#kate kneeland

[gameofthunder66]

-watched 3/12/2023- 2 [1/4] stars- on HBO max

Hailee Steinfeld as Megan Walsh in Barely Lethal (2015) dir. Kyle Newman

[ruleof3bobby]

THE FOUNDER (2016) Grade: B

Not sure why this wasn't talked about more. It's a overall good film. Good story & acting. The plot is almost hard to believe. It builds up tension good even though it’s based off a true story. Recommended.

[scenesandscreens]

The Founder (2016) Director - John Lee Hancock, Cinematography - John Schwartzman "Nothing in this world can take the place of good old persistence. Talent won't. Nothing's more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius won't. Unrecognised genius is practically a cliche. Education won't. Why the world is full of educated fools. Persistence and determination alone are all powerful."

[artisticlegshake]

TDA LV PREDICTIONS

TOP 20ish

SENIOR FEMALE

Ava La France

Cayla Bennish

Kiarra Waidelich

Brooke Judge

Lainey Myers

Gianna Garwacki

Cambry Bethke

Sophia Seymour

Mercedes Lorentz

Michelle Cheng

Adare Haas

Brianna Keingatti

Hailey Meyers

Kate Happe

Emma Hellenkamp

Ava Wagner

Courtney Chiu

Kennedy Barry

Bella Mills

Jesse Detroy

TEEN FEMALE

Laci Bloss

Mia Ibach

Addison Middleton

Kaitlyn Tom

Emily Haas

Ellie Duffin

Mariandrea Villegas

Claire Monge

Madison Ronquillo

Addison Leitch

Josie Lutz

Shaunaughsey Meagher

Izzy Howard

Sabine Nehls

Sierra Drayton

Tatiana Hagee

Emma Donnelly

Avery Hall

Isabella Jarvis

Ali Ogle

Sadie Grace Bethke

Maliah Howard

Ava Lynn

Brielle McCoy

Cami Redpath

Carly Thinfen

Alita Kneeland

Keira Redpath

JUNIOR FEMALE

Daphnie Brain

Fiona Wu

Siena Paradaeu

Fiona Sartain

Tiara Sherman

Vivienne Robillard

Alexis Mayer

Riley Zeitler

Glee Dang

Malaya DiMonte

Claire Avonne Kingston

Sydney Kelly

Campbell Castner

Alexis Alvarez

Kortlynn Rosenbaugh

Madison Machado

Savannah Manzel

Taylor Morrison

Keelyn Jones

Lilly Allen

MINI FEMALE

Harper Schwalb

Kendyl Miller

Elsie Sandall

Isabella Piedrehita

Emily Polis

Roxie Onellion

Lilly Anderson

Harper Anderson

Aria Du

Finley Ashfield

Annabella Atkinson

Bella Charnstrom

Addison Price

Lucia Piedrahita

Kate Monge

Karyna Majeroni

Ellary Day Szyndlar

Piper Perusse

SENIOR MALE

Easton Magliarditi

Tristan Ianiero

Holden Kunowski

Moses Rankine

TEEN MALE

Patricio Lopez

Issac Diaz

William Huguet

Drew Rosen

Tristan Gerzon

Skai Llorente

Angelo Durante

Luke Barrett

Madden Zook

Isaiah Villegas

Hudson Pletcher

Males are hard cause they are either all so good or I just don’t know too many of them. No idea for Mini or Junior males cause I know so few of them!

[coolhandlook]

2017:79 — The Founder

(2016 - John Lee Hancock) ***

[berkreviews]

Movie Review: The Founder (2016)

Movie Review: The Founder (2016)

The Founder is another biopic by directed John Lee Hancock, who also directed “The Blind Side” and “Saving Mr. Banks”. This time the focus is on Ray Kroc, the founder of the McDonald’s Corporation, and how McDonald’s was able to grow so fast. It’s a very compelling story with great acting by all involved. The Founder is a compelling story portrayed greatly by Michael Keaton Kroc (Michael Keaton)…

[lifeisacinemahall]

‘The Founder’ review: One Stake, Well Done

‘The Founder’ review: One Stake, Well Done

“What we expect from you is honesty, integrity, and team work, making sure you don’t do anything wrong or violate this company’s values,” said he, munching insistently and intently on his paan masala, his brown-stained teeth a messy giveaway of the years of masticated drumming they’d been subjected to. He being the manager in the first firm that I ever worked in and for. Over the years, as I…

[magofernando]

El Fundador

Año: 2016 País: EE.UU. Dirección: John Lee Hancock Intérpretes: Michael Keaton, Laura Dern, Linda Cardellini, Patrick Wilson, John Carroll Lynch, Nick Offerman, B.J. Novak, Steve Coulter, Catherine Dyer, Kimberly Battista, Justin Randell Brooke, Kate Kneeland Guión: Robert D. Siegel Música: Carter Burwell Fotografía: John Schwartzman Distribuye en cine: Diamond Films Distribuye en DVD: Diamond…

[albertcaldwellne]

{#TransparentTuesday} Why do you move your body?

Last weekend I attended an all women’s MovNat certification workshop. I met a bunch of amazing women, and had a bunch of fascinating conversations. What’s on my mind today is the result of some of those conversations, with a special shout-out to Jen Sinkler, who is truly as smart and funny in real life as you would guess from social media.

What is the purpose of physical movement?

According to mainstream women’s fitness culture, the purpose of movement is basically toburn calories, burn fat, lose weight, fix your flaws, get smaller, be more attractive, take up less space, be deserving of love and belonging, and earn your worth.

Obviously, I’m not down with any of that. Like, at ALL.

That’s why I liked MovNat’s counter-culture philosophy. For them, the purpose of movement is to honor and strengthen the body you were born in, the way we were designed to. It’s a step in the right direction at least, since it rejects all the mainstream physique BS.

This weekend got me thinking about how there are so many different subsections of the fitness/movement industries, and how each one has a unique philosophy about why we should move that way. Each one assigns a unique purpose to physical movement.

Let’s look at a few examples.

Most of the fitness industry is designed to teach people how to manage and improve their weight, their health, and their aesthetics. Some will use terms like “elongate,” while others use terms like “shred,” but it’s more or less the same philosophy: Move your body to improve your weight, health, and physique.

Of course there are some niches who focus mainly on improving performance (strength, endurance, speed, mobility, or agility). These include crossfit, powerlifting, triathlon training, gymnastics, golf, and pretty much every other sport ever. The philosophy behind performance-focused training is something like: Move your body to perform, or Move your body to win.

In my coaching circles, movement is often designed to “empower” women, and make them feel confident. How this works and what this means is usually pretty vague and enigmatic though. I hear explanations ranging from being more confident because you look good (back to aesthetics), to being more confident because you’re strong enough to accomplish a certain task or protect yourself (performing/winning), to being more confident because you learned that with hard work, you can accomplish things you never would have imagined (promoting a growth mindset). Either way, there is an undeniable thread of movement philosophy that says: Move your body to build confidence.

Some segments of the movement world focus on mobility and safety, from MovNat to Ido Portal to Kelly Starret. These are built around the idea that learning how to move properly can help you offset cultural movement deficits, age well, and optimize your life without getting hurt. My dear friends Hunter Cook and Kate Galliett of Fit For Real Life both populate this camp, and the boiled-down philosophy is something like: Move your body to stay safe and enjoy an active life.

Of course, some people include movement in their life purely for pleasure, joy, and play. Children, for example, tend to live by the philosophy: Move your body to have fun.

Now I want to talk about my own personal philosophy.

For me, the main purpose of physical movement is an overlooked and underused effect: embodiment.

Due to the culture we live in, most women have experienced feeling utterly disempowered in their bodies. Clueless, lost, broken, wrong.

I know I have. Growing up, I was actually considered the clumsiest, klutziest, least athletic person anyone knew. I ran into things, dropped things, and comically misestimated distances and directions. On top of that, I had experienced the dissociation effect of childhood trauma, so there were certain things I simply couldn’t feel in my body— sensations I was utterly numb to, both physically and emotionally.

As a teenager, I was totally out of touch with my body. Disconnected. Removed. It was almost as though my body had nothing to do with me.

When I started learning how to dance at 18 years old, I started to tune into muscles sensations in my body for the very first time. This simple mind-muscle connection was the beginning of my brain being able to “hear” and gather information from my body in a way that I had literally never been able to do before.

Later on, through lifting weights, I would improve and increase this skill, learning how to activate some very difficult-to-connect-to muscles like my deep core, glutes, and scapula muscles. I also learned how to feel where my body was in space, by connecting for the first time with proprioceptive feedback (the mechanism designed to inform you about your body’s relationship to space and your environment).

Looking back, I believe dance saved my life. I entered that dance program without even realizing I was in danger, flooded with darkness, anger, and shame. I felt paralyzed and numb; I was afraid all the time, but didn’t know what I was afraid of.

Moving my body, re-connecting to the sensations of my skin and muscles, and learning how to “hear” my body again, started me down the path of healing I needed.

The information I gained from my body would guide every single step of my healing. When I recognize that some areas of my body felt different than others (some felt frozen, and some felt alive, for example) I used this information to do deep work on the parts that needed care.

When I discovered that my emotions changed the sensations in my body, I learned how to differentiate between the nuances of sadness and anger, anger and fear, fear and disgust. This information was like finding my soul’s User Manual. While I haven’t been short on struggle since then, I’ve literally never doubted myself since. (PS if you’re interested in learning how to tap into your own personal user manual, I did create a 10 week digital course called Make Friends With Your Feelings to teach you how.)

The cool thing about movement for me, was that I learned to tune into my body, I began to trust myself and my environment. Being able to sense people, distinguish between my nuanced emotions, and access the sensations inside my own body that say YES and NO allowed me, for the very first time, to feel safe in my body and in the world.

This feeling of being fully in touch with your body is what I call embodiment, and it’s my philosophy on the purpose of movement: Move your body to feel your body, or:

Move your body to reclaim access to your body’s infinite wisdom.

All of these different purposes for movement are valid, and all of them are great. Most people probably draw upon several different reasons for moving their bodies, and subscribe to several of these philosophies, in different ratios. For example, right now I’m all about embodiment, but I still love to move for fun and pleasure, and someday I look forward to training for performance again.

What about you? What’s your philosophy? What drives you to move your body? <3

Jessi

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[johnclapperne]

{#TransparentTuesday} Why do you move your body?

Last weekend I attended an all women’s MovNat certification workshop. I met a bunch of amazing women, and had a bunch of fascinating conversations. What’s on my mind today is the result of some of those conversations, with a special shout-out to Jen Sinkler, who is truly as smart and funny in real life as you would guess from social media.

What is the purpose of physical movement?

According to mainstream women’s fitness culture, the purpose of movement is basically toburn calories, burn fat, lose weight, fix your flaws, get smaller, be more attractive, take up less space, be deserving of love and belonging, and earn your worth.

Obviously, I’m not down with any of that. Like, at ALL.

That’s why I liked MovNat’s counter-culture philosophy. For them, the purpose of movement is to honor and strengthen the body you were born in, the way we were designed to. It’s a step in the right direction at least, since it rejects all the mainstream physique BS.

This weekend got me thinking about how there are so many different subsections of the fitness/movement industries, and how each one has a unique philosophy about why we should move that way. Each one assigns a unique purpose to physical movement.

Let’s look at a few examples.

Most of the fitness industry is designed to teach people how to manage and improve their weight, their health, and their aesthetics. Some will use terms like “elongate,” while others use terms like “shred,” but it’s more or less the same philosophy: Move your body to improve your weight, health, and physique.

Of course there are some niches who focus mainly on improving performance (strength, endurance, speed, mobility, or agility). These include crossfit, powerlifting, triathlon training, gymnastics, golf, and pretty much every other sport ever. The philosophy behind performance-focused training is something like: Move your body to perform, or Move your body to win.

In my coaching circles, movement is often designed to “empower” women, and make them feel confident. How this works and what this means is usually pretty vague and enigmatic though. I hear explanations ranging from being more confident because you look good (back to aesthetics), to being more confident because you’re strong enough to accomplish a certain task or protect yourself (performing/winning), to being more confident because you learned that with hard work, you can accomplish things you never would have imagined (promoting a growth mindset). Either way, there is an undeniable thread of movement philosophy that says: Move your body to build confidence.

Some segments of the movement world focus on mobility and safety, from MovNat to Ido Portal to Kelly Starret. These are built around the idea that learning how to move properly can help you offset cultural movement deficits, age well, and optimize your life without getting hurt. My dear friends Hunter Cook and Kate Galliett of Fit For Real Life both populate this camp, and the boiled-down philosophy is something like: Move your body to stay safe and enjoy an active life.

Of course, some people include movement in their life purely for pleasure, joy, and play. Children, for example, tend to live by the philosophy: Move your body to have fun.

Now I want to talk about my own personal philosophy.

For me, the main purpose of physical movement is an overlooked and underused effect: embodiment.

Due to the culture we live in, most women have experienced feeling utterly disempowered in their bodies. Clueless, lost, broken, wrong.

I know I have. Growing up, I was actually considered the clumsiest, klutziest, least athletic person anyone knew. I ran into things, dropped things, and comically misestimated distances and directions. On top of that, I had experienced the dissociation effect of childhood trauma, so there were certain things I simply couldn’t feel in my body— sensations I was utterly numb to, both physically and emotionally.

As a teenager, I was totally out of touch with my body. Disconnected. Removed. It was almost as though my body had nothing to do with me.

When I started learning how to dance at 18 years old, I started to tune into muscles sensations in my body for the very first time. This simple mind-muscle connection was the beginning of my brain being able to “hear” and gather information from my body in a way that I had literally never been able to do before.

Later on, through lifting weights, I would improve and increase this skill, learning how to activate some very difficult-to-connect-to muscles like my deep core, glutes, and scapula muscles. I also learned how to feel where my body was in space, by connecting for the first time with proprioceptive feedback (the mechanism designed to inform you about your body’s relationship to space and your environment).

Looking back, I believe dance saved my life. I entered that dance program without even realizing I was in danger, flooded with darkness, anger, and shame. I felt paralyzed and numb; I was afraid all the time, but didn’t know what I was afraid of.

Moving my body, re-connecting to the sensations of my skin and muscles, and learning how to “hear” my body again, started me down the path of healing I needed.

The information I gained from my body would guide every single step of my healing. When I recognize that some areas of my body felt different than others (some felt frozen, and some felt alive, for example) I used this information to do deep work on the parts that needed care.

When I discovered that my emotions changed the sensations in my body, I learned how to differentiate between the nuances of sadness and anger, anger and fear, fear and disgust. This information was like finding my soul’s User Manual. While I haven’t been short on struggle since then, I’ve literally never doubted myself since. (PS if you’re interested in learning how to tap into your own personal user manual, I did create a 10 week digital course called Make Friends With Your Feelings to teach you how.)

The cool thing about movement for me, was that I learned to tune into my body, I began to trust myself and my environment. Being able to sense people, distinguish between my nuanced emotions, and access the sensations inside my own body that say YES and NO allowed me, for the very first time, to feel safe in my body and in the world.

This feeling of being fully in touch with your body is what I call embodiment, and it’s my philosophy on the purpose of movement: Move your body to feel your body, or:

Move your body to reclaim access to your body’s infinite wisdom.

All of these different purposes for movement are valid, and all of them are great. Most people probably draw upon several different reasons for moving their bodies, and subscribe to several of these philosophies, in different ratios. For example, right now I’m all about embodiment, but I still love to move for fun and pleasure, and someday I look forward to training for performance again.

What about you? What’s your philosophy? What drives you to move your body? <3

Jessi

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[neilmillerne]

{#TransparentTuesday} Why do you move your body?

Last weekend I attended an all women’s MovNat certification workshop. I met a bunch of amazing women, and had a bunch of fascinating conversations. What’s on my mind today is the result of some of those conversations, with a special shout-out to Jen Sinkler, who is truly as smart and funny in real life as you would guess from social media.

What is the purpose of physical movement?

According to mainstream women’s fitness culture, the purpose of movement is basically toburn calories, burn fat, lose weight, fix your flaws, get smaller, be more attractive, take up less space, be deserving of love and belonging, and earn your worth.

Obviously, I’m not down with any of that. Like, at ALL.

That’s why I liked MovNat’s counter-culture philosophy. For them, the purpose of movement is to honor and strengthen the body you were born in, the way we were designed to. It’s a step in the right direction at least, since it rejects all the mainstream physique BS.

This weekend got me thinking about how there are so many different subsections of the fitness/movement industries, and how each one has a unique philosophy about why we should move that way. Each one assigns a unique purpose to physical movement.

Let’s look at a few examples.

Most of the fitness industry is designed to teach people how to manage and improve their weight, their health, and their aesthetics. Some will use terms like “elongate,” while others use terms like “shred,” but it’s more or less the same philosophy: Move your body to improve your weight, health, and physique.

Of course there are some niches who focus mainly on improving performance (strength, endurance, speed, mobility, or agility). These include crossfit, powerlifting, triathlon training, gymnastics, golf, and pretty much every other sport ever. The philosophy behind performance-focused training is something like: Move your body to perform, or Move your body to win.

In my coaching circles, movement is often designed to “empower” women, and make them feel confident. How this works and what this means is usually pretty vague and enigmatic though. I hear explanations ranging from being more confident because you look good (back to aesthetics), to being more confident because you’re strong enough to accomplish a certain task or protect yourself (performing/winning), to being more confident because you learned that with hard work, you can accomplish things you never would have imagined (promoting a growth mindset). Either way, there is an undeniable thread of movement philosophy that says: Move your body to build confidence.

Some segments of the movement world focus on mobility and safety, from MovNat to Ido Portal to Kelly Starret. These are built around the idea that learning how to move properly can help you offset cultural movement deficits, age well, and optimize your life without getting hurt. My dear friends Hunter Cook and Kate Galliett of Fit For Real Life both populate this camp, and the boiled-down philosophy is something like: Move your body to stay safe and enjoy an active life.

Of course, some people include movement in their life purely for pleasure, joy, and play. Children, for example, tend to live by the philosophy: Move your body to have fun.

Now I want to talk about my own personal philosophy.

For me, the main purpose of physical movement is an overlooked and underused effect: embodiment.

Due to the culture we live in, most women have experienced feeling utterly disempowered in their bodies. Clueless, lost, broken, wrong.

I know I have. Growing up, I was actually considered the clumsiest, klutziest, least athletic person anyone knew. I ran into things, dropped things, and comically misestimated distances and directions. On top of that, I had experienced the dissociation effect of childhood trauma, so there were certain things I simply couldn’t feel in my body— sensations I was utterly numb to, both physically and emotionally.

As a teenager, I was totally out of touch with my body. Disconnected. Removed. It was almost as though my body had nothing to do with me.

When I started learning how to dance at 18 years old, I started to tune into muscles sensations in my body for the very first time. This simple mind-muscle connection was the beginning of my brain being able to “hear” and gather information from my body in a way that I had literally never been able to do before.

Later on, through lifting weights, I would improve and increase this skill, learning how to activate some very difficult-to-connect-to muscles like my deep core, glutes, and scapula muscles. I also learned how to feel where my body was in space, by connecting for the first time with proprioceptive feedback (the mechanism designed to inform you about your body’s relationship to space and your environment).

Looking back, I believe dance saved my life. I entered that dance program without even realizing I was in danger, flooded with darkness, anger, and shame. I felt paralyzed and numb; I was afraid all the time, but didn’t know what I was afraid of.

Moving my body, re-connecting to the sensations of my skin and muscles, and learning how to “hear” my body again, started me down the path of healing I needed.

The information I gained from my body would guide every single step of my healing. When I recognize that some areas of my body felt different than others (some felt frozen, and some felt alive, for example) I used this information to do deep work on the parts that needed care.

When I discovered that my emotions changed the sensations in my body, I learned how to differentiate between the nuances of sadness and anger, anger and fear, fear and disgust. This information was like finding my soul’s User Manual. While I haven’t been short on struggle since then, I’ve literally never doubted myself since. (PS if you’re interested in learning how to tap into your own personal user manual, I did create a 10 week digital course called Make Friends With Your Feelings to teach you how.)

The cool thing about movement for me, was that I learned to tune into my body, I began to trust myself and my environment. Being able to sense people, distinguish between my nuanced emotions, and access the sensations inside my own body that say YES and NO allowed me, for the very first time, to feel safe in my body and in the world.

This feeling of being fully in touch with your body is what I call embodiment, and it’s my philosophy on the purpose of movement: Move your body to feel your body, or:

Move your body to reclaim access to your body’s infinite wisdom.

All of these different purposes for movement are valid, and all of them are great. Most people probably draw upon several different reasons for moving their bodies, and subscribe to several of these philosophies, in different ratios. For example, right now I’m all about embodiment, but I still love to move for fun and pleasure, and someday I look forward to training for performance again.

What about you? What’s your philosophy? What drives you to move your body? <3

Jessi

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[almajonesnjna]

{#TransparentTuesday} Why do you move your body?

Last weekend I attended an all women’s MovNat certification workshop. I met a bunch of amazing women, and had a bunch of fascinating conversations. What’s on my mind today is the result of some of those conversations, with a special shout-out to Jen Sinkler, who is truly as smart and funny in real life as you would guess from social media.

What is the purpose of physical movement?

According to mainstream women’s fitness culture, the purpose of movement is basically toburn calories, burn fat, lose weight, fix your flaws, get smaller, be more attractive, take up less space, be deserving of love and belonging, and earn your worth.

Obviously, I’m not down with any of that. Like, at ALL.

That’s why I liked MovNat’s counter-culture philosophy. For them, the purpose of movement is to honor and strengthen the body you were born in, the way we were designed to. It’s a step in the right direction at least, since it rejects all the mainstream physique BS.

This weekend got me thinking about how there are so many different subsections of the fitness/movement industries, and how each one has a unique philosophy about why we should move that way. Each one assigns a unique purpose to physical movement.

Let’s look at a few examples.

Most of the fitness industry is designed to teach people how to manage and improve their weight, their health, and their aesthetics. Some will use terms like “elongate,” while others use terms like “shred,” but it’s more or less the same philosophy: Move your body to improve your weight, health, and physique.

Of course there are some niches who focus mainly on improving performance (strength, endurance, speed, mobility, or agility). These include crossfit, powerlifting, triathlon training, gymnastics, golf, and pretty much every other sport ever. The philosophy behind performance-focused training is something like: Move your body to perform, or Move your body to win.

In my coaching circles, movement is often designed to “empower” women, and make them feel confident. How this works and what this means is usually pretty vague and enigmatic though. I hear explanations ranging from being more confident because you look good (back to aesthetics), to being more confident because you’re strong enough to accomplish a certain task or protect yourself (performing/winning), to being more confident because you learned that with hard work, you can accomplish things you never would have imagined (promoting a growth mindset). Either way, there is an undeniable thread of movement philosophy that says: Move your body to build confidence.

Some segments of the movement world focus on mobility and safety, from MovNat to Ido Portal to Kelly Starret. These are built around the idea that learning how to move properly can help you offset cultural movement deficits, age well, and optimize your life without getting hurt. My dear friends Hunter Cook and Kate Galliett of Fit For Real Life both populate this camp, and the boiled-down philosophy is something like: Move your body to stay safe and enjoy an active life.

Of course, some people include movement in their life purely for pleasure, joy, and play. Children, for example, tend to live by the philosophy: Move your body to have fun.

Now I want to talk about my own personal philosophy.

For me, the main purpose of physical movement is an overlooked and underused effect: embodiment.

Due to the culture we live in, most women have experienced feeling utterly disempowered in their bodies. Clueless, lost, broken, wrong.

I know I have. Growing up, I was actually considered the clumsiest, klutziest, least athletic person anyone knew. I ran into things, dropped things, and comically misestimated distances and directions. On top of that, I had experienced the dissociation effect of childhood trauma, so there were certain things I simply couldn’t feel in my body— sensations I was utterly numb to, both physically and emotionally.

As a teenager, I was totally out of touch with my body. Disconnected. Removed. It was almost as though my body had nothing to do with me.

When I started learning how to dance at 18 years old, I started to tune into muscles sensations in my body for the very first time. This simple mind-muscle connection was the beginning of my brain being able to “hear” and gather information from my body in a way that I had literally never been able to do before.

Later on, through lifting weights, I would improve and increase this skill, learning how to activate some very difficult-to-connect-to muscles like my deep core, glutes, and scapula muscles. I also learned how to feel where my body was in space, by connecting for the first time with proprioceptive feedback (the mechanism designed to inform you about your body’s relationship to space and your environment).

Looking back, I believe dance saved my life. I entered that dance program without even realizing I was in danger, flooded with darkness, anger, and shame. I felt paralyzed and numb; I was afraid all the time, but didn’t know what I was afraid of.

Moving my body, re-connecting to the sensations of my skin and muscles, and learning how to “hear” my body again, started me down the path of healing I needed.

The information I gained from my body would guide every single step of my healing. When I recognize that some areas of my body felt different than others (some felt frozen, and some felt alive, for example) I used this information to do deep work on the parts that needed care.

When I discovered that my emotions changed the sensations in my body, I learned how to differentiate between the nuances of sadness and anger, anger and fear, fear and disgust. This information was like finding my soul’s User Manual. While I haven’t been short on struggle since then, I’ve literally never doubted myself since. (PS if you’re interested in learning how to tap into your own personal user manual, I did create a 10 week digital course called Make Friends With Your Feelings to teach you how.)

The cool thing about movement for me, was that I learned to tune into my body, I began to trust myself and my environment. Being able to sense people, distinguish between my nuanced emotions, and access the sensations inside my own body that say YES and NO allowed me, for the very first time, to feel safe in my body and in the world.

This feeling of being fully in touch with your body is what I call embodiment, and it’s my philosophy on the purpose of movement: Move your body to feel your body, or:

Move your body to reclaim access to your body’s infinite wisdom.

All of these different purposes for movement are valid, and all of them are great. Most people probably draw upon several different reasons for moving their bodies, and subscribe to several of these philosophies, in different ratios. For example, right now I’m all about embodiment, but I still love to move for fun and pleasure, and someday I look forward to training for performance again.

What about you? What’s your philosophy? What drives you to move your body? <3

Jessi

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[joshuabradleyn]

{#TransparentTuesday} Why do you move your body?

Last weekend I attended an all women’s MovNat certification workshop. I met a bunch of amazing women, and had a bunch of fascinating conversations. What’s on my mind today is the result of some of those conversations, with a special shout-out to Jen Sinkler, who is truly as smart and funny in real life as you would guess from social media.

What is the purpose of physical movement?

According to mainstream women’s fitness culture, the purpose of movement is basically toburn calories, burn fat, lose weight, fix your flaws, get smaller, be more attractive, take up less space, be deserving of love and belonging, and earn your worth.

Obviously, I’m not down with any of that. Like, at ALL.

That’s why I liked MovNat’s counter-culture philosophy. For them, the purpose of movement is to honor and strengthen the body you were born in, the way we were designed to. It’s a step in the right direction at least, since it rejects all the mainstream physique BS.

This weekend got me thinking about how there are so many different subsections of the fitness/movement industries, and how each one has a unique philosophy about why we should move that way. Each one assigns a unique purpose to physical movement.

Let’s look at a few examples.

Most of the fitness industry is designed to teach people how to manage and improve their weight, their health, and their aesthetics. Some will use terms like “elongate,” while others use terms like “shred,” but it’s more or less the same philosophy: Move your body to improve your weight, health, and physique.

Of course there are some niches who focus mainly on improving performance (strength, endurance, speed, mobility, or agility). These include crossfit, powerlifting, triathlon training, gymnastics, golf, and pretty much every other sport ever. The philosophy behind performance-focused training is something like: Move your body to perform, or Move your body to win.

In my coaching circles, movement is often designed to “empower” women, and make them feel confident. How this works and what this means is usually pretty vague and enigmatic though. I hear explanations ranging from being more confident because you look good (back to aesthetics), to being more confident because you’re strong enough to accomplish a certain task or protect yourself (performing/winning), to being more confident because you learned that with hard work, you can accomplish things you never would have imagined (promoting a growth mindset). Either way, there is an undeniable thread of movement philosophy that says: Move your body to build confidence.

Some segments of the movement world focus on mobility and safety, from MovNat to Ido Portal to Kelly Starret. These are built around the idea that learning how to move properly can help you offset cultural movement deficits, age well, and optimize your life without getting hurt. My dear friends Hunter Cook and Kate Galliett of Fit For Real Life both populate this camp, and the boiled-down philosophy is something like: Move your body to stay safe and enjoy an active life.

Of course, some people include movement in their life purely for pleasure, joy, and play. Children, for example, tend to live by the philosophy: Move your body to have fun.

Now I want to talk about my own personal philosophy.

For me, the main purpose of physical movement is an overlooked and underused effect: embodiment.

Due to the culture we live in, most women have experienced feeling utterly disempowered in their bodies. Clueless, lost, broken, wrong.

I know I have. Growing up, I was actually considered the clumsiest, klutziest, least athletic person anyone knew. I ran into things, dropped things, and comically misestimated distances and directions. On top of that, I had experienced the dissociation effect of childhood trauma, so there were certain things I simply couldn’t feel in my body— sensations I was utterly numb to, both physically and emotionally.

As a teenager, I was totally out of touch with my body. Disconnected. Removed. It was almost as though my body had nothing to do with me.

When I started learning how to dance at 18 years old, I started to tune into muscles sensations in my body for the very first time. This simple mind-muscle connection was the beginning of my brain being able to “hear” and gather information from my body in a way that I had literally never been able to do before.

Later on, through lifting weights, I would improve and increase this skill, learning how to activate some very difficult-to-connect-to muscles like my deep core, glutes, and scapula muscles. I also learned how to feel where my body was in space, by connecting for the first time with proprioceptive feedback (the mechanism designed to inform you about your body’s relationship to space and your environment).

Looking back, I believe dance saved my life. I entered that dance program without even realizing I was in danger, flooded with darkness, anger, and shame. I felt paralyzed and numb; I was afraid all the time, but didn’t know what I was afraid of.

Moving my body, re-connecting to the sensations of my skin and muscles, and learning how to “hear” my body again, started me down the path of healing I needed.

The information I gained from my body would guide every single step of my healing. When I recognize that some areas of my body felt different than others (some felt frozen, and some felt alive, for example) I used this information to do deep work on the parts that needed care.

When I discovered that my emotions changed the sensations in my body, I learned how to differentiate between the nuances of sadness and anger, anger and fear, fear and disgust. This information was like finding my soul’s User Manual. While I haven’t been short on struggle since then, I’ve literally never doubted myself since. (PS if you’re interested in learning how to tap into your own personal user manual, I did create a 10 week digital course called Make Friends With Your Feelings to teach you how.)

The cool thing about movement for me, was that I learned to tune into my body, I began to trust myself and my environment. Being able to sense people, distinguish between my nuanced emotions, and access the sensations inside my own body that say YES and NO allowed me, for the very first time, to feel safe in my body and in the world.

This feeling of being fully in touch with your body is what I call embodiment, and it’s my philosophy on the purpose of movement: Move your body to feel your body, or:

Move your body to reclaim access to your body’s infinite wisdom.

All of these different purposes for movement are valid, and all of them are great. Most people probably draw upon several different reasons for moving their bodies, and subscribe to several of these philosophies, in different ratios. For example, right now I’m all about embodiment, but I still love to move for fun and pleasure, and someday I look forward to training for performance again.

What about you? What’s your philosophy? What drives you to move your body? <3

Jessi

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Radix Dance Convention, Las Vegas, NV: RESULTS

High Scores by Age:

Rookie Solo

1st: Mila Renae-’Soldier’

1st: Melina Blitz-’The Poet Creature’

2nd: Aliya Yen-’Loyal, Brave & True’

3rd: Sebastian Mancini-’Guerrerio’

4th: Dylan Reuss-’Lost Boy’

5th: Bella Mendez-’Pump’

6th: Emma Acosta-’Lip Gloss’

7th: Lexi Yeackle-’I Will Wait’

8th: Kaiya Carrillo-’Love Shack’

8th: Rylan Farrales-’Stand In The Light’

9th: Enslee Moore-’Ooh Child’

10th: Olivia Caylor-’Queen Bee’

Mini Solo

1st: Kinley Cunningham-’Glam’

2nd: Fiona Wu-’Red Dust’

3rd: Joy Line-’Broken Dreams’

3rd: Carrigan Paylor-’Orange Colored Sky’

3rd: Karyna Majeroni-’Pistolet’

3rd: Keelyn Jones-’Slowly Fading’

3rd: Fiona Sartain-’The Way You Move’

4th: Starr Castro-’Bang Bang’

4th: Peyton Szuberla-’Glacier’

4th: Addison Price-’We Will Not Give In’

5th: Madelyn Murphy-’Desierto’

5th: Roxie Onellion-’Drifting Down’

6th: Esprit Frank-’Grains’

6th: Claire Gestring-’On The Mast of Faith’

7th: Tiara Sherman-’Cielo’

7th: Jenna Le-’Matters to Me’

7th: Cerys Cogswell-’Pure Imagination’

8th: Jacob Barrow-’Shifting’

8th: Aurora Brady-’Hit The Road Jack’

8th: Cha Cha Shen-’Here I Come’

8th: Alyssa Mastroianni-’Crippled Bird’

8th: Leah Munson-’Copy Cat’

8th: Claire Hansen-’By The Roses’

8th: Peyton Nowacki-’Angels to Fly’

9th: Annabella Atkinson-’The Dutch Girl’

9th: Eden Hawkins-’Shadow’

9th: Olive O’Connell-’Live Like Legends’

9th: Ella King-’Like A River’

9th: Tatum Brady-’Fall Creek’

9th: Oliviana Mancini-’At Peace’

10th: Leighton Brandt-’Legs’

10th: Annie Carlson-’Young’

Junior Solo

1st: Kylie Kaminsky-’The Offering’

2nd: Brooke Toro-’As The Dust Settles’

2nd: Coltrane Vodicka-’Moon River’

2nd: Alita Kneeland-’Spine

2nd: Makaia Roux-’Unbound’

3rd: Alexis Mayer-’Vivid

4th: Emmy Claire Kaiden-’Eyesore’

4th: Naia Parker-’Lit’

5th: Bella Kidder-’Feeling Good’

5th: Hope Edwards-’Gravity’

5th: Lucy Cavender-’Material Girl’

5th: Isabelle Zorrilla-’Orion’

5th: Kira Chan-’Pump’

5th: Kendyl Fay-’To Build A Home’

5th: Aaliyah Dixon-’Toxic’

6th: Mackenzie Kleveno-’Lost It To Trying’

6th: Taytum Ruckle-’Perfect Lie’

6th: Anabel Alexander-’Plans We Made’

7th: Victoria Johnson-’Genius’

7th: Aedyn Bekker-’New York State of Mind’

7th: Brianna Gorksi-’Night Sky’

8th: Kendall Jundt-’Awakening’

8th:Lexi Godwin-’Debut’

8th: Casey Cheung-’I Remember’

8th: Ava Hill-’Shallow’

9th: Izzy Wadington-’Final Solution’

9th: Jovie Leigh Ugerio-’Ring Them Bells’

10th: Madison De Dios-’On My Mind’

10th: Clare Loftus-’Restless Night’

10th: Delaney Bojorquez-’Tessellate’

Teen Solo

1st: Ashur Taylor-’Relax’

2nd: Cydney Heard-’Black Mourning’

2nd: Gianna Mojonnier-’Inside Outside’

2nd: Olivia Magni-’Moonlight Sonata’

2nd: Coco Saul-’Transportin’

3rd: Jadyn Saigusa-’Wonderlust’

3rd: Emily Madden-’Vibeology’

3rd: Calli Perryman-’Still Running’

3rd: Michelle Cheng-’Sinking’

3rd: Georgia Ehrlich-’On My Mind’

3rd: Tyler Chiyuto-’Llarona’

3rd: Blanche Arnold-’How To Be Your Own Person’

3rd: Ava Lynn-’Everything’s Alright’

3rd: Addison Middleton-’Dark Dissonance’

4th: Charlotte Cogan-’You’

4th: Hailey Meyers-’Standing Still’

4th: Isiah Bowens-’Miss You’

4th: Avery Hall-’If I Think’

4th: Luke Barrett-’Eden’

4th: Emma Donnelly-’Departure’

4th: Ava Kendall-’Always On My Mind’

5th: Zuzu Duchon-’Twelfth of Never’

5th: Angelika Edejer-’Toxic Thoughts’

5th: Riley Platenberg-’Talking Points’

5th: Annabelle Mang-’One Small Step’

5th: Sabine Nehls-’No Regrets’

5th: Ella Montano-’Lonely’

5th: Natalie Bowen-’I Think I’m Alone Now’

5th: Cade Clark-’I Can’t Move’

5th: Berlynn Gonzalez-’Hero’

5th: Courtney Chiu-’Fever’

5th: Drew Rosen-’Exhalation’

5th: Rachel Polizzotto-’Entrapment’

5th: Raven Alanes-’Confusion’

5th: Mikaella Lopez-’Blues-y’

5th: Izzy Howard-’Amen’

6th: Sophia Oppegard-’You Can’t Leave’

6th: Elle O’Donnell-’Slowly’

6th: Lily Godwin-’Ode to Divorce’

6th: Aubrie Stoehr-’Now I Cry’

6th: Sofia Mah-’Life’

6th: Mia Ibach-’Koladi Ola’

6th: Piper Rovsek-’Innate Abstraction’

6th: Sakura Amano-’I Love You’

6th: Sophia Albornoz-’Even When It Hurts’

6th: Sammi Chung-’eight’

6th: Ella Sheppard-’Do You’

6th: Ally Cheung-’Cut The World’

6th: Kate Seleno-’Curtain Call’

6th: Kayla Harrison-’Crumbling’

7th: Kennedy Blazek-’Zilla’

7th: Libby Haye-’Work Song’

7th: Katelyn Neasham-’Touch’

7th: Sebastian Hsu-Kwan-’Scat’

7th: Lauren Pond-’Satellite Heart’

7th: Aleyna Laba-’Playdoh’

7th: Linda Diaz-’Paper Moon’

7th: Maya Krajicek-’Idea for Strings’

7th: Kennie Shen-’Feeling Good’

7th: Jenna Tarry-’Down The Line’

7th: Ava Thorp-’Blue Notebook’

7th: Emma Hellenkamp-’Blackbird’

7th: Felix Fulton-’A Dream I Can’t Forget’

8th: Dempsey Foxson-’Vain’

8th: Carys Ashby-’The Empress’

8th: Angelica Keamy-’Research’

8th: Melina Gurich-’Net Works’

8th: Raina Wu-’Looking In’

8th: Alexis Olson-’Just Say That’

8th: Gabi D’Ambra-’In For the Kill’

8th: Piper Camm-’Drones’

8th: Scotlynn Potter-’Cinematic Plea for an End’

8th: Ava Saremaslani-’Canvas’

9th: Maile Cochran-’Tesselate’

9th: Jera Linkins-’Put Your Records On’

9th: Kayla Seitel-’Monster’

9th: Alexis Ahn-’Brighter Days’

9th: Brayden Owens-’Tux’

10th: Addyson Smith-’Ecdysis’

10th: Presslie Novits-’Let Me Entertain You’

10th: Siena Riga-’Naked’

10th: Mandy Boaz-’Pink’

10th: Brooklyn Piano-’Solitary’

10th: Destiny Harris-’Up’

Senior Solo

1st: Alex Shulman-’In System’

1st: Ella Horan-’Silk’

2nd: Jade Bucci-’Sacrifice’

3rd: Alexis Weldner-’Release’

3rd: Jemoni Powe-’Second Thought’

4th: Brianna Sanchez-’Stolen’

4th: Charlotte Foldes-’You Forget Everything’

5th: Izzy Burton-’Gimme’

6th: Mallory McKenna-’I’m Lonely’

6th: Julian Menendez-’Note to Self’

6th: Kennedy Barry-’The Distance Between’

7th: Makaila Teagle-’Breathe Into Me’

7th: Vanessa Valenzuela-’Poem About Death’

7th: Bailey Holt-’Rose Water’

8th: Emmy Cheung-’Nostos’

8th: Alex Andrada-’Still In Love’

9th: Nina Sawaya-’All I Wanted’

9th: Lauren Polizzotto-’Distant Echos’

9th: Reese Willis-’Godspeed’

9th: Hannah Averbuck-’Got2BReal’

9th: Savannah Laughton-’Nostalgia’

10th: Izabel Hurtado-’Film Credits’

10th: Aleialanee Ponce De Leon-’Mirrored Heart’

10th: Megan Chie-’You’

Rookie Duo/Trio

1st: Studio Fusion-’Kansas City’

1st: Danceology-’Time of My Life’

2nd: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts-’Tomorrow’

3rd: Notion Dance Concepts-’MILK $’

Mini Duo/Trio

1st: Mather Dance Company-’Respect’

2nd: Murrieta Dance Project-’Midnight Train’

3rd: Studio X-’Vogue’

3rd: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts-’We Are’

Junior Duo/Trio

1st: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts-’And So It Is’

2nd: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts-’Inception’

3rd: Danceology-’Celloopa’

3rd: Evoke Dance Movement-’Everything Is In Line’

Teen Duo/Trio

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’Make Me High’

2nd: Danceology-’Busy Signal’

3rd: Danceology-’Smile In The Rain’

Senior Duo/Trio

1st: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts-’Refuse’

2nd: Studio Kin-’The Night We Met’

3rd: Studio Kin-’Never Love Again’

Rookie Group

1st: Danceology-’Ladies Room’

2nd: Mather Dance Company-’Fabulous’

3rd: Danceology-’Kingdom’

Mini Group

1st: Mather Dance Company-’Hot Stuff’

2nd: Danceology-’Happy’

3rd: Evoke Dance Movement-’Searching For...’

Junior Group

1st: Orange County Performing Arts Academy-’Wind It Up’

2nd: Danceology-’Give Yourself In’

2nd: The Rock Center for Dance-’Over The Edge’

3rd: Orange County Performing Arts Academy-’Sing Sing Sing’

Teen Group

1st: Danceology-’Dream of Dreaming’

2nd: The Rock Center for Dance-’Heavenly Bodies’

3rd: West Coast School of the Arts-’All Coming Back’

Senior Group

1st: Mather Dance Company-’We The Soldiers’

2nd: Mather Dance Company-’For All We Know’

3rd: Studio Fusion-’Coconut’

3rd: Academy of Nevada Ballet Theatre-’Those That Follow’

Open Group

1st: Community Dance Training-’The Place You Left’

Rookie Line

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’Inanna’

2nd: The Rock Center for Dance-’Suite Tea’

3rd: Studio Kin-’SK Crew’

Mini Line

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’6 Out of Six’

2nd: Motion State Studios-’Sisters’

3rd: Danceology-’Time Passing’

Junior Line

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’All Good People’

2nd: Danceology-’Just Got Paid’

3rd: Danceology-’Backbone’

Teen Line

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’Cadance’

1st: Danceology-’My Hands Are Always Cold’

2nd: The Rock Center for Dance-’Hey!’

3rd: The Rock Center for Dance-’Dark Winter’

3rd: Studio Kin-’Hustle’

Senior Line

1st: Mather Dance Company-’Prisoner’

1st: Mather Dance Company-’Voice of God’

2nd: Danceology-’It’s Weezy’

3rd: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts-’I’m The Hero’

Mini Extended Line

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’Settle Down’

2nd: Danceology-’Ballroom Blitz’

3rd: The Rock Center for Dance-’Jump Jump!’

3rd: Danceology-’Mary Poppins’

Junior Extended Line

1st: Evoke Dance Movement-’Hold Your Own’

2nd: Evoke Dance Movement-’Better Than Ever’

3rd: Evoke Dance Movement-’Purse First’

Teen Extended Line

1st: Danceology-’Not Today Satan’

2nd: Evoke Dance Movement-’Adios’

3rd: Danceology-’Cha Cha Heels’

Senior Extended Line

1st: Danceology-’Above Below’

2nd: Danceology-’Burn Up The Dance’

3rd: Danceology-’Night Thirst’

Mini Production

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’Mambo Baby’

Junior Production

1st: Danceology-’Rich Girl’

2nd: Danceology-’Blind Faith’

3rd: Danceology-’Level Up’

High Scores by Performance Division:

Rookie Jazz

1st: Danceology-’Ladies Room’ 2nd: Mather Dance Company-’Fabulous’ 3rd: Studio Kin-’Look Out Weekend’

Rookie Ballet

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’Suite Tea’

Rookie Hip-Hop

1st: Studio Kin-’SK Crew’

Rookie Contemporary

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’Inanna’ 2nd: Danceology-’Kingdom’

Rookie Lyrical

1st: Notion Dance Concepts-’Firework’

Mini Jazz

1st: Motion State Studios-’Sisters’ 2nd: Mather Dance Company-’Hot Stuff’ 3rd: Danceology-’Ballroom Blitz’

Mini Ballet

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’The Invitation’ 2nd: Danceology-’Scarf Dance’ 3rd: Danceology-’Polinaise’

Mini Hip-Hop

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’Jump Jump!’ 2nd: Evoke Dance Movement-’Get Up’ 3rd: Studio Kin-’Pure Water’

Mini Tap

1st: Danceology-’Happy’ 2nd: Danceology-’Luck be A Lady’ 3rd: Danceology-’Word Up’

Mini Contemporary

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’6 Out of Six’ 2nd: Evoke Dance Movement-’Searching For...’ 3rd: Danceology-’Time Passing’ 3rd: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts-’Fading Images’

Mini Lyrical

1st: Mather Dance Company-’Roar’ 2nd: Elite Dance and Performing Arts Center-’Beautiful Thing’ 3rd: Studio Kin-’Lighthouse’

Mini Musical Theatre

1st: Danceology-’Mary Poppins’ 2nd: Studio Kin-’Mean & Green’

Mini Ballroom

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’Mambo Baby’ 2nd: Danceology-’Favorite Things’

Mini Specialty

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’Settle Down’ 2nd: The Rock Center for Dance-’Salient’ 3rd: Evoke Dance Movement-’I Think I Love You’

Junior Jazz

1st: Danceology-’Rich Girl’ 2nd: Evoke Dance Movement-’Purse First’ 3rd: Orange County Performing Arts Academy-’Wind It Up’

Junior Ballet

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’Over The Edge’ 2nd: Danceology-’Paquita’ 3rd: Danceology-’Passarinjo’

Junior Hip-Hop

1st: Danceology-’Level Up’ 2nd: Evoke Dance Movement-’Lose Control’

Junior Tap

1st: Danceology-’Just Got Paid’

Junior Contemporary

1st: Danceology-’Blind Faith’ 2nd: The Rock Center for Dance-’All Good People’ 3rd: Evoke Dance Movement-’Hold Your Own’

Junior Lyrical

1st: Mather Dance Company-’Anything Worth Holding’ 2nd: Mather Dance Company-’Salvation’ 3rd: Elite Dance and Performing Arts Center-’You Will Be Found’

Junior Musical Theatre

1st: Danceology-’Black Friday Fiasco’ 2nd: Elite Dance and Performing Arts Center-’Nicest Kids In Town’

Junior Specialty

1st: Evoke Dance Movement-’Better Than Ever’ 2nd: Danceology-’Backbone’ 2nd: Danceology-’Give Yourself In’ 3rd: Orange County Performing Arts Academy-’Sing Sing Sing’

Teen Jazz

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’Shadow Work’ 1st: Orange County Performing Arts Academy-’Boom Pow’ 2nd: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts-’Feeling Super Down’ 3rd: Murrieta Dance Project-’Sweet Melody’

Teen Ballet

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’Dark Winter’

Teen Hip-Hop

1st: Studio Kin-’Hustle’ 2nd: Evoke Dance Movement-’Diva’ 3rd: Studio Kin-’All That Matters’

Teen Tap

1st: Danceology-’Mr. Blue Sky’

Teen Contemporary

1st: Danceology-’My Hands Are Always Cold’ 2nd: The Rock Center for Dance-’Hey!’ 3rd: The Rock Center for Dance-’Heavenly Bodies’

Teen Lyrical

1st: West Coast School of the Arts-’All Coming Back’ 2nd: Mather Dance Company-’Overdose’ 3rd: Mather Dance Company-’Out of Hiding’

Teen Musical Theatre

1st: Danceology-’Not Today Satan’ 2nd: Evoke Dance Movement-’Singular Sensation’ 3rd: Elite Dance and Performing Arts Center-’Footloose’

Teen Ballroom

1st: Danceology-’Cha Cha Heels’ 2nd: The Rock Center for Dance-’Movimento’

Teen Specialty

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’Cadance’ 2nd: Danceology-’Dream of Dreaming’ 3rd: Danceology-’Passage’

Senior Jazz

1st: Mather Dance Company-’Prisoner’ 2nd: Danceology-’Night Thirst’ 3rd: West Coast School of the Arts-’How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?’

Senior Hip-Hop

1st: Danceology-’It’s Weezy’

Senior Contemporary

1st: Mather Dance Company-’We The Soldiers’ 2nd: Academy of Nevada Ballet Theatre-’Those That Follow’ 3rd: Danceology-’Above Below’ 3rd: Studio Fusion-’Weight of Silence’

Senior Lyrical

1st: Mather Dance Company-’Voice of God’ 2nd: Mather Dance Company-’For All We Know’

Senior Specialty

1st: Studio Fusion-’Coconut’ 2nd: Evoke Dance Movement-’Terrified’

Senior Ballroom

1st: Danceology-’Burn Up The Dance’

Best of Radix:

Rookie

The Rock Center for Dance-’Inanna’

Danceology-’Ladies Room’

Mather Dance Company-’Fabulous’

Studio Kin-’SK Crew’

Notion Dance Concepts-’Firework’

Mini

The Rock Center for Dance-’6 Out of Six’

Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts-’Fading Images’

Evoke Dance Movement-’Searching For...’

Danceology-’Happy’

Mather Dance Company-’Hot Stuff’

Motion State Studios-’Sisters’

Junior

Evoke Dance Movement-’Hold Your Own’

The Rock Center for Dance-’All Good People’

Danceology-’Rich Girl’

Orange County Performing Arts Academy-’Wind It Up’

Mather Dance Company-’Anything Worth Holding’

Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts-’Hey Hi Hello’

Motion State Studios-’Always, Forever’

 Murrieta Dance Project-’Luminous’

Teen

Academy of Nevada Ballet Theater-’The Great Realization’

Danceology-’Not Today Satan’

The Rock Center for Dance-’Hey!’

West Coast School of the Arts-’All Coming Back’

Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts-’The Need for One Another’

Studio Kin-’Hustle’

Murrieta Dance Project-’Memories’

Elite Dance and Performing Arts Center-’Change’

Mather Dance Company-’Overdose’

Orange County Performing Arts Academy-’No Ordinary Love’

Evoke Dance Movement-’Adios’

Senior

Mather Dance Company-’We The Soldiers’

Evoke Dance Movement-’Terrified’

Murrieta Dance Project-’Echos’

Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts-’I’m The Hero’

Danceology-’Above Below’

Academy of Nevada Ballet Theatre-’Those That Follow’

Studio Fusion-’Coconut’

West Coast School of the Arts-’How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?’

Studio Standout:

Studio Kin-’Hustle’

Mather Dance Company-’We The Soldiers’

Evoke Dance Movement-’Adios’

Elite Dance and Performing Arts Center-’Change’

Danceology-’Not Today Satan’

Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts-’I’m The Hero’

The Rock Center for Dance-’Hey!’

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{#TransparentTuesday} Why do you move your body?

Last weekend I attended an all women’s MovNat certification workshop. I met a bunch of amazing women, and had a bunch of fascinating conversations. What’s on my mind today is the result of some of those conversations, with a special shout-out to Jen Sinkler, who is truly as smart and funny in real life as you would guess from social media.

What is the purpose of physical movement?

According to mainstream women’s fitness culture, the purpose of movement is basically toburn calories, burn fat, lose weight, fix your flaws, get smaller, be more attractive, take up less space, be deserving of love and belonging, and earn your worth.

Obviously, I’m not down with any of that. Like, at ALL.

That’s why I liked MovNat’s counter-culture philosophy. For them, the purpose of movement is to honor and strengthen the body you were born in, the way we were designed to. It’s a step in the right direction at least, since it rejects all the mainstream physique BS.

This weekend got me thinking about how there are so many different subsections of the fitness/movement industries, and how each one has a unique philosophy about why we should move that way. Each one assigns a unique purpose to physical movement.

Let’s look at a few examples.

Most of the fitness industry is designed to teach people how to manage and improve their weight, their health, and their aesthetics. Some will use terms like “elongate,” while others use terms like “shred,” but it’s more or less the same philosophy: Move your body to improve your weight, health, and physique.

Of course there are some niches who focus mainly on improving performance (strength, endurance, speed, mobility, or agility). These include crossfit, powerlifting, triathlon training, gymnastics, golf, and pretty much every other sport ever. The philosophy behind performance-focused training is something like: Move your body to perform, or Move your body to win.

In my coaching circles, movement is often designed to “empower” women, and make them feel confident. How this works and what this means is usually pretty vague and enigmatic though. I hear explanations ranging from being more confident because you look good (back to aesthetics), to being more confident because you’re strong enough to accomplish a certain task or protect yourself (performing/winning), to being more confident because you learned that with hard work, you can accomplish things you never would have imagined (promoting a growth mindset). Either way, there is an undeniable thread of movement philosophy that says: Move your body to build confidence.

Some segments of the movement world focus on mobility and safety, from MovNat to Ido Portal to Kelly Starret. These are built around the idea that learning how to move properly can help you offset cultural movement deficits, age well, and optimize your life without getting hurt. My dear friends Hunter Cook and Kate Galliett of Fit For Real Life both populate this camp, and the boiled-down philosophy is something like: Move your body to stay safe and enjoy an active life.

Of course, some people include movement in their life purely for pleasure, joy, and play. Children, for example, tend to live by the philosophy: Move your body to have fun.

Now I want to talk about my own personal philosophy.

For me, the main purpose of physical movement is an overlooked and underused effect: embodiment.

Due to the culture we live in, most women have experienced feeling utterly disempowered in their bodies. Clueless, lost, broken, wrong.

I know I have. Growing up, I was actually considered the clumsiest, klutziest, least athletic person anyone knew. I ran into things, dropped things, and comically misestimated distances and directions. On top of that, I had experienced the dissociation effect of childhood trauma, so there were certain things I simply couldn’t feel in my body— sensations I was utterly numb to, both physically and emotionally.

As a teenager, I was totally out of touch with my body. Disconnected. Removed. It was almost as though my body had nothing to do with me.

When I started learning how to dance at 18 years old, I started to tune into muscles sensations in my body for the very first time. This simple mind-muscle connection was the beginning of my brain being able to “hear” and gather information from my body in a way that I had literally never been able to do before.

Later on, through lifting weights, I would improve and increase this skill, learning how to activate some very difficult-to-connect-to muscles like my deep core, glutes, and scapula muscles. I also learned how to feel where my body was in space, by connecting for the first time with proprioceptive feedback (the mechanism designed to inform you about your body’s relationship to space and your environment).

Looking back, I believe dance saved my life. I entered that dance program without even realizing I was in danger, flooded with darkness, anger, and shame. I felt paralyzed and numb; I was afraid all the time, but didn’t know what I was afraid of.

Moving my body, re-connecting to the sensations of my skin and muscles, and learning how to “hear” my body again, started me down the path of healing I needed.

The information I gained from my body would guide every single step of my healing. When I recognize that some areas of my body felt different than others (some felt frozen, and some felt alive, for example) I used this information to do deep work on the parts that needed care.

When I discovered that my emotions changed the sensations in my body, I learned how to differentiate between the nuances of sadness and anger, anger and fear, fear and disgust. This information was like finding my soul’s User Manual. While I haven’t been short on struggle since then, I’ve literally never doubted myself since. (PS if you’re interested in learning how to tap into your own personal user manual, I did create a 10 week digital course called Make Friends With Your Feelings to teach you how.)

The cool thing about movement for me, was that I learned to tune into my body, I began to trust myself and my environment. Being able to sense people, distinguish between my nuanced emotions, and access the sensations inside my own body that say YES and NO allowed me, for the very first time, to feel safe in my body and in the world.

This feeling of being fully in touch with your body is what I call embodiment, and it’s my philosophy on the purpose of movement: Move your body to feel your body, or:

Move your body to reclaim access to your body’s infinite wisdom.

All of these different purposes for movement are valid, and all of them are great. Most people probably draw upon several different reasons for moving their bodies, and subscribe to several of these philosophies, in different ratios. For example, right now I’m all about embodiment, but I still love to move for fun and pleasure, and someday I look forward to training for performance again.

What about you? What’s your philosophy? What drives you to move your body? <3

Jessi

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