In the tradition of the best-selling Yoga Anatomy Coloring Book, The Dance Anatomy Coloring Book seeks to demystify anatomy for dancers, dance students, and teachers. Author Tricia Zweier, an associate professor of dance and dance science, provides an entertaining and informative journey through the human body, focusing on the bones, joints, and muscles that are employed in dance. After an overview of helpful terms and the systems of the body, Tricia covers the skeletal system, joints, and connective tissue, followed by the muscular system. Each anatomical feature is illustrated with a beautiful black-and-white drawing of a dance position to color. The book includes positions from a variety of dance styles, including ballet, modern dance, hip hop, and jazz. Coloring the bones and muscles of the body, as well as the names for them, helps to solidify learning and aids in remembering their location and function. Fun facts about anatomy and tips for dancers are sprinkled throughout the book. Thirty-two perforated flash cards enable readers to quiz themselves and study dance anatomy on the go.

How do you create a life you love? As the visionary and CEO of Burn Boot Camp, one of the fastest growing health franchises in the world, cofounders Devan and Morgan Kline have spent years devising the ultimate plan to answer that question. Now they share all their best advice in Burn, your five-point plan to stop self-sabotage and break bad habits like eating junk food, drinking too much, and not exercising enough; and once and for all, you can end depression and experience greater happiness. Burn is a book for people who struggle with their self-improvement efforts. One powerful assertion sets this book radically apart from others in this category: when your body moves, your psychology changes for the better. Your feelings, thoughts, motivation, and behaviors (inner strength) improve. Your mind goes where your body leads, not the other way around.
Devan and Morgan bring you a five-point strategic plan that will allow you to transform your life:
Burn: Move your body to create powerful shifts in how you carry yourself through life. The Klines provide you with a series of unique, fun, and challenging workouts.
Believe: Break negative patterns, find your true motivation, identify internal resistance, adjust your attitude, build a plan, and create momentum to create lasting change.
Nourish: Form nutritional habits that help you achieve a sustained healthy body without deprivation and restriction in just five small actions with fifty ten-minute recipes.
Achieve: Identify your true, overarching, guiding life goal and create actionable steps to realize it.
Connect: Learn how to connect optimally with family, friends, and loved ones so you have a network of support and encouragement.
No matter who you are, what shape you're in, or the setbacks you've endured, you can move forward to create the life you want--starting right now.

Pole Dance Fitness is a guide to performing the best pole dance exercises to create one intense workout. The book contains specific information, practical descriptions, and full-color photos designed to help the reader understand the best approach for each exercise, movement, trick, or spin. Included also are detailed exercise sets to create your own best workout as well as information on stretching before and after performing the pole dance tricks. The workouts are designed to progress as your conditioning and fitness progresses, lowering the risk of injury. Technical notes for each pole figure and spin relate to its level of difficulty so you won't find yourself performing an exercise that is beyond your ability.
Not just a workout, the unique composition of the pole dance transitions combine to create different dance and acrobatic routines so not only will you improve your body posture and alignment and your overall fitness, you will also have a great time doing it

Many women find belly dancing the most enjoyable way to get in shape while simultaneously getting in touch with their bodies and tapping their spirituality. Belly Dancing for Fitness shows how this alternative dance-exercise can be as easy and fulfilling as yoga. Belly dancing includes floor gymnastics, back bends, poses, and stretches. The book also outlines how to synchronize one's breathing and coordinate the mind and body.

Drawing from her years of experience as a world-famous teacher and performer, the author discusses the history and culture of belly dancing. She then carefully leads the reader through each skill level of this increasingly popular exercise art form.

Nourishing Dance: An Essential Guide on Nutrition, Body Image, and Eating Disorders is written with an insider's understanding of the unique needs and pressures of the dance world and the expertise of an eating disorder specialist, dietitian, clinician, and educator. This much-needed resource provides research-based, practical approaches to help dancers fuel optimally, nourish a peaceful relationship with food, and nurture more positive and resilient body image.

Under-fueling, body dissatisfaction, eating disorders, and disordered eating are far too common among dancers. Despite the prevalence of these issues in dancers across genres, and their negative impacts on dancers' physical and mental health and performance, they have not been adequately addressed in the dance community. Improving dancers' health and well-being is necessary for both dancers and the art form to thrive, and everyone involved in the training and care of dancers can play an important role in this mission.

Nourishing Dance provides essential information on nutrition, body image, and eating disorder prevention to help parents, teachers, staff, choreographers, leadership, athletic trainers, coaches, and healthcare professionals contribute to making the dance world a healthier and safer place for dancers.

In the world of competitive dance-biased scoring, skimpy costumes, and toxic rivalries are the additional line items of a bill that exceeds thousands of dollars. Time and money are at stake for parents, but reputation is also at risk for students and studios. With no regulation, this third-party industry leaves you asking yourself the same question after every competition: Is it worth it?

For Chasta Hamilton, six years of sending dancers to competition was six years too many. She swore off competitive dance and rewrote her curriculum to focus on the whole person within each dancer. In Trash the Trophies, Chasta shows you how she challenged preconceived notions of success in the dance industry and embraced camaraderie, effective leadership, and philanthropic initiative to transform her studio. With the four pillars of her intensive training program-technique, performance, community, and character-you'll learn how to increase ROI for everyone involved.

Dance is a commitment to principles; an art form beyond rankings and judgment. This book will show you how to put meaning back into movement, and joy back into the dance studio.

The Choreography of Care chronicles the work of healing artists Stuart Pimsler and Suzanne Costello with thousands of professional caregivers over the past three decades.

*These pages offer countless strategies for bringing creative expression to professional caregivers in their workplaces

*Stuart opens wide his tool chest of movement, theatre, writing, visual, vocal, and improvisational exercises to invigorate healing practices

*At the heart of this book is Stuart's unwavering belief that art offers healing to the very community that is entrusted with our health

Every day, my creative practice affords me the luxury and privilege of learning. In pursuing new ideas, my job asks me to blend sensory awareness and intellectual curiosity. As an artist and problem solver, I embrace paradox. I cherish how art can enhance clarity, vision and understanding of our subjectivity...can uncover how love and loss infiltrate our bodies...can take us deep within to personal healing and daily health.

Line Dancing Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Dance and Performance

Are you ready to take your line dancing skills to the next level? Whether you're a beginner or looking to master advanced moves, Line Dancing Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Dance and Performance is your ultimate resource for becoming a confident, skilled, and expressive line dancer. This book is meticulously researched and offers practical tips, expert techniques, and a deep understanding of line dancing.

Line dancing is more than just a fun activity-it's a way to express yourself, stay fit, and become part of a community. Through this book, you will learn how to perform the perfect steps, enhance your technique, and overcome challenges with ease. From understanding the rhythm of the music to perfecting your footwork and mastering your posture, this guide has it all. Whether you're preparing for a performance or enjoying a casual social dance, you'll find the tools you need to improve and excel.

What's inside?

• A Step-by-Step Approach: Learn the core line dance steps, their variations, and how to seamlessly transition between them for a smooth, fluid dance experience.
• Rhythm and Timing Mastery: Get tips on perfecting your rhythm, syncing movements to music, and understanding tempo for flawless execution.
• Building Confidence: Overcome performance anxiety and embrace every step with poise, energy, and enthusiasm.
• Advanced Techniques: Master advanced footwork, spins, turns, and transitions, adding flair to your dance without losing control or balance.
• Performance Tips: Learn how to handle group dances, connect with your audience, and maintain a strong stage presence that captivates every viewer.
• Creating Your Routines: Explore how to choreograph for yourself and others, making unique, engaging routines that bring joy to the dance floor.

The book goes beyond just the mechanics of dancing-it delves into the psychology and artistry of line dance. It's about connecting the mind and body to create movement that flows and expresses emotion. Plus, with plenty of examples from professional dancers, you'll gain insight into how the best perform with ease, precision, and flair.

If you're looking for a complete guide to improving your line dance skills, this book will empower you to dance confidently, rhythmically, and with joy. Perfect for dancers of all levels, Line Dancing Mastery will inspire you to dance with more enthusiasm and mastery than ever before.

Inside, you'll learn:

• How to master the fundamentals of line dance, from basic steps to advanced techniques.
• How to sync your dance movements with the rhythm and timing of any song.
• The art of body posture, foot placement, and alignment for better balance and grace.
• How to prepare for performances, manage stage fright, and engage an audience.
• Facial expressions, energy, and confidence are important in every dance routine.
• Strategies for creating your own routines and choreographing group performances.

Get ready to step up your line dancing game and have fun! No matter your experience level, Line Dancing Mastery will be your go-to guide for becoming the dancer you've always wanted to be.

A whole-body training program using exercises from the Brazilian martial art of capoeira--perfect for staying in shape and improving your cardiovascular fitness, strength, and agility

The popularity of capoeira continues to rise as more people discover how useful--and fun--it can be for increasing agility and flexibility, as well as strength and endurance. Capoeira Conditioning is an illustrated guide to whole-body training based on this increasingly popular Brazilian martial art. Designed for all ages and all levels of experience, the book is a step-by-step training manual with photographs that guide users through every movement and sequence. Accompanying text gives special pointers and describes the fitness benefits of each individual technique.

Capoeira Conditioning offers no-frills advice about nutrition, regularity of training, capoeira in relation to other sports, and capoeira conditioning for children, along with a simple Q&A section.

This book focuses on technical analysis, including the explanation and interpretation of price movements and chart patterns, as well as the acquisition of successful, ready-to-use trading methods. However, it is critical to go beyond traditional technical analysis and examine trader behavior in relation to psychological elements and mass psychology phenomena.

Nourishing Dance: An Essential Guide on Nutrition, Body Image, and Eating Disorders is written with an insider's understanding of the unique needs and pressures of the dance world and the expertise of an eating disorder specialist, dietitian, clinician, and educator. This much-needed resource provides research-based, practical approaches to help dancers fuel optimally, nourish a peaceful relationship with food, and nurture more positive and resilient body image.

Under-fueling, body dissatisfaction, eating disorders, and disordered eating are far too common among dancers. Despite the prevalence of these issues in dancers across genres, and their negative impacts on dancers' physical and mental health and performance, they have not been adequately addressed in the dance community. Improving dancers' health and well-being is necessary for both dancers and the art form to thrive, and everyone involved in the training and care of dancers can play an important role in this mission.

Nourishing Dance provides essential information on nutrition, body image, and eating disorder prevention to help parents, teachers, staff, choreographers, leadership, athletic trainers, coaches, and healthcare professionals contribute to making the dance world a healthier and safer place for dancers.

In the world of competitive dance-biased scoring, skimpy costumes, and toxic rivalries are the additional line items of a bill that exceeds thousands of dollars. Time and money are at stake for parents, but reputation is also at risk for students and studios. With no regulation, this third-party industry leaves you asking yourself the same question after every competition: Is it worth it?

For Chasta Hamilton, six years of sending dancers to competition was six years too many. She swore off competitive dance and rewrote her curriculum to focus on the whole person within each dancer. In Trash the Trophies, Chasta shows you how she challenged preconceived notions of success in the dance industry and embraced camaraderie, effective leadership, and philanthropic initiative to transform her studio. With the four pillars of her intensive training program-technique, performance, community, and character-you'll learn how to increase ROI for everyone involved.

Dance is a commitment to principles; an art form beyond rankings and judgment. This book will show you how to put meaning back into movement, and joy back into the dance studio.

It challenges you on every level, and it's always waiting around the corner with another punch...

It is just so much easier to say I love you to people...

I mean the grim joke of Parkinson's is it's the gift that keeps on taking...

I think it's great to create beauty through movement...

Peace About Life: Dancing with Parkinson's is a collection of uninhibited, first-hand accounts of struggling, thriving, re-defining identity, and finding peace while living with Parkinson's disease. Claudine Naganuma, artistic director of dNaga Dance Company and certified Dance for PD(R) instructor, spent years interviewing dancers living with Parkinson's disease, as well as some of their neurologists. The interviews were then taken into the studio to inspire and serve as audio for dance pieces. This book is a bilingual compilation of the interviews and poetry in English and Japanese, arranged around themes that arose during the interview process over time, such as diagnosis; coming out to friends and family; shifting identity; management of symptoms through medication; communicating with doctors; dancing; and finding peace while living with PD. Anyone who picks up this immersive book will gain insight into people's deeply personal experiences living and dancing with Parkinson's disease. Foreword by David Leventhal. Translated by Takako Hayakawa

The Feeling Balletbody introduces the innovative teaching concept BalletBodyLogic, the brainchild of teacher, dancer and choreographer Annemari Autere.

Accompanied by charming illustrations by Raphaëlle Zemella, The Feeling Balletbody reveals how dancers can effortlessly enhance their posture and movement by conscious use of the red muscle fibers and the internal movement of the connective tissue. Annemari also busts some of the biggest ballet myths, using science and her extensive experience as a professional dancer.