“Who needs to take drugs when you can do this?”
~quote from a recent Beach Dance participant~  
I wholeheartedly agree.  Why get high with a substance that’s toxic to your body and takes your mind away from being fully present when you can have what I’ll call a whole-being experience that takes you to a blissed-out place?   What exactly do I mean by whole-being?   Simply put, I think it’s the feeling of being free.  [...]

This time last year, I had my own studio.   It was not only a lovely space to dance in, but it was a lively space to be surprised in.   My business partner, Elia and I and our community of dancers experienced many surprises during the year we danced there together.   There were dances of laughter and dances of tears.  There were moments when the music made us move differently than we were [...]

Colleen Wainwright writes a poem on her blog every Thursday and after reading her post today, I felt compelled to share a poem I wrote a few months back. 
I will dance my days filled with glee and sorrow. 
I will dance today. 
I will dance tomorrow. 
I will dance with others. 
I will dance alone. 
I will dance why not and just because.
I will dance ridiculous joy and fun.
I will dance for laughter.
I will dance for [...]

I spent this past weekend dancing in Erie, Pennsylvania.   I had never been to that part of the country before and yet I felt like I was home.   Home, for me, is more about a feeling than a particular place.  While there are definitely some physical locations on this planet I’m more attracted to than others, the feeling of home is one that can occur anywhere where there is love and a [...]

We need to dance.  And there are a multitude of reasons why we do.  And I know there are just as many reasons why people don’t.   Why.  It’s my favorite one word question.  It’s better than when, where, what and how.   The next time someone asks you what you do, tell them why you do what you do instead and see how the conversation opens up.  Notice how people engage differently when you tell them a personal story that matters to you [...]

Many things on the mind of this dancer today.  Despite less-than-ideal weather this past holiday weekend, the first two events of the 2010 season happened and they were both magical and memorable.  On Friday night, five enthusiastic souls ventured out onto the beach amidst dark gray skies and a light drizzle.   Clad in our raingear, we were prepared for the wet weather, but I don’t think we knew just how wet we were going to get.
  
The theme for the evening’s dance was [...]

Yesterday I had the opportunity to dance with a lovely gal named Erin. She’s a reporter for one of our local newspapers and wanted to write a story about Beach Dance.. I wholeheartedly agreed to the interview with one slight caveat…I wanted her to experience it for herself. The third season doesn’t officially begin for another five weeks, but I wanted to give Erin an opportunity [...]

The last dance of the summer season in Cannon Beach on Saturday, September 26 was perfect. It’s taken me a week to write about it partly because the effect it’s had on me has been a profound one. I hope to capture and share with you in a few words what I mean by profound and then I’m just going to let the photographs I took with a [...]

Last Saturday night, we were treated to the kind of sky show you see here in the picture off to the right. This was taken just a few moments after the sun had set. I was trying my darndest to get a shot off before that glorious orange orb sank into the horizon, but I couldn’t get my camera out in time to catch it. It’s [...]

Even though there’s still another three weeks until Autumn is officially here on the calendar, the changing of the seasons is already well under way. The leaves are slowly, ever-so slowly beginning to change color. There’s a slight chill in the air that’s present in the morning and at a night that wasn’t there before. It’s not so much the shades of yellow, orange and red nor [...]