by Shulagh Jacobs | Nov 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Many single people who start Salsa lessons assume that it’s all so much easier if you have a partner. A real life dance partner who you can call upon to practice with any time of day or night – at 8am in the morning when the kettle is boiling, or after one too...
by Shulagh Jacobs | Jul 13, 2021 | Social Salsa Dancing
Chances are when you step onto a social dance floor for the first time after lockdown you will feel rusty and unfit. We all will. It doesn’t matter how good a dancer you are, no one can stop for nearly a year and a half and not notice some deficit in their...
by Shulagh Jacobs | Jul 8, 2021 | Dancer's Body
Body isolation is usually presented as the first step towards learning body movement in Salsa dance. Yet how many of us have watched even seasoned social dancers struggle and get increasingly frustrated when they just can’t make that body part behave and move...
by Shulagh Jacobs | Jul 2, 2021 | Dance Yourself Happy, Salsa Dance Injury
Mental health is a real buzzword just lately, with reports that so many of us are tangibly suffering from prolonged disruption of our usual patterns of behaviour, our social gatherings, and increased uncertainty over finances and future plans. It seems that there is...
by Shulagh Jacobs | Jun 24, 2021 | Beginner's Salsa, Salsa Mindset
I can remember the days when I was just starting out. I don’t think I ever thought learning Salsa was going to be easy, but I had been teaching fitness and aerobics classes for some years, and considered myself more coordinated than the average person. So on one...
