Dancing Our Demons Away

This Weekend is going to be about feeling good about our dancing. According to Wayne Dyer “When we dance our purpose isn’t to get to a certain spot on the floor, its to enjoy every step along the way!” This is a concept that is often over looked by dancers and instructors alike but it doesn’t have to be. When I made up my mind to become a better dancer through the study of my body, music, and teaching I suffered from a similar disease to an alcoholic who just gave up drinking…Everyone around me had a serious problem…No one knew what they were doing! 

Not that I am all that mature at all, but as I am maturing in this dance I am realizing that we all dance for different reasons. We are all on this journey for a release from what ever our demons are and dance gives it to us. Along the way if we can pick up a tip or two its a bonus. 

There have been many times after a lesson that a student has come up to me to tell me how much the lesson meant to them. So many times its been the student that seemed to have gotten worse during the lesson, not better…Some teacher I am, I remove dancing from my students instead of adding it! Enough about me…back to my student…The lesson meant so much because they got a break from of all the bullshit they have going on in their life (cancer, troubled teen at home, loss of a loved one, an overly critical significant other…). Here I am thinking that I am offering my students this wealth of knowledge that I have collected over the years and the whole experience has NOTHING to do with me at all! 

 Dance by itself has the power to heal a broken heart, mend fences between rivals, and offer its user a mini vacation from the bullshit that plagues us all. I wish that I could type that my class has all the answers but there is a power greater than my ability to explain a tuck turn and its what calls us to the dance floor every week.

Dance on!