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I was in a rut as a dance teacher. It had been a year or two since I’d been to New York to soak up the latest moves and even those trips were getting to be too predictable. I always took class with the same favorite teachers at the same favorite studio… I even ate at the same favorite restaurants while I was there! I wanted to learn something new that I could offer my students. I was craving growth of some sort.

A couple of dancers in my Pilates class mentioned the Feldenkrais Method® as something valuable for dancers so I went home and Googled “dance” and “Feldenkrais.” I came across “Intelligent, Injury-Free Dance Intensive”, a six-day workshop focused on injury prevention for dancers, dance teachers and health professionals working with dancers. It was only a month away, so at first I dismissed it as impossible to swing that year. It just seemed like too much to wrap my head around—the expense, the logistics, not to mention the fact that I was trying to get pregnant and that requires that I at least be in the same state as my husband. But I kept chewing on it, and started to ask myself “why not?” I called to see if there was still room in the workshop and found out there was. I talked to my husband and he agreed to come along and make a vacation out of it and I discovered I could apply for a travel grant from my local arts council to defray some of the cost. Four weeks later I was in a big beautiful studio in Taos, New Mexico.
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