Partner dance is a creative way to increase your vitality and joy, while deepening your connection. Engage this non-verbal way to play together and improve your communication. Practice listening with your whole-body as you move-in-rhythm with each other. 

This moving conversation is fun and heart opening. All are welcome!

PUBLIC LESSONS

Saturdays February 1, 8, 15, from 5:00 – 6:00pm at Tempo Dance Studio, 310 Lake St. S., Big Lake, MN,  $15 pp/class. 

Fridays, March 7, 14, 21, 28 from 7:00 – 8:00pm at Dancing Prairie, Zimmerman, MN, $15 pp/class.

Text for more info, 6125985355 or email julie@move-as-one.com 

PRIVATE LESSONS  

Schedule your own private or group lesson for couples, families, and groups. 

Private lessons are $90/hour for 1-3 couples. Text for more info, 6125985355 or email julie@move-as-one.com 

EXPERIENCE  “Let the music in me, light the music in you.” Julie

As a professional ballroom dance instructor and competitor, my experience includes foxtrot, waltz, viennese, tango, quickstep, rumba, chacha, mambo, samba, swing and two-step. When I began as an amateur competitor, we received multiple first place awards. I noticed my training in Miracle of the Breath and Qigong contributed to a greater expression of dance. Soon, I was asked to share my love for dance with others. This inspired me to teach partner dance.

In 2004, I opened Slippers, a creative arts center in WI. Slippers was nominated main street business of the year in its first year. After moving back to the Twin Cities in 2008, I continued to teach partner dance through Retro Ballroom in St. Louis Park where I received significant training and experience. Since the summer of 2022, we re-located north of Cities to our retreat place – Dancing Prairie – and I am now teaching in Zimmerman, Elk River, and Princeton.

BENEFITS  “As you practice moving as one, you relax, and feel beautifully integrated, purposely flowing, and alive with energy and vitality.” ⏤ Julie

There are many jewels to experience. You can:

• Wake up your natural joy
• Shake off the old and welcome in the new
• Attune your body and heart to open and flourish 
• Nourish the “art of connection”  … 

Let’s move forward on the right foot ⏤ together. Truly, it’s the best therapy for couples. We put emotions into motion and practice relational mindfulness. Research shows that 90% of our communication is non-verbal. Plus, Stanford’s 20-year research shows partner dance improves brain function by 76%, by far the highest results. 

This “dance of connection” offers great support for all kinds of transitions. Transitions can be challenging, whether it is the loss of loved ones, moving locations, career or school changes, family changes, health and aging, or just navigating the ups and downs of life. Partner dance helps you laugh and have fun while releasing stuck emotions and restoring your natural rhythms.

For years I wrote a column in the Dancing Times called “Dance Into Your Best Life”. These articles further fueled my book, Moved To Create