To the Pointe:

Beyond Exercises

Before purchasing the full 16 week course, you are most welcome to check out a handful of exercises to be able to understand what the course will be like for you.  You can see the various lesson types you can expect as well as see if I am the right teacher for you. 

Creating Effective Imagery

A great place to start your journey on understanding HOW to create effective imagery on your own and with co-creation.  By focusing on Turn-Out and Posture you will have some skills right away in 2 of the most important and complicated areas to teach. 

To the Pointe: Beyond Exercises

A unique and truly comprehensive 16 week online course.  The content is designed to ensure the development of a student's ability to safely grow the full array of skills, necessary to prepare themselves for upcoming pointe work. 

Examples of learning that is Beyond Exercises:  Self Assessment and Developing Noticing Skills, Anatomy, Brain Integration and Reflexes, Practice Skills and in/out of studio Activities. 

The Missing Link in Dance Training: Brain Integration

Without Brain Integration, your dancers will not be in their best state to learn and retain, and even to gain strength.

This full course will give you the understanding and strategies for what brain integration is, why it is important and how to get your students there to start class or at any point during class when you see it is necessary. 

To the Pointe: Beyond Exercises

This course is the same as the Student Course  with additional lessons and resources specific for teachers.  Take to support students on the programme or to develop your own skills and tools to use in studio during your classes. 

Recital Readiness Secrets

A well polished and well rehearsed dance is not where preparation ends.  For the dancers to perform their best on stage, students need to have ongoing strategies for managing nerves and stress and to be embodied and focused while backstage.

Autumn & Halloween Pedagogy and Imagery Mini-Course

A great follow up to the Intro to Imagery course, as the skills to use concepts to build imagery is shared. Autumn is full of wonderful opportunities for imagery based on the seasonal changes and developing many concepts.

If you celebrate Halloween, there are a great many images available, especially linked to developing skills regarding concepts such as the difference between light and strong weight.

Winter & Christmas Pedagogy and Imagery Mini-Course

An additional follow up course to the Intro to imagery course, many pedagogical ideas are deeply explored.  The winter weather elements, in particular snow, is a wonderful metaphor for teaching students a lot of various mental skills in dance.  

If you celebrate Christmas, the images abound from the concept of presents and family, to all the famous characters involved with Christmas from Santa to his elves and Rudolph.

To the Pointe: Beyond Exercises

A unique programme that is designed to bring a supplemental class into your studio offerings.  Studio owners have the opportunity to draw in additional income, while supporting students to develop skills that will support all dance genres.  Teachers will also feel supported in their CPD requirements. 

Recital Readiness Secrets

The end of year recital/concert is not just the culmination of all the hard work of teachers and students, but it is the most important marketing tool to encourage families to return.  It is essential that the ENTIRE recital process goes well and has students and parents happy and wishing to return to repeat. 

Return to Radiance

Is burn-out as a dance teacher inevitable?   It sometimes seems like it is, with each season ending with a need to recharge over the break before doing it all over again.

This 2 hour workshop, provides you numerous ideas and strategies to operate differently in the season so that you can be avoid the common causes of burn-out.

The Missing Link: Brain Integration

This workshop will introduce you to ideas that are new to the dance world.  While working on strength, flexibility and coordination are considered the pillars of good training, once you watch this video, you will realize that all of that only matters if students are in a state ready to learn and gain strength via brain integration.

Intro to Reflexes: Focus on Feet

The information about the effect of retained primitive reflexes is new to the dance world.  Once you learn this information you cannot see the challenges in dancers the same way ever again and will begin to assess the learning state.

The last portion of the workshop is dedicated to the movements you can do to help to trigger and integrate the reflex that lifts the arches of the feet in students with flat feet and high arches. 

Effective Use of Language Teaching 

This workshop was presented at the RAD (Royal Academy of Dance) online conference in 2022.  While most teachers are no longer teaching online, the development of language skills to effectively communicate sensing and noticing skills for students is still highly relevant.  With less reliance on demonstration or hands on, language becomes even more important and by improving these skills teachers will be giving greater autonomy to students.