The Healthy Dancer® Winter Intensive
Start your New Year free from food stress. A 4-week guided nutrition intensive for dancers
As an extension of The Healthy Dancer® Summer Intensive, dancers learn to eat without the noise of dancer diet culture — setting boundaries, challenging unrealistic ideals, and stepping into the new year with confidence. You'll master the first two core values of The Healthy Dancer® framework, working alongside Rachel to build body trust and sustainable habits.
Why now
Don't let the season derail your progress
Winter is a critical season for dancers: training demands stay high while schedules shift around holidays, auditions, and rehearsals — raising the risk of burnout, under-fueling, and heightened body-image pressure. This dance nutrition intensive cuts through the noise with practical, evidence-based tools.
Reliable fueling routines
Build fueling habits that hold up through the most demanding winter schedules.
Confidence through the holidays
Navigate holiday food and body-image pressures without the guilt or the noise.
Protect against under-fueling
Prevent energy deficits and support injury resilience when demand is highest.
Habits that last all year
Establish sustainable nutrition habits that strengthen performance year-round.
Our Focus
We go deep on the first two foundations
The Healthy Dancer® framework has six stages. The Winter Intensive concentrates on the first two, so you start the year with a genuinely different relationship to food and your body.
Dismantle Dancer Diet Culture
Reject the diet mentality and learn a non-restrictive approach to fueling — the first step in cutting through the noise that surrounds dancers every winter.
Make Peace With Food
Remove the morality around your food choices and cultivate a more positive, calmer experience around eating — even through auditions, the holidays, and demanding training seasons.
The full framework
Six stages. This winter, we start with two
You'll build the foundation now — with the full path ahead whenever you're ready to keep going through the membership.
STAGE 01Dismantle Dancer Diet Culture
Reject the diet mentality and unlearn the food rules quietly shaping your performance.
STAGE 02Make Peace With Food
Move away from rigid rules and guilt toward a calmer, more flexible relationship with eating.
STAGE 03The Road to Body Confidence
Build a steadier relationship with your body inside a mirror-heavy, high-pressure world.
STAGE 04Nutrition Without Obsession
Quiet the constant thinking about food, and learn to fuel without it running your day.
STAGE 05Implement Performance Nutrition
Fuel classes, rehearsals, performances, and recovery with real confidence.
STAGE 06Build Sustainable Habits
Lock in habits and a support system that carry you well beyond the studio.
The experience
What each week feels like
A flexible rhythm built to slot into a packed winter — most of it on your own time, with live touchpoints whenever you want them.
On-demand workshops
A thoughtfully designed workshop you can experience on your schedule, from the comfort of your own space. Pause, reflect, and revisit whenever you need it.
Weekly workbooks
Guided activities designed to help you take the concepts off the screen and into everyday life, even on the busiest dance days.
Daily journaling
Accountability exercises and prompts that help you reflect, build awareness, and keep making progress throughout the intensive.
Live session with Rachel
Bring your questions to your dance dietitian and get personalized guidance in real time. Can't make it live? You'll still have access afterward.
Yours the moment you join
Four weeks of workshops — and support that outlasts them
The intensive doesn't end when the last workshop does. Two extras come with your registration to carry you well past December.
The Healthy Dancer® Survival Guide: Nutcracker & Winter Workshop Edition
A complimentary copy to help you prepare for every other intensive and performance on your winter calendar.
TTP Ambassadorship
Continued support and community from To The Pointe Nutrition throughout the year so the work you start this winter keeps going.
The bonus · what's included
Audition Success
The new year surfaces another challenge: audition season. The Winter Intensive collaborates with Former Principal Dancer Cecilia Iliesiu, former professional dancer and dance administrator Kate Loh, and former professional dancer and dance coach Caitlin Sloan to prepare you for the season ahead.
Cecilia Iliesiu
Former Principal Dancer · PNB School Mentorship Manager
Kate Loh
Former Professional Dancer · Dance Administrator
Caitlin Sloane
Former Professional Dancer · Dance Coach
What you'll walk away with
Craft a powerful resume
Build a strong cover letter
Access support from industry professionals
In their words
Dancers who've done the work
Enroll
Discover your new dance season
Built to supplement, not compete with, everything else on your winter calendar.
Early-bird registration opens in September · $100 thereafter
- 4 weeks of on-demand workshops & workbooks
- Live sessions with Rachel + accountability prompts
- Audition Success bonus with three industry pros
- The Survival Guide: Nutcracker & Winter Edition
- Year-round TTP Ambassadorship
Curious what four weeks looks like? See a sample schedule.
Register for the Winter IntensiveFAQs
Winter Intensive Questions
Once registered, you'll receive a welcome packet with your workshop and masterclass schedule. Beginning at the end of November, you'll get weekly emails containing every resource for that week's classes. You'll also have 24/7 email support and a complimentary copy of The Healthy Dancer® Survival Guide: Nutcracker and Winter Workshop Edition to help you prepare for any other intensives you attend.
The entire 4-week program is $100. Early-bird registration opens in September at a discounted rate of $75 — quite possibly the least expensive winter intensive out there.
Because intensives are busy by nature, most of the program is completed on your own time — it's designed as the perfect supplement to your holiday season. Weekly workbooks offer activities to help you unwind from a busy dance day, and all workshops are pre-recorded, so you can tune in when it suits you (tea in hand, from your bedroom). Any live sessions you miss, except office hours, are available afterward as recordings.
Once you register, you'll receive your welcome packet and a preliminary schedule. The program begins late November and ends mid-December. Here's a sample schedule.
Refunds are reviewed case by case. My goal is for you to feel confident and supported, so if you decide it isn't the right fit you may request a refund within the first three days of working together. Approved refunds are subject to a processing fee. Elite-level coaching sessions must be used within six months of purchase.
Dancers of all ages, backgrounds, and levels who want to build sustainable habits that support a lifelong dance career. Whether or not you're currently enrolled in a winter intensive elsewhere, The Healthy Dancer® is a virtual, supplemental program designed to elevate your training and optimize your well-being.
Step into the new year
Ready to dance into the new year without the food noise?
Four weeks, on your schedule, with a board-certified dance dietitian in your corner. Reserve your spot at the early-bird rate.
