You Don’t Need More Salsa Lessons – You Need a New Perspective
I developed my Social Dancer Mentorship programme for those who have struggled to learn and improve their skills via mainstream Salsa clubs and classes.
If this is you you may be rapidly losing faith in your own dance potential and ability to reach the goals you had right at the start.
You might be beating yourself up and blaming yourself.
But what if it wasn’t your fault?
What if doing “more” wasn’t the answer?
What if it wasn’t you that wasn’t up to the job, but the approach you’ve been using?
You Don’t Need More Superheroes – You Need a Strategy
You need to DROP all the Salsa baggage and previous learning you’ve acquired to date.
Mostly this is what’s preventing your progress and keeping you stuck in that plateau because it includes all the bad habits you embedded during the early days, as well as the limiting beliefs you have carried along the way.
You need to DITCH the Salsa Superheroes you’ve been following on YouTube and Instagram.
Although it’s great to be inspired, just copying their moves and cloning their style stops you from developing your own signature trademarks.
So don’t expect to come into my studio with a routine you did in someone else’s class and ask me to show you how to make their moves work.
You need to DUMP the stories you’ve told yourself about what you think is holding you back as the truth is probably something very different.
The way I do things is radically different to most other teachers out there.
You Don’t Need More Confidence – You Need a Better Mindset
About 90% of becoming a good dancer is winning the battle between the ears, and sticking with it for long enough.
Success or failure really boils down to acquiring the attitude, beliefs, confidence and discipline you need to keep showing up and working on yourself.
To not get disillusioned and down on yourself when things feel challenging.
To have a strategy that keeps you focused when life gets in the way, and helps you to conquer those moments of self doubt that we all struggle with.
To navigate the social dance scene and tick the boxes of fun and connection, without falling into comparing yourself to others and letting this trash your fragile confidence.
You Don’t Need More Moves – You Need Better Structured Learning
You’ve probably already found that your brain doesn’t remember class material for very long after the fact.
And the reason is to do with the way our brains actually learn. So many social dancers beat themselves up for not remembering moves, when what they really need is a system which automatically creates a map of the dance for their brain, so each “new” thing can be integrated with what you already know.
You Don’t Need More Routines – You Need Improvisation Skills
I don’t teach routines in private lessons – if you’ve read any of my content you’ll know that I believe routines are not that useful and actually delay your journey towards truly connected, improvisational social dancing.
I’ll open the gateway to you hearing and actually feeling the music at the emotional level you need in order to be able to dance spontaneously from the heart.
This deeper connection will enable you to develop your own style and feel confident expressing yourself on the dance floor.
This is because pre-choreographed routines are a PERFECT vehicle for performance based dances such as Ballet and Ballroom.
However, although they are an easy way for instructors to teach large groups, they do not teach the main key skill you need for the social dance floor:
IMPROVISATION!
But there are other reasons as well.
It’s a process which I’ve designed to remove all the stumbling blocks before they actually occur, and it will very likely involve you relearning some of the fundamentals in order to execute moves and combinations with more skill, incorporate more musicality and expression, and enable mastery of more complex material much faster in the long run:
- The human brain has very limited capacity for memorising sequences of moves in this way, resulting in increased pressure and overwhelm.
- Routines do not teach followers how to trust the lead and reciprocate the connection.
- Leaders who rely on routines tend to always link the same moves in the same way, in the same order, resulting in boring and predictable dances.
- Dancers tend not to develop their own creative potential and remain in a consuming, copying mindset.
- Leaders who are mostly focused on remembering their next move are not fully present with their partner.
- Routines do not help you develop musicality – they disconnect you from it, especially in novice and beginner dancers.
- Routines reward the wrong skills, training dancers to prize performance, memorisation and automation over connection, presence and creativity.
Who This is For
The truth is that the clients who have achieved the most have stayed with me over the long term – a minimum of twelve months.
This is because it takes time to build the correct foundations and grow skills.
Most social dancers don’t get anywhere near their true capabilities because they don’t have a plan, and they don’t have the big picture thinking which guides their progress in a layered, methodical way.
My social dancer mentorship is for any level of Salsa dancer – including beginners.
It’s SPECIFICALLY designed for those who wish to prioritise social dancing, but ALSO to reach a higher level in a faster time frame – and it achieves this by taking out all the guesswork.
It’s also for those who have found that club based classes aren’t really working for them. For this reason it’s great for those who struggle with confidence and mindset.
It’s not a private lesson course – it’s a dance journey that’s designed to help you reach your potential as an individual.
Not become a second rate clone of your teacher.
You’ll need to be:
- Highly committed
- In it for the long haul
- Ready, willing and able to do the work
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What to Expect
The Social Dancer Mentorship is a hybrid programme – part mentorship, part private lesson course and part online academy.
It’s a twelve month commitment, so not something you can dip in and out of.
However it IS highly flexible, enabling you to work in a structured manner, but also create your own journey through the material.
The price reflects the high level of personal guidance you’ll get from me, and the potential that exists for those who truly commit to the process.
What’s Included (Gold Mentorship)
- Four hours of private studio time with me per calendar month
- One 60 minute pre-recorded online masterclass per month
- Quarterly in-studio group workshop – EXCLUSIVELY for those on this programme. (recorded, edited version for those who are unable to attend live)
- All my key frameworks for improving your physical conditioning, technical and improvisation skills, curating your own personal style
- Online support from me
I created this to to give all the depth and detail typically omitted by club based teachers catering for the masses.
And to create a truly personalised experience that will help you reach the level you desire much faster.
How Much Does It Cost?
Access to the programme is by monthly recurring payment:
How to Apply
You can start anytime – the first step is to apply using the form below.
There are only 4 platinum and gold places available at any given time.
Once I’ve received your application request, I’ll invite you into the studio so we can discuss your goals, and I can get a feel for where you are in your Salsa journey.
If you’ve applied for a bronze place, our initial discussion will happen via video call.
Please note that the bronze programme is NOT a typical online school where you are left to work entirely on your own. I will still be giving you guidance and feedback.
If you’re accepted onto the programme, you’ll then be invited to set up the monthly payments.