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Your body, yourself: advice on injury prevention from Santa Fe's growing cadre of dancers-turned-healers.

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What would you do in the middle of the desert if your car broke down and you had no road service? Body workers, like mechanics, work to balance and fine-tune the parts of the body to prevent a breakdown. Like a well-maintained, purring vehicle, your body has muscle groups that work in opposition to each other for overall strength and control. Learning about your body--or car--can help you get where you want to go.

Who better understands bodywork than a dancer? New Mexico which is in desert country, attracts many dancers who have become bodywork practitioners. All of these experts, from Pilates to physical therapy, from Alexander Technique to Gyrotonic and Cyrokinesis, agree that if training doesn't include the whole body, all the tension goes to one joint. They chant a variation on the same three mantras: alignment, cross-training (to balance the...

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