How He Went From NO DANCE SKILLS To Enjoying Dancing At Social Events

Have you ever thought that you will never be able to learn how to dance or maybe just dancing is not for you? Today I want to share with you a conversation that I had with one of my clients Michael, who's a client inside my Confidence Tour Dance program and I will show you his transformation to hopefully show you that anything is possible at any age if you really want to achieve it. Michael told me that he has been trying to learn how to dance and especially to become confident dancing social settings and to be able to express himself on the dance floor for a long long time and he tried a lot of different things and different methods to learn unfortunately unsuccessfully. I really had this burning desire to learn how to dance freestyle dance specifically what's covered in this course for a very long time and I tried a lot of different things so I would go to group dance sessions right so I took swing dancing classes right groups classes salsa classes latin dancing private lessons uh latin dancing um what else um blues dancing which is really really a lot of fun hip-hop classes choreography which is really more of a choreography is like a like a like a performance right it's not really um expressing yourself and that's what I want to do I want to to express myself express my feelings not to anyone else not to show off not to perform in front of anybody else or to show other people what to do yeah looking cool and dance floor is an extra bonus but it's really for me to connect with the and not to flip out and freeze which is basically what I did on the dance floor I would do one movement you know for a whole like a whole song or two and then try to switch it up and it just didn't work all of the classes that he was taking didn't really prepare him to be able to dance with confidence at social events even though he spent a ton of money he spent a lot of time learning he didn't see any result from that those lessons didn't get him any closer to accomplishing his goals and he also mentions learning on YouTube I've watched YouTube like nowadays a lot of people go on YouTube I didn't have that when I was younger but um if you look on YouTube there are all these tutorials and you can try to follow along but it's it's difficult if you don't have that back dance background okay so where was Michael before he started learning from me take a look dancing before the program uh was horrible um uncoordinated I had this idea that I wanted to have fun when I went out and I wanted to relax have a good time enjoy the music but it's hard to do that when you don't know how to move your body the way that you think you want to or should in your mind so before the program I was really really stiff that's the main thing and I was really stiff because number one I didn't know what moves to do right and number two I didn't practice a whole lot number three um I was just scared I was just because I didn't know I didn't know what what to do and because he didn't have the dance skills this is I would sort of freak out I would I would I would be scared to go out because I would think about you know what what would I do on the dance floor I think a lot of people do this where they say oh no people are going to see me dancing let's go on YouTube to try to learn something quick and you can't you can't learn how to dance from YouTube in a few days right when he joined confidence to dance after trying all of those methods and being fed up with them things started to shift for Michael and he started noticing progress there's so many things that improved since I joined um the first thing is of course coordination controlling my body in different areas connecting my body and controlling my body in conjunction with the rhythm it's like using my body as an instrument that has improved dramatically and so because the coordination improved and because my rhythm improved and my freestyle improved right now I'm at the point where I don't really have to think too much about what moves exactly I'm doing I'm just thinking I'm just feeling the music right this is what I wanted when I first started uh taking the course I wanted to feel the music and do what felt naturally of course um in order to build up this body uh vocabulary you have to go through this whole um series of exercises that are in the course but I'm at the point now where I'm just feeling the music and I'm not really thinking too much I'm feeling it and I'm able to express myself he knew that one of the biggest issues that he was struggling with was lack of coordination and this was something that all of the group classes didn't really help Michael with this is what he has to say about his coordination now I improved a lot in terms of my body mechanics and do layering um different things doing different body movements at one time that's what I mean by coordination so um coordinating my my foot movement with my knee movement with my torso movement with my shoulder or arm movement with my with while also keeping loose all of that you know um of course I had to go through a learning phase but all of that is just so much more natural now being equipped with permanent dance skills such as rhythm coordination ability to improvise make Michael feel prepared for dancing in front of other people at any social event that he will have coming up in the future and he now actually enjoys being on the dance floor right now what's different is I'm looking forward to going to that wedding um that's going to be coming up in the spring I'm looking forward to any opportunities that are out there for me to to dance not to show off or to try to perform but so that I can really connect with the music be in touch with my environment and just have fun so I think um you know my confidence level is has increased a lot um a lot of times people try to connect confidence with acting a certain way in front of other people for me confidence is having not having courage to do something in public right now but for me confidence is just really going out there feeling my best and feeling the music and being uh relaxed and having fun and not being self-conscious is what I'm trying to say so how come all of these other methods didn't work for him and you don't know this Monica but I actually took other core dance courses too and this is different this is better um and so uh first of all they're recorded they're on demand I can do them anytime on my own time take my time to really practice on my own time secondly um we have the community in the Facebook group um and what I like about that is I can watch other people progress and that's really motivating for me right um if I watch somebody maybe in one or two lessons ahead of me um um I can have something to look forward to or I can say they did it too or I saw where they began you have seen some of the clients that Michael is talking about because I do post their transformations on my channel and of course learning how to dance is not easy it is a process but it is easy however to feel alone this is exactly why it is so important to have a supportive community of other beginners around you and this is why for me it's very important to give every single student inside my program my feedback whenever they needed my guidance so they feel like they're not doing this on their own important part of the course for me is actually the feedback that I get on each video from somebody who's a professional dancer and who can teach and has been through this process with so many other people who have gone before me um and every single feedback is detailed it's it's tailored to me and I think that's the most important part of the course because I could just practice on my own in front of the mirror and I remember going through the course and thinking I just don't know what's going on I just don't know how to remember I know something's wrong I can see in the video I can see it in the mirror um and I can record myself as often as I want but I don't I don't have the eye that you know to to really tell what's wrong and then so when I get the feedback I'm thinking oh yeah that makes so much sense and now I can improve on that and and I can't help myself and even if it's just grooving I'm doing it I'm doing in my car um doing all the time and it's just it's a it's a really great feeling to be able to express myself and feel the music and um and to to be able to dance and know that you know you can feel comfortable anywhere. I am so proud of Michael who was finally able to accomplish his goals and if you want to see more inspiring stories I will share a whole playlist with transformations of my clients of their before and after videos of what they have to say about the program below this video so you can check it out if you're at the point where you don't want to feel left out next time you go out you want to be able to have fun and enjoy dancing whether it's with your partner your friends your family I can help you you can book a free consultation with me um below this video you'll find the link there and I cannot wait to talk to you about your dance goals and see how I can help you inside my program online program confidence through dance thank you so much for watching let me know if this story inspired you let me know in the comments what you struggle with when it comes to dancing I will see you on the dance floor bye guys you