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Enhancing the Body Brain Connection
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Our Price: $19.95
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When your thoughts, emotions and actions are in alignment, miracles happen! This ebook will teach you the steps to create the life you desire by changing your mindset — which directly influences your emotions and actions. Creating optimal performance is important in the classroom, on stage, and in everyday life. There is science behind optimizing the body/brain connection. You will learn how to focus your thoughts and the power of mental rehearsals. The wisdom of soft strength and using ideokinesis to improve flexibility without stretching, and much, much more.
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Train Your Brain - A Teen's Guide to Well Being
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Our Price: $11.95
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This book is designed for teens and pre-teens as a way to begin the dialogue about self-sabotaging beliefs and thoughts that so influence our student's patterns of behavior and success. This 48 page book introduces eight teens with common problems and challenges such as how to take charge of your feelings and how to perform like a pro in the dance studio or anywhere and everywhere. They will learn techniques such as Mental Rehearsing, Creating a Feeling, Refocusing and a very powerful Acting as If. These fun activities will help to train your brain — whether a teen or an adult — towards success.
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Analyzing Arabesque
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Our Price: $45.00
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Arabesque is one of the most beautiful movements in dance, epitomizing the grace, beauty and strength of a dancer. This DVD will help you improve your eye for analyzing the pieces and parts of arabesque and give useful suggestions for stretches and strengtheners to correct muscular imbalances that may be holding you back from a more optimal arabesque. In this DVD you will learn a 'miracle stretch' to lift the arabesque leg, and what true hip extension is. Learn how to eccentrically train the abdominals for support and improve the range of motion through the power of the body/brain connection.
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Dancing Smart - Tips to Improve Your Technique and Enhance Your Performance
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Our Price: $9.95
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This Dancing Smart ebook is a compilation of questions that dancers and teachers have sent into the Dancing Smart Newsletter over the years. The questions are organized by body part and can be quickly and easily accessed from links in the table of contents. This is an invaluable resource to have on your computer desktop. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed in your computer to open these files.
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Tune Up Your Turn Out
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Our Price: $14.95
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Traditional teaching of turnout often fails to account for anatomical differences in dancer's bodies. Don't waste time wading through anatomy books that aren't focused on dance, or dance books that aren't focused on turnout. Nowhere else will you find such easy-to-use information specifically designed to help you achieve the best turnout possible while avoiding injury. Packed with scientifically accurate feedback and common-sense advice, Tune up Your Turnout is the definitive guide to getting the best turnout with the least frustration.
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Turnout DVD
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Our Price: $45.00
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Finally, a DVD on turnout that helps to separate fact from fiction. You will learn where turnout actually occurs in the body and determine important structural considerations. You'll learn how to test for true, functional turnout...and it's not lying in the frog position! Deborah will identify alignment issues such as tibial torsion, hyperextension, and tight hip flexors that interfere with efficient and effective turnout using both an anatomical model and real dancers. You will discover how to increase range of motion at the hip through simple stretches and strengtheners that balance the necessary muscles without compromising the body. Finally, you will learn how to stabilize turnout in the standing position, increasing your ability to become a strong, dynamic, and graceful dancer...without injuring yourself.
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The Standing Leg DVD
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Our Price: $45.00
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In this indispensible DVD, Deborah explores problems dancers have stabilizing the standing leg so that the working leg can move freely and fully.
Three major problems are covered in this DVD:
Keeping the pelvis upright while shifting to one leg while the working leg goes back to tendu or arabesque;
Keeping the pelvis from rotating inward as you work the gesture leg;
Inability of the abdominals to stabilize the pelvis/torso while the legs and arms are gesturing
Deborah works with student dancers in this dvd, and shows you how to increase your ability to identify, evaluate, and correct these common problems. Learn the "miracle stretch" which will increase the height of your arabesque. Learn abdominal exercises (not crunches) which actively train you to stabilize your pelvis in the upright position. In the end, you will gain a deeper understanding of the important anatomical factors which will allow you to move and balance more effortlessly and gracefully on the standing leg.
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Ballwork - Releasing Muscular Tension DVD
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Our Price: $45.00
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This do along DVD will show you practical, easy to follow instructions on how to reduce muscular strain, increase flexibility, and develop greater ease with range of movement. Working slowly and carefully with one or two rubber balls pressing against various parts of your body, you will discover areas of tension or tightness that you can release or relax. These techniques can be used by any level of dancer at any age. Whether you work on your whole body, or do spot releasing (lying on the floor with both balls under the rotators will open the hips for maximum turnout) before class, these techniques are sure to give you more flexible and adaptable muscles which will translate into more fluid and graceful dance movements.
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