DANCE WITH THIS BOOK: Start a Revolution with Your Body, Alone in Your Room.

Reading this book (and if you’re brave, following its prompts), is a powerful way to get out of your head, which is how we really begin disrupting the critical thought patterns holding us hostage. You know what I mean about being held

like dancing and what doesn’t. In other words, don’t forget about the power of solo dance breaks once you start making more dance friends. Here’s why - Dancing alone keeps us honest. It gives us space to explore movements we might feel weird about in public. It gives us space to feel like a total rockstar regardless of what others may see. It gives

truly a radical move to stop-stop-stop.

Here’s your prompt for this chapter: Dance It “Wrong” Find a video online of a dance you love but don’t know how to do. Dance along with that video with the intention of dancing it wrong. See what it feels like to let loose and do it totally off kilter – but on in your own way! Don’t know what video to choose? Pick a random one on YouTube. And ther

If you catch yourself in a pattern that feels familiar and that you know is not getting you where you need to go, practice being kind to yourself. Instead of resisting what’s happening, try dancing with it. Rather than pushing yourself forward into something new, be with the experience you’re having right now. Be with it in movement. Dance out the

To that end, I’m granting myself permission: permission to “mess up,” to be wild, to be myself. I promise this book will be more fun for you to read that way. (And I know I’ll get a lot more out of it, too.) In giving ourselves permission to

Take a moment to chat with the teacher or facilitator beforehand if you can, and let them know you’re feeling shy/intimidated/weird/scared and that there’s a chance you might want to bow out early. Sometimes simply acknowledging your fear is enough to let it pass and free up your mind so that your body can just dance.

When feelings aren’t released or allowed to move through us in the form of creativity or emotional expression, they stay stuck to us and in us, weighing us down, stifling our energy, and preventing us from living as our biggest selves.

You know why? Because there’s a dance studio in your room right now. In your aloneness there is a dance studio.