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09/27/2026

Dance teachers,

You know technique matters. You feel it in your own body. But you’re stuck on how to translate your knowledge and experience quickly, in a way that actually lands and creates shifts you can SEE and your students can FEEL.

You’ve exhausted every creative way of explaining and demoing the correction.

What if the missing link is understanding what information your student’s nervous system is missing?

When you can assess what sensory information your student needs in order to access a connection or step, teaching becomes less exhausting and SO much more fun.

You know where to go next.

And your student gets to experience those quick wins that make them feel capable, rather than being corrected over and over again.

Want to learn more?

⭐️✨Comment **WAITLIST** and we’ll send you exclusive info and discounts on our upcoming courses.

You’re also opting into a community of like-minded teachers who cheer each other on, help each other troubleshoot, and keep each other inspired. 🧡

You deserve tools that help you translate what you know.

Movement Arts is here to support you.

Thank you to the beautiful Désirée for allowing us to share this in-session win. 🔥

Neuro techniques by Meghann Koppele Duffy, MA, EdD (s) - Neuro Movement Specialist 🙌🏻🧠

09/15/2026

The difference between a correction that sticks and one you have to repeat lies in the nervous system’s ability to respond.

🧡At Movement Arts, we give dance teachers neuroscience-backed tools to make corrections land, so students accelerate their learning and teachers level up their teaching.

➡️Comment JUMPS and we’ll send you the link to join the waitlist for our upcoming course!

09/04/2026

If you found us because you care about giving your dancers strong foundations, but ballet and technique are competing with everything else on the schedule, you’re in the right place.

Dance teachers are being asked to fit more into less time: more choreography, more performance opportunities, and more student goals, often with limited time for technique.

But we believe strong technique is what gives dancers freedom to express themselves artistically ‼️

You don’t need to change your entire studio culture or find more hours in the week 🤔

You need better ways to make the technique time you already have count.

At Movement Arts, we’re bringing the value of traditional ballet foundations into the studio through a progressive, science-backed approach to movement and learning.

If ballet and strong foundations matter to you, we’re here to help.

💬 Comment “TECHNIQUE” and we’ll send you our FREE Teaching Guide.

And if you want to go deeper, join our waitlist for our upcoming courses.

09/02/2026

Do you feel like you’re giving the same correction over and over… and your student STILL isn’t getting it?

Ever wonder why their brain isn’t responding to the information you’re giving it?

We have a rule. If they don’t get it after 3 times- it’s not that the student isn’t listening, or that you are a bad teacher.

It’s because their brain isn’t getting the correct sensory information it needs to UNLOCK that movement option, or coordination.

Our FREE Teaching Guide explores three practical strategies for turns, jumps + extensions using a sensory approach because:

➡️ sensory input determines motor output ( movement)

If a student isn’t able to achieve the movement, we need to change the sensory information their brain is receiving - because that’s what the brain actually responds to.

The three main sensory systems driving movement are:

visual
vestibular ( inner ear)
proprioception

Understanding how they work can completely change the way you approach the cues you give.

If you’ve tried everything and still haven’t found answers to your toughest teaching challenges, you’re exactly the kind of teacher we love working with.

Most teachers find us when they feel stuck.

So… where are you stuck?

💬 Comment GUIDE and we’ll send you our FREE Teaching Guide for turns, jumps + extensions.

And stay tuned for our teacher courses coming this fall ✨
Follow along to be in the know, and take the next step as a teacher 😍

Education Meghann Koppele Duffy, MA, EdD (s) - Neuro Movement Specialist

08/27/2026

Charlene demoing one of our favourite brain- based cues for dance 🧠 Fingers on rib & hip to help students differentiate joints to feel what joints move and what joints need to maintain their distance. Simple and effective!

We’ve got something exciting in the works. After talking to hundreds of dance teachers they have told us they want to:

- understand why a student is struggling with something
- know where to go when a correction isn’t working
- help students feel a movement differently rather than repeating the same instruction
- have practical strategies for troubleshooting the common things we struggle to teach.

We have challenging jobs. If technique was easy to teach, we’d all have it mastered 🤷🏻‍♀️😅 ( but where is the fun or growth in that.. right?) 😊

If you know there is more to teaching technique than knowing the steps…

We want to help you find clarity around how to help it click for your dancers and feel easier to teach.

A nervous-system-based approach gives us another lens for understanding what’s happening in a movement, so we can troubleshoot, find the missing piece, and give students the information they need to feel and do something differently.

That’s what going to be built into our teacher course this fall! 🩰😍

⬇️⬇️ COMMENT WAITLIST -and we’ll send you the link to join the waitlist+ to be in the know + get access to exclusive deals.

AND if you join now you’ll receive a survey where you can tell us what would be most useful for YOU in the course … we want your input!! 🫶

As a thank you, you’ll receive the month of September in our membership for FREE💃🎉 Deadline August 30th.

Don’t miss this great deal and opportunity to invest in yourself. Can’t wait 🧡

Education & techniques by Neuro movement pro: Meghann Koppele Duffy, MA, EdD (s) - Neuro Movement Specialist

08/24/2026

What if your dancer’s “tight hips” aren’t actually the problem? 👀

And what if the missing piece is… their eyes?

Yep. Their eyes.

Your visual system does much more than help you spot a pirouette. Your eyes are constantly sending information to your brain about where you are in space, and that information can influence how your nervous system organizes movement.

So if a dancer has difficulty smoothly tracking their eyes vertically or side-to-side, changing that visual input can sometimes change what happens in their movement.

Including their hip range of motion! 🤯

That’s exactly why we love working with the visual system in dance.

Because sometimes telling a dancer to stretch or strengthen more isn’t addressing the information their brain actually needs to improve the ex*****on of a step, or their range of motion.

So why did moving the eyes up and down help me get lower in the split 👀⬆️⬇️

That’s the kind of question we LOVE exploring with dancers and teachers. Let us know what you think below! 😊

And this is just one example of how neuro-informed strategies can change the way you teach movement.

Want to start experimenting with these techniques on yourself or in your own classroom?

➡️Comment NEURO we’ll send you our free resources with practical strategies you can start using today. 🧠✨

08/20/2026

Telling a dancer to “force the hip down” once it’s already hiked doesn’t change the pattern that made it hike in the first place.

It might create a better-looking shape temporarily… but the hip will keep hiking, and their extension won’t get higher.

The problem? They aren’t initiating the movement from the correct joint: the femoral head.

So yes, we said it…hold the error.👀😬

Keeping your student in the “wrong” position can actually be the easiest place to create better separation and help them learn which joint should move and which joint shouldn’t

If your corrections aren’t landing, it may be because your student can’t yet differentiate the joints needed to apply the correction.

Most teachers have heard about maintaining “space” in the hip or creating more room in the hip socket, but the ability to differentiate joints is what helps students maintain that space throughout the movement, rather than having to reset their position before every extension.

Teachers have been LOVING these strategies. 🧠

Comment JOINTS if you want to get on our waitlist & be the first to know about our teacher courses coming this fall.

➡️we’ll dive into strategies like this through a neuro-informed approach to teaching dance for quicker wins, better outcomes, and more confident teaching😊

08/19/2026

Teachers, we’ve been having SO much fun working with you lately and honestly we’re just getting started😀

We’ve been exploring what happens when we put the nervous system in the driver’s seat of our teaching… and the results have been amazing!

If you’ve been watching from the sidelines thinking, “okay but what are they doing over there?”

You’re going to want to be on this list!!

We are getting ready to share more about what we’re creating for teachers this fall: new ways to understand dance training, refresh and inspire your teaching, and help your dancers get more lightbulb moments more often!

Comment WAITLIST and we’ll send you the link 🧠🩰

Come be in the know 😉

Happy (belated) International Dance Day from Lily and Charlene!We love connecting with dancers and teachers at every sta...
04/30/2026

Happy (belated) International Dance Day from Lily and Charlene!

We love connecting with dancers and teachers at every stage of life, because dance never truly leaves you. With a brain based approach, we believe you can feel stronger, more confident and empowered in this art form for life 🧡

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