Austin Crumley

The cart is open. And I want to talk to you like a person, not a marketer.

Here’s what I know about this moment in a launch: the teachers who are still on the fence aren’t there because they don’t care. They’re there because they’ve been burned by vague promises before 👉🏼 the workshop that sounded transformational and sent them home with nothing they could actually use on Tuesday. The PD that inspired them for a week and disappeared by September.

I don’t want STL to be that for you. Which is why I want to be specific about what it actually does!

STL supports 4 things.
1️⃣ How you prepare: building class architecture with a real through-line instead of hoping the connection shows up on its own.
2️⃣ How you pace: understanding load and sequencing so the demand you’re building toward actually has the conditions it needs to land.
3️⃣ How you support your dancers: correction literacy, nervous system-informed teaching decisions, cueing that gives the body somewhere to go instead of something to feel bad about.
4️⃣ How you re-enter September: with a clearer, calmer, more intentional system than the one you left with in June.

That’s it. That’s the offer. No magic. No revolution. Just a structured, supported six weeks to build something real.

Three Labs available (Foundations, Curriculum, and Teaching Smarter) + the Mastermind Collective for five teachers who want direct weekly coaching access all summer. Labs run June 15 through July 24.

Early Bird is live right now and closes June 4 at 11:59pm. Enroll before then and your Lab-specific workbook (a $127 value) comes free with enrollment. After June 4 it’s standard pricing and the workbook goes back to full price.

And when STL ends in July, the Ballet Reeducators Membership is where the work continues. Monthly, ongoing, the long-term home for teachers who want to keep building after the summer container closes. STL is the intensive. The membership is the home base.

The door is open. Comment STL below to get started! Use code EARLYBIRD for special pricing.

Early Bird closes June 4 at 11:59pm.

I want to remove any confusion about what Summer Training Lab actually is this year, because there are 4 different ways to work with me this summer & each one is built for a different teacher at a different stage.

🔸Foundations Lab — $349
Self-paced with biweekly live synthesis calls. This is the pedagogy, psychology, and nervous system science that traditional ballet training never gave most of us.
If you want to understand why learning works the way it does before you rebuild how you teach 👉🏼 this is where you start. The most accessible entry point into the STL ecosystem.

🔸Curriculum Lab — $449
Weekly live Friday check-ins. This one is for the teacher who is done planning week to week and ready to build a real curriculum system 👉🏼 concept threads, class arcs, progressive pathways that connect across weeks and terms instead of existing in isolation. If your planning still feels like starting from scratch every Sunday night, this is the Lab that changes that.

🔸Teaching Smarter: Dance Science Lab — $499
Weekly live Friday check-ins, co-taught with a dance science expert. Applied dance science, strength integration, and seasonal periodization 👉🏼 not as theory, but as something you actually use in every class you design. If you want the science to live in the room and not just on a page, this is your Lab.

🔸Mastermind Collective — $1,699 [5 spots only]
All 3 Labs + weekly group coaching calls and a personal weekly voice memo from me throughout the entire summer & post-program support after STL ends. This is the deepest level of access I offer. It’s not a course. It’s a coaching relationship. Five spots. That’s the cap.

You can also combine Labs if more than one is calling you 👉🏼 bundle pricing and details come when the door opens on May 25.

If you’ve been following this content and something has been landing, this is the moment where that resonance becomes something usable. The door opens in 2 days.

Comment SUMMER below & I’ll send you everything you need to know.

Here’s what I want to say directly, before I say anything else 👇🏼

If you’ve been following this content for weeks (reading the carousels, watching the reels, saving the posts) and something keeps landing for you, that feeling is data. It’s not coincidence. It’s your teaching brain recognizing a gap it already knew was there.

And here’s the thing about that gap:
‼️it doesn’t close on its own ‼️

I’ve watched a lot of teachers sit in the resonance phase for a long time. Nodding along. Feeling seen. Saving content. And then September arrives and they’re back in the same cycle 👉🏼 over-correcting, improvising, replaying class alone on the drive home, wondering why the shift they keep meaning to make never quite happens.

It’s not because they aren’t capable, but moreover because resonance without a framework and a structure to apply it in doesn’t change teaching.
It just makes you more aware of what isn’t working.

STL is where the resonance becomes something usable.

But I want to be honest about who it’s actually built for, because the clearer I am about that, the better the experience is for everyone inside it.

It’s NOT for the teacher who wants a content library to browse when she has time. It’s not for the teacher who wants someone to hand him a ready-made curriculum. It’s not for the teacher who’s looking for inspiration to carry them through the fall.

It’s for the teacher who is ready to build something real 👉🏼 a class architecture with a through-line, a correction practice that’s grounded in how learning actually works, a planning system that reduces the Sunday night scramble instead of adding to it. The teacher who wants to understand why — not just what.

If you’ve been circling this work and wondering whether STL is for you, the checklist on slide 3 will tell you more honestly than I can in a caption.

Early Bird opens May 25.
Comment SUMMER below and I’ll make sure you’re first in the room when the door opens.

I want to be specific about what actually changes when you go through Summer Training Lab

…because “transform your teaching” is the kind of language that sounds good and means nothing without something concrete underneath it.

Here’s what concrete looks like 👇🏼

➡️ Your class architecture gets clearer.
Not just what you’re covering today, but what you’re building across the week, the month, the term. A through-line that connects warm-up to center to allegro by concept, not just by tradition. So you stop walking in hoping it connects and start knowing it does.

➡️ Your curriculum progression gets intentional.
The gap between individual classes and long-term development closes — because you have a framework for scaffolding concepts across weeks so dancers are building on what came before, not starting over every time.

➡️ Your reading of learning gets sharper.
You start to notice things you didn’t know how to see before 👉🏼 whether the nervous system was available to receive what you asked for, whether the correction landed somewhere it could actually stick, whether the class was designed to hold the learning you were asking for. That literacy changes everything about how you respond in the room.

➡️ And your planning gets calmer.
Not faster necessarily, but calmer. Because you’re working from a system instead of improvising from scratch every week. The Sunday night scramble becomes a planning session with direction.

THAT is what STL builds.
Not a new teaching persona. A more reliable way of thinking about what you’re doing and why.

Early Bird opens May 25 ☀️
Comment SUMMER below to join the waitlist — first access and best pricing goes to the list.

Most ballet teachers were trained to teach steps. Very few of us were trained to build learning.

That gap in training changes everything.
It’s why classes can feel scattered even when you’re working hard.
It’s why corrections don’t always stick.
It’s why so many thoughtful teachers are carrying big questions alone, trying to create more clarity, more structure, and more real progress for their dancers.

That’s exactly why I created Summer Training Lab 2026.

This year, STL is built for ballet educators who want deeper support in the areas that matter most:
👉🏼 stronger pedagogy + psychology
👉🏼 clearer curriculum design
👉🏼 more science-informed teaching
👉🏼 and, for some, deeper high-touch support directly from me.

Early Bird opens May 25 ☀️
If you want first access when doors open, join the waitlist now.

Comment SUMMER and I’ll send you the link 👀