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title: 4 Shoulders
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date: 2026-04-28T08:02:00.567Z
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## FOCUS 
- This lesson focuses on exploring shoulder movement and how it affects the entire body, with the goal of learning to use shoulder movements to generate energy and create fluid motion in blues dancing.
## TIP & TRICKS:
- Roll shoulders forward to shift weight into the balls of your feet and let yourself fall forward.
- Engage serratus interior and lats by pulling elbows down and into your ribs to stabilize the shoulder joint.
- Keep hips relaxed and moving with your shoulders rather than leaving them behind.
- Let your ribs move when engaging shoulder muscles rather than tensing your midsection.
- Direct movement by initiating with your shoulders while maintaining a pulse in them.
- Create opposition by driving one shoulder forward while the other goes back.

##REMEMBER
- Shoulder movement should shift your center of gravity and create a wave of energy through your body.
- Maintain integrity by moving shoulders first before letting your body fall rather than falling then adjusting shoulders.
- Engaging specific muscles like serratus interior and lats helps stabilize and control shoulder movement.
- Hips should follow where your shoulders move to maintain full-body connection.
- Relax your abdominals to create a wavy action rather than restricting movement to just shoulders.
- Shoulder movements can be used to generate motion that affects your entire body in dancing.
