Showing posts with label dailey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dailey. Show all posts
Saturday, March 14, 2015
My Dailey Playlist
Music is pretty much always on my mind, but it has been even more so lately and inspired my blog topic this week. Yes, you’ve heard it… I LOVE Spotify. The quantity of music right at your fingertips is so fun and exciting. The opportunity it allows you to get inspiration from others, create, and change up playlists is truly life changing - if you have my life:). When I have a great playlist I know I teach a better class because I’m motivated and inspired. It’s also incredibly motivating to me as a student when my teachers have current, interesting and creative playlists. I make it a goal to always have a playlist that I love. Here’s my current spotify list that I’m taking to Chicago with me for the upcoming teacher workshop series (keep a watch on my instagramfor photos from that). Maybe it will inspire you to do a little thigh dancing or push-ups all on your own!
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A couple of notes on how I design my playlists:
- I always have music in the beginning of my list that that doesn’t necessarily work for class but for the students enjoyment while they’re entering and preparing for class. It sets the mood but still keeps a calm energy- we can pick it up once I put on the microphone!
- I try to have a balance of great new music and old music. I know students really appreciate hearing the new but also familiarity to music is really powerful when people are working deeply.
- I try not to use songs that have profanity but sometimes the song just demands to be played. My daughter Nico loves to help me find songs and she found All About That Bass by Meghan Trainor a couple weeks ago. She said “Mom there’s a couple bad words but it really has positive messaging.” Love! Done!
- I do my best to time my music so that one song will roll into the next. I use my playlist to keep me on track with timing. Now you know- if I have to rewind a song “uh oh!” it’s your 70 minute class.
Here’s some pointers on my current list just in case you want to envision where you’ll be during class for the different songs:
- My warm-upsong is Another Love by Tom Odell- LOVE this song right now!
- Big surprise! you’ll be in thighwork and back dancing with “my boy” Pitbull.
- You’ll be stretching during Battle Scars and Good Girls.
- Life of the Party is for Savasana, helping you walk out stronger, healthier and calmer.
Happy listening!
-- Jill
Dailey Takeaways From our 2014 Owners Retreat
Last week we held our annual Dailey Method owners retreat at our new flagship Studio in Fairfax California. This is truly one of my favorite weeks of the year - getting together with an amazing group of smart, motivated and inspiring women (and a couple men) that are all passionate about the class and the culture and want to keep us evolving and expanding. We took the town by storm: 65 spandex clad women (and a few men NOT in spandex) teaching, sharing, learning from each other and holding up the salad bar line at Good Earth!
When I polled the owners about their biggest Dailey Takeaway, one of the most common ones as a whole was the “YOU” and the “WE” in our Dailey community vs. the “I” and how important this is for our company’s expansion and evolvement - the opportunity to pull from the amazing talent we have together to continually grow upward. I want to share with you what a few of the Dailey Method owners shared with me:
“Every year we come together and Im reminded that together we are better, together we are Dailey Strong! We are a collection of incredibly smart, hard working, passionate (for better or worse), creative, patient, eager, kind and fun women. And when I say strong, I mean in heart, in physical strength, in compassion and openness.”
“One thing that stuck out to me was that there was no feeling of competition. Rather than a room full of people competing to have the best performing studio, and awards given to highest sales, everyone is genuinely interested in the common good of the brand and sharing is promoted by awards given for innovation and following our core values. We have so much talent in our organization and everyone is generous with the sharing of that talent.”
“An amazing AH HA in relation to our Alignment Principles: Our primary Alignment Principles (Align/Engage/Move) not only apply on a micro-level to our bodies and our practice, but also on a macro level to our studios, larger community and TDM brand. Our owners retreats are amazing opportunities to Re-Align; Re-Engage; and then Move. To enjoy and appreciate where we are and evolve! Align/Engage/Move again and again. I think we did this at Owners Retreat & we do it all the time."
“1) Community and 2) Experience. We are part of something so much bigger than just us, than just the single class we take at our specific home studio. We are a strong, diverse, inspirational community that spans the World. Every TDM student belongs to something bigger- an international community and we are all connected by our desire to live life happily. That is why we are all attracted to the Dailey experience. It is more than just a workout that gives us great results. It is a fulfilling spiritual/mind/body experience. We know that our target market wants the mental and emotional benefits from their workout even more than the desire to get a "bikini-body ready." The reason we continue to grow in numbers and strength is our ability to provide the entire experience they are searching for.”
“Im always amazed at the power of having so many motivated and hard working people in one room. I love every conversation whether it is about business strategy or a particular exercise. Getting insight into the way the minds of others work really helps me to expand my own thinking and look at my business, our class and life in general from different perspectives. I feel like this is the major benefit to being part of a group as opposed to being out there on your own.”
“A main takeaway was humility. No matter how long TDM owners have been in business, I felt like we were all one, there were no rankings. Everyone was kind, helpful, inspiring and motivating... you guys are all truly amazing. And you Jill, you created this method and this community - you have these gifts, talents and abilities to offer, yet you dont declare them as such. You are authentic and truly...#tdmcommunity #tdmlove.”
I know I can speak for everyone that we are excited to bring our new learnings, teachings and inspirations home to you, our TDM students and community!
With Dailey Love,
-- Jill
Dailey Now
Dailey New. Dailey NOW! You CAN take it with you!
We are so excited about the recent the release of our new fitness video, Dailey Now! We know that life gets busy and sometimes you can’t find an hour or even a half hour to workout at home. With that in mind, “Dailey Now”is designed to be broken down into 2 /15 minutes segments that can be done either alone or together-giving you a 15 minute and a 30 minute option. You also have one full 60-minute segment in case you can close the doors and bust out a full session!
The idea is: if you have only 15 minutes, the first segment highlights the most important exercises to hit. If you then find you can squeeze in another 15 minutes, I have designed a second 15-minute segment that combines seamlessly with the first to give you a full body workout in 30 minutes. The final segment also includes a full 60-minute class that emphasizes alignment, focused attention, fun and results--just like you would find at a TDM studio!
I’m so happy to be able to offer this additional option to our students for when they are traveling or just short on time and for anyone who doesn’t have the option of taking class at one of our Studios. You can pick up at DVD at any of our Studios or purchase it online here.
- Jill
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