Yoga, movement, and healing go hand-in hand. Yet for some of us, it's easier for us to move in a yoga class than it is to move on the dance floor. Natasha Blank, the founder of Get Your Dance On talks to us about all this good stuff and more!

MBG: How did you first come to dance? How did you first come to yoga?

NB: In the only existing video of me as a kid, I'm about 12 months old, bouncing up and down to my parents' African drumming records. I was always moving. I could only memorize vocabulary words if I was dancing around the living room. My mind just worked better when I was in motion.

I took my first dance class when I was 10, and I started doing yogaaround 14 or 15 to be more flexible for dance. My tap dancing math teacher was the one who convinced me to go. After a four year break from both in 2003, a friend took me to Bikram (which I now refer to as the gateway drug to yoga), and I went to Burning Man for the first time. The playa brought me back to dance in a new way - no more ballet bars, fluorescent lights, or pink tights - just me, the music, the desert, and an atmosphere made for self-expression.....Read more

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