How Can Dancers Eat Healthy When Traveling?
When on vacation, on holiday, or even on tour, dancers must learn how to navigate a new environment while listening to and trusting their body’s cues of hunger, fullness, and satisfaction. This articles teaches you how to eat healthfully and intuitively while traveling.
Read More…How To Create A Healthy Relationship with Food
Dancers can create a healthy relationship with food by using this 5-step guide. As a dancer, your relationship with food plays a key role in the sustainability of your career. Learn how to ditch the dieting mentality, give yourself unconditional permission around food, use food neutrality, practice food flexibility, and integrate mindful eating.
Read More…Sustainable Cross-Training for Dancers
Featured post by Maya Marian Bryant, MPH Candidate, NASM-CPT, Certified Barre Instructor. Founder & CEO of Raise The Barre Fitness Has your dance teacher suggested that you cross-train? Perhaps, it was a suggestion to strength train? With a rigorous dance schedule, this may seem like a daunting task. This article teaches dancers about building a sustainable cross-training routine to enhance their dance training. What is Cross-Training? Cross-training involves the intentional act of engaging in multiple (usually 2 or more) sports…
Read More…Dancers and Body Neutrality
Dancers at all levels struggle with poor body image and/or body dysmorphia, which further leads to disordered eating and/or eating disorders. With the #balletbodiesunite movement making waves throughout our industry, dancers worldwide are speaking out against unrealistic body ideals. But how can dancers truly overcome the desire to fit such an unrealistic mold when the industry continues to exemplify instances of body criticism?
Read More…Body Image Support for Dancers
Body image is created starting at a young age and often reflects internalized messaging, which sets the stage for the development of either a positive or negative body image. Dancers at all levels struggle with poor body image and/or body dysmorphia, which further leads to disordered eating and/or eating disorders. This is a direct result of antiquated body ideals that unfortunately saturate the industry.
Read More…Dancers and Dessert- is it okay?
Dancers often question whether dessert can be a staple in their diet or not. This article will not only answer this question for you but also, shift your perspective in a way that supports your abilities on stage and off. Gentle nutrition and food flexibility, as tools of The Healthy Dancer® framework, can help you in your decision-making around dessert. This includes those deemed “healthy” (like fruit) and those more indulgent options (I’m talking about that brownie sundae with EXTRA…
Read More…Food should be fun. Not stressful
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