How To Dance Better When Your Moves Are Rigid (DO THIS TO LOOK LOOSER)

I'm telling you, if you're feeling rigid or stiff, you need to try this right now. In this dance tips video, I'm going to teach you how you can make your movements appear more loose and how to make them look more natural. For the best social dance tutorials and tips, please subscribe to my channel and hit the bell to be notified whenever I post a new video. And if we haven't met yet, hi, my name is Monika and I teach men and women how to dance better in social settings, clubs, weddings, parties, you name it. If you would like to develop permanent dance skills and confidence for dancing in social settings at any event and join thousands of my students who were able to successfully do so, you can book a free one-on-one consultation with me. Stick around till the end of this video, I'm going to show you how you can apply. So let's talk about why your movements might be appearing rigid or tense and what you can do to fix it. I notice a lot of times this happens when you're dancing to the beat. You can dance to many different things in the music, right? But usually people dance to the beat, whether it's a snare, kick drum, you name it. So that becomes a deadline. You have to hit, you have to perform the movement. If you're dancing, let's say on the snare, which a lot of my tutorials, we are dancing on the snare. You have to make the movement happen by the time you hear that beat, usually sounding like a snap or a clap. So because as a beginner, you don't have that ability to control your muscular energy developed yet, you will accelerate, even though it might be subconscious, but you will accelerate. You will add more power into the movement, but that power does not have resolution at the end. That acceleration makes you appear tense. Of course, once we have great rhythm skills, we know exactly how much time we need to perform a certain movement, and then we can relax more into it. There are some things you can do to appear looser. Keep in mind, there are many things you can accent in a song, right? So if you're moving to the beat, you can be dancing to the snare drum. A lot of my tutorials, I'm showing you the movements that accent the snare. You can dance to the tempo, so kick drum and the snare drum together. You can dance to syncopation, so all those little things that are happening in the song. Some of the movements I'm going to show you today, we're going to move to the melody, and for that, we're going to use the movements that are smooth in nature. Now, what does it mean smooth? It will mean that they are continuous. You're not stopping, so therefore, there's no deadline or there's no time that you have to finish those movements by. You'll just move non-stop, and that's why there's no point in rushing them, so you can take your time. Let me give you some examples, and of course, you'll find all the tutorials listed below, because I taught all those movements previously on my channel. So hips, circle, any type of hip roll. If you're doing dancehall, it's wine. You can do figure eight, any version of the figure eight, and I definitely taught those on my channel before, and those are for the hips. For the shoulders, if you like to move the upper body, I like to do any type of shoulder roll. So you can roll the shoulder back, you can roll the shoulder forward, you can do it with just shifting of the weight, it will look good, especially to lower tempo songs. For the arms, what you can do is arm roll, right? So that's another movement that goes non-stop. So you can do all those movements in the meantime, and of course, keep working on loosening up the body as well, because that happens over time. It's impossible for you to start moving in a relaxed way after a week, a month, or even three months. It takes longer than that. It depends on your genetics, it depends if you have a sedentary lifestyle, it depends if you play sports, it depends on if you're flexible, there's a lot of factors that go into it. But what I found extremely helpful, and I use this exercise every single day when I used to learn how to dance, every single day, is the isolations exercise. So I'll show you one for the upper body and the lower body as well. Literally, this is a game changer. The best thing is, you don't have to be super flexible to be able to look loose. I'm not flexible at all, I know. Shocking. But I am really good at isolations, because I practice a crap ton of them. Two things that you can do for yourself right now. Number one, incorporate some smoother looking movements into your freestyle. Start dancing to the melody as well as the beat, just so your freestyle has more variety and you're mixing in those movements that will make you look looser and more natural. And number two, work on your isolations. You don't have to do it every day, but incorporate this into your practicing. You will see results if you do it consistently, I promise you. If you struggle with dancing in social settings because you don't have the dance skills, you don't have the confidence it takes to get out on the dance floor and dance, spots are now open for a free one-on-one consultation with me to join my Confidence Through Dance program. Who I typically work with is men and women, adults, who avoid the dance floor and they want to be able to just blend in with other people when dancing and look natural on the dance floor. If you're interested in the consultation, below this video you'll find a link to a short survey. Fill it out, this will bring you to a calendar where you can book our session. Let me know if this video was helpful you guys. Let me know if you'd like me to give you tips on how to dance better, how to learn dancing better and I'll be happy to create more tutorials like that one. If you like this video, don't forget to click the like button and subscribe to my channel. Share this video with your friends. Thank you for learning from me and I'll see you in my next video. Bye!