This workshop is for regular, everyday dancers who have non-dance jobs, families, and occasionally eat doughnuts before heading to dance class. We will learn ways to build strength, stamina, and flexibility as well as improve technique through Bellydance drills that can be incorporated into your busy schedule. If you are an ATS ®dancer, the drills will also help even out strength differences between the muscles on your right (ATS ® dominant) and left side. Lisa will also teach science-based strategies for maintaining motivation, sustaining habits and using “cues” in in your everyday routine to help these new strategies become second nature.

Your Instructor

Course Curriculum

Drills and Doughnuts
Why Drills and Doughnuts

Introduction

Goals for this Workshop

Why is it Difficult to Change Behavior?

Two Ways to Change Behavior: The old way and the new way

The Old Way

The New Way

How to Cultivate Gratitude, Compassion and Pride

Gratitude

Compassion

Pride

Other Benefits

Wrapping Up Social Emotions Engaged to Motivate Long Term Change

Habits: Short-term Strategies

Implementation Intentions

Temptation Bundling

Make New Habits More Attractive

Minimum Viable Effort… Make it EASY

The Cardinal Rule of Behavior Change

Troupes

How Can We Apply This Information to Troupes

Drills Throughout the Day

10 Minute Shimmy Drill

Facial Expression

Shoulders and Upper Back

Wrists

Stomach and Hips

Hips and Glutes

Knees and Feet

Reverse ATS (R) Moves

Stretching

Wrap-Up

Summary

To Keep Learning

References