all about the VIBES
In December 2024 I was invited to do a pop up market at a local-ish Dance studio. I asked the owner what kind of classes she taught and she had mentioned she taught a beginner heels class. Dance has always intrigued me. When I was younger I took ballet and hula. While I loved hula, I had stopped out of fear of doing something alone because my cousin who was doing the class with me had chosen Saturday morning cartoons over hula lol. While I had been taking classes for awhile back then, I was young and didn’t like the idea of taking a class without someone I knew. I had made it a goal in 2025 to go out of my comfort zone and try 5 new activities, even if that meant going alone. I decided that that heels class would be my first activity.
I took my first class the following month and while it was definitely intimidating and scary as fuck I was excited to get back out there. Two years later and I still regularly go to dance, sometimes even twice a week. While it’s at times still intimidating to me (choreo is fun but hard! lol), I don’t think there’s enough I can say about how much her class has changed me. Chances are you’ve found this post from my instagram, in which case you probably already know how much I love that class. Whether it’s through the countless posts/stories I’ve made or the paragraphs of me gushing over the instructor and community.
After class last night, I stayed back and was talking to one of the girls who’s been going regularly for a couple months. She mentioned how she was shy about posting and how she doesn’t feel confident and she was worried about what people would say. And as I was standing there telling her all the reasons why she should not be shy and why she should feel confident and how amazing she is, I realized I was talking to a version of me two years ago who didn’t post a dance until 6 months in. Who even to this day I’m too critical and scared of what people might say.
I don’t know when it happened, when I became the confident one that was hyping someone else up but thats the type of community that Izzy has created. She’s created a space where people can be themselves, are encouraged to let loose and be your baddest self. You don’t have to believe it because she and the class will make you feel it. Maybe not the first class, but the continuous act of going, you’ll definitely feel a change in yourself and that has translated to other aspects of my life.
This year I want to make a point to focusing on me, trying more things that make me feel uncomfortable and finding more activities to fall in love with.
