Product Catalogue

Enhancing the Body / Brain Connection:
The Inner Dance of Success

by Deborah Vogel

When your thoughts, emotions and actions are in alignment, miracles happen! This ebook will teach you the steps to create the life you desire by changing your mindset — which directly influences your emotions and actions. Creating optimal performance is important in the classroom, on stage, and in everyday life. There is science behind optimizing the body/brain connection. You will learn how to focus your thoughts and the power of mental rehearsals. The wisdom of soft strength and using ideokinesis to improve flexibility without stretching, and much, much more.

available for download in PDF format only

US $19.95            Code DVBBCEBK

Train Your Brain: A Teen's Guide to Well Being

by Deborah Vogel

This book is designed for teens and pre-teens as a way to begin the dialogue about self-sabotaging beliefs and thoughts that so influence our student's patterns of behavior and success. This 48 page book introduces eight teens with common problems and challenges such as how to take charge of your feelings and how to perform like a pro in the dance studio or anywhere and everywhere. They will learn techniques such as Mental Rehearsing, Creating a Feeling, Refocusing and a very powerful Acting as If. These fun activities will help to train your brain — whether a teen or an adult — towards success.

48 pages. paperback

US $11.95            Code DVTYB

FUNctional Anatomy for Dancers

by Deborah Vogel and Anneliese Burns Wilson

FUNctional Anatomy for Dancers is a series of teaching guides written for dance teachers, by dance teachers. The lessons and exercises have been used and fine-tuned in dance classes across the country. There are four levels. Each level is designed to stand alone. The curriculum series layers the levels to follow a natural progression of building knowledge from basic to more specific and challenging lessons. The series is designed for dancers over the age of 10.

Levels One, Two and Three are ready for you to purchase now. Level Four to follow soon!

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Tune Up Your Turnout

by Deborah Vogel

Traditional teaching of turnout often fails to account for anatomical differences in dancer's bodies. Don't waste time wading through anatomy books that aren't focused on dance, or dance books that aren't focused on turnout. Nowhere else will you find such easy-to-use information specifically designed to help you achieve the best turnout possible while avoiding injury. Packed with scientifically accurate feedback and common-sense advice, Tune up Your Turnout is the definitive guide to getting the best turnout with the least frustration.

available in paperback only

US $14.95            Code DVTUTO

Taking Root To Fly:
Articles on Functional Anatomy

by Irene Dowd

Since 1970 Irene Dowd has taught dance, dance composition, functional and kinesthetic anatomy at such institutions as Teachers College, Columbia University, Wesleyan University, Julliard, ADF, Naropa, and the National Ballet School of Canada. She has maintained a private practice in neuromuscular training for over 30 years. Taking Root to Fly: Articles on Functional Anatomy has 10 articles covering such topics as "In Honor of the Foot", "Finding Your Center", and "Visualizing Movement Potential". Her writing helps dancers and dance teachers undersand how the body was designed to move efficiently and effortlessly when it is working within anatomical principles.

available in paperback only

US $21.00            Code DVTRF