Welcome Message from

Mariah-Jane Thies

Director of The Radiant Dancer & The Radiant Dance Teacher

What is the Difference between Student A and Student B?

What do YOU See?

BOTH Received the Same Training

Good Technique Training

Kind and Compassionate Teachers

Encouragement and Motivation

Opportunities to Perform

Extras: Like PBT and Mental Skills Training

So What Is the Difference?

NOT Talent

NOT Commitment or Motivation

NOT Intelligence

NOT More Supportive Parents

The TRUTH:

Students who appear Talented, simply enjoy none or fewer blocks to their brilliance.

It is very interesting to note, that this is a photo on Canva, that I was able to pick to create this slide of a comparison.   I did not have to combine two different images...it was right there on a photo submitted for use as an example of dancers.

If YOU had the eye to spot the differences immediately AND KNOW that if these were your students, you gave the same attention and good training to both dancers. 

With that as the context, it is easy to simply say Dancer A is more talented than B, and Dancer B needs to work harder even though she is clearly younger.   

What I see thru the lenses of

The Radiant Dancer

I start with the question:

Is this Dancer ABLE to be: Integrated, Embodied and Expressive

What are the Common Blocks in Dancers?

Lack of Brain Integration:

Result: Stress will affect the dancer causing loss of skills and challenges with learning and performance

Incomplete Developmental Movement Patterns:

Result: Compensations and tension in the body and incomplete or inefficient kinetic chains

Retained Reflexes and Lack of Postural Reflexes

Result:  Inability to develop strength and lots of compensatory tensions and reflexive actions that interfere with planned movements

Lack of Clarity or Misunderstandings of Functional Anatomy

Result:  A feeling of fighting the body and believing that the solution is more strength and flexibility

Lingering Injury Trauma in the Nervous System

Result: Return of a reflex and protective blocks in the sensing and the kinetic chains

Limiting Belief Systems

Result: Self sabotage and lowered self esteem and motivation

The Radiant Dancer View Leads to:  

Uncommon Answers to Common Questions

Uncommon Solutions to Common Challenges

Instead of seeing Poor Core Strength

ASK: "Are the Postural Reflexes on, or blocked thru a Retained Primitive Reflex?"

Instead of Seeing Lack of Turn-Out

ASK: "Is this dancer in the space enough to be grounded and able to reach the leg with turn-out or are they not able to be grounded due to an un-integrated brain?"

Instead of seeing the Weight Too Far Back

ASK: "Is there a lingering ankle or knee injury that is being protected either consciously or unconsciously?"

It is Time to Remove Blocks

Instead of Layering more Skills, Strategies and Stress

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