Dance community-be kind!

In the world where you can be anything- be kind!📷

My biggest passion is dancing. That's what feeds my soul. Dance community is where I spend most of the time aside of family.

Dancing is my Happy Place. I believe people who come to learn to dance and stick to community are just looking for this happy state of mind📷. Many of us not necessarily come back because of dancing but because of how dancing and community makes us feel.

If we felt loved, welcomed, accepted then we definitely wanna come back, dance and be a part of it.

We shape our community. We are in charge of what it will look like tomorrow. Everyone is. We show an example to newcomers what are the "rules and norms". Let's show love and kindness then!

Treat people how you wanna be treated- so simple and obvious, right? Why we wanna bring any negativity to our Happy Place?

Dancing is like psychotherapy. I saw many examples how people were blooming mentally giving up antidepressants just because dancing and communication were working better than drugs and doctors.

So let's make our Happy Place a sacred place. Treat community like it is your baby. You love it unconditionally and wanna keep it safe, happy. You don't wanna traumatize your baby, you don't wanna say gossips about it. You just wanna take care.

And when we are giving without any expectations to get something back- we get so much more naturally. Remember the feeling when you did something obviously right and each cell of your body was celebrating the right decision📷📷? Let's act like this! It brings such a peace of mind and fills our hearts📷!

And remember when you did something negative? What aftertaste you had- only headache, heartache and regrets📷.

When we look at people with loving eyes we see good in them, we believe in them and they really wanna show good sides of them.

The world is the mirror. If negative people stick around you- check what is inside you, what do you translate to the world.

I see so many acts of kindness in our dance community. I do feel loved and appreciated. Not because I am exceptional or special person but because people around me are special, kind, supportive and exceptional.

Sometimes acts of kindness can be small. Small can be significant and important. Smiling, dancing with the new person, saying thank you, not hurting, not gossiping, baking cookies📷, attend workshops with guest instructors, cleaning the studio after dance.

Treating each other like you wanna stay in community for decades not like you are a visiting stranger.

I love our dance community so much! Sometimes I feel like people coming to my classes not because I am that amazing teacher or saying something new (I do say juice inapropriate stuff accidentally , if you wanna laugh- you should come📷📷📷) but because people are so nice and wanna support me as instructor and person.

I am very grateful for Texas community! Even when I have Russian smile and look intimidating- I love you so much!

My messege here is simple- let's be kind and keep your Happy Place happy wherever on a planet you live and dance!📷 Life is not a race.