When the Movement Stops Feeling Free
Every dancer has a moment when movement stops feeling free. You freeze during freestyle. You second-guess your choreography. Or maybe you get injured and suddenly cannot move at all. It feels like a crisis, but what if that moment is not there to stop you? What if it is there to bring you back to something deeper? William Butler Yeats once wrote, “Genius is a crisis that joins the buried self, for certain moments, to our daily mind.” In other words, your biggest challenges are not there to block you. They are there to reconnect you to the part of yourself that you forgot was still there. When you let yourself slow down, breathe, and listen, that inner rhythm begins to move again. That is the real art of dance. Your genius is not lost. It is just waiting for you to surrender. ✨ Practice This The next time you feel blocked, take a few deep breaths before you move. Let your body guide you instead of forcing the choreography. Then share below what shifted for you ⬇️