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How To Keep Jury Duty From Hijacking Your Practice - 5 things to do when you're playing the waiting game
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Can you find 5 minutes? That's all you need to begin developing a consistent practice habit.
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Would you like to improvise with ease? Learn to free up your brain so you can be 'present' in the music with the Improvisation Safety Net Coaching program.
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What's happening at Belly Dance Geek? And just who IS this Heather Wayman person anyway?
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Rest and Recharge - A special message from Nadira
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How Opening Your Teeth Can Un-shutter Your Stage Presence
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Do You "Scribble" On Your Improv?
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How to learn choreography more easily and efficiently - by doing it backwards
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How recording your practice can improve your performance
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How to ACTUALLY improve your dancing this year.
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How to get over the improvisation hump.
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How belly dance (and being thankful) makes our heart smile.
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How to keep nerves from messing with your mojo.
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How chasing perfection hurts our dance.
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How to make your dance open and friendly.
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How to channel feline confidence on stage.
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5 ways to retrieve your veil (or any other prop) at the end of your belly dance show.
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What Douglas Adams can teach belly dancers about performance.
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3 Strategies for Approaching Unfamiliar Music
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(It's not a competition.)
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Disaster planning for veil mishaps
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3 tips from the newest member of the Belly Dance Geek® team.
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5 things your introduction needs to accomplish
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How the traditional belly dance routine structure takes your audience on a wild ride
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On-the-spot musicality for improvisation
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Why (and how) to play zils with veil
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My personal must-haves for the dance
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When to play finger cymbals (and when you might not)
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An easy technique to coordinate playing finger cymbals while you dance
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Dimension Series Part 5: Working with Energy
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Do you listen to podcasts while you cook, clean up, or do other work with your hands? How to get Alexa to play the show hands-free.
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Dimension Series Part 4: Time
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Dimension Series Part 3: Shape
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Dimension Series Part 2: Working with Space
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How to add depth to flat dancing
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It's not an oxymoron...
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The people and places that hold us together
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How to make "back to basics" actually pay off.
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Why you have to be flexible to be consistent
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3 Must-Haves to Help a General Audience Enjoy Your Show
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How to get better at something you already know.
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A special "What Happens in the Prius" episode with special guest Kezmaya
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How to make a sword piece captivating, not just impressive.
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6 ways to add improv to your performance - at any level.
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What my 1st grade teacher taught me about performing.
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What to do when you're your own worst enemy.
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How to find nuggets of helpful feedback in judgmental comments.
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When is a blunt comment just a mistake, and when does it point to a harmful pattern?
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How to tell judgmental comments from helpful feedback.
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How judgmental comments stall your development.
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Why you think you're boring LONG before the audience does.
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How to restart a stalled practice.
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How to mine what you already know to create fresh combinations.
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How to keep your inner toddler from derailing your practice
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One question that changes everything
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How taking a break from dancing can make you a better dancer (and how to make sure it does)
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What to do if the moves you remember easily when you improvise aren't working for you.
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What soccer goalies can teach belly dancers about improvisation.
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How to sneak more practice into your routine.
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And dissing your safety moves won't make you popular
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Why you have to turn up the heat just to look NORMAL on stage
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How "elevating" belly dance sacrifices its core values.
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How focusing on the nuances of "joy" helps keep your expression honest and natural.
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Why the last 15 seconds of your show are the most important.
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