After a long day walking around on your feet, you may notice some fatigue or even swollen ankles. Some runners and other physical practitioners have told me they have been diagnosed, by their doctors, with plantar faciitis. As I tell my dancers, "anything iitis means inflamed". So Plantar, meaning the bottom part of your foot, fascia, meaning the connective tissue, is iitis or inflamed and can become a terrible discomfort to say the least. I will be offering, in this part, so

As a dancer I have been very lucky and privileged to experience many different body therapy modalities. In college I was training to be a Gyrotonic® trainer. Due to a very complicated reason, I left and never completed my level-2 training, but I knew in my heart it wasn’t my path. At a very early age I wanted to try yoga, but due to its close relation to Hinduism, my family never fed the fire of yoga. Yet I got to experience yoga and Pilates in dance camps, and I didn’t like

My dance bag has changed since I was in a ballet company to the life as a teacher and freelancer, but not by much. As a dancer or a physical person one should be prepared for anything, the realities of life will not give you what you need; you have to find a way of fixing those issues. Dancers get bruises, blisters, ingrown toes nails, tight to pulled muscles and everything beyond and in between. So here is what a dancer should carry in there dance bag to be prepared for anyt