invite or influence the way that they
breathe through the skin or like body
contact like
not squeezing not like really forcing
your way in that will be like perfect
because it will be like the gentlest
thing the fluffiest thing yeah and it's
kind of like and then you just being
there together yeah and yeah i had like
amazing dance um
just doing like
basic stuff on a clothes hold like for
many many songs right and then literally
just like
nothing fancy it's just like very
relaxing very smooth just a little very
connected but there's a lot of that
breathing a lot of that kind of like
getting back into your body
and just don't worry too much about the
other patterns
sometimes as leads i think we also worry
that oh my god they might be bored yeah
yeah
they might want us to do something fancy
but
a lot of the time this is like
it's the sensations right yeah yeah
exactly the sensations it's like even
though
it's the same
sort of pattern if you just you if you
go you you do something simple and then
you go to like a certain pattern and
then you do other other simple things
and then you go back to that pattern
because of the way you combine it with
the music the timing and everything it
could feel different you know i
i understood that
theoretically
but then when we danced at your master
class i was like wow okay like that that
sort of solidified it as well so like i
think for the leads it's important to
maybe learn how to how to follow or
maybe just like you know grab your
favorite zook leader who can breathe and
then
ask them to
ask them to lead and then i think it
will it will really help you understand
that you don't have to do all these
crazy things all the time it's not it's
not salsa
i think it's a challenge for the
follower as well because um i think a
lot of followers always anticipating oh
what's next what's next or what what
should we be doing or like and then it's
very hard to have that stillness it's
very hard to just like
okay
there's nothing else that's just like
chill and let's just like you know
just
be there for each other and just like
enjoy the moment of just that breathing
the weight shift it's very very hard
actually for a lot of followers because
they're like again fancy stuff oh my god
head movements and all of these like
hair whips and all of that stuff
and then
the simplest enjoyment is literally just
be present in your body feeling that the
grounding like instantly that you're
grounded and your partner is there with
you
and it's just the simplest thing but
sometimes we are in our heads like oh my
god might be like we might be in this
hole for too long it's only been 30
seconds
right before too long and the photo's
like oh my god did i miss something that
he did not move anywhere
is that kind of like chatters in your
mind right it does take a while to i
think to just
to let go get out of here get out of the
habits yeah yeah yeah i think it's it's
you know it should be normalized to like
dance
four or five songs in a row like because
sometimes like in the first the first
two songs right like this is i tell my
class this um
so we were just um
doing we we did this like basic step tap
step type because it's step step step
tap step step tap but we just did step
tap step tap but kind of like moving the
shoulders a little bit and then
and then some of them were
were like a bit confused like this is
too easy and then i'm like yeah it is
easy but like it serves two purposes
actually because when when like and this
happens
99 of the time like i see this like
every time a girl just finished dancing
with someone they're like
like they're like really really like
tense like almost sometimes like
shaking
and then like the purpose of just like
doing the basic is to relax them so that
they're like oh thank god it's not
something crazy anymore yeah you know i
don't have to like squeeze my glutes so
that my back doesn't hurt it's it's a
really really nice feeling just to kind
of relax them and then once they we're
both relaxed we have that opportunity to
kind of like play yeah with like tiny
movements tiny simple movements