together into an approach designed specifically for dancers.

Her teaching has been shaped through extensive study with internationally respected pioneers, including Bill Evans, Anne Green Gilbert, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Peggy Hackney, and Carol Ann Erickson. She has presented her work at conferences around the world, including IADMS, the Royal Academy of Dance, NDEO, Healthy Dancer Canada, the International Somatics Conference, and many others. In 2024, she was honoured with the Royal Academy of Dance Innovation in Dance Teacher Award in recognition of her unique contribution to dance education.

But perhaps what teachers value most is Mariah-Jane's ability to bridge science with artistry.

Her workshops are known for being practical, engaging, and immediately applicable. Teachers leave not only understanding why something works, but with the confidence to bring it into their very next class.

The Radiant Spark Dance is the culmination of decades of teaching, continual learning, and thousands of hours spent observing what truly helps dancers become more coordinated, more expressive, more confident, and more ready to learn.

Mariah-Jane believes every dancer deserves teaching that honours both the intelligence of the body and the joy of movement—and every teacher deserves practical tools that make that possible.

www.radiantdancer.com