By Talia Kuo How many messages have you absorbed, consciously or unconsciously, this week promoting a “healthy lifestyle”? A dozen? A hundred? According to the IHRSA global report on the fitness and health industry, that number is more likely to clock into the tens of thousands. Crazy right? What’s more, if you find yourself surrounded […]
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This week we’ve compiled a list of music that…was frankly quite hard to categorise and create a title for. As an Indian who was born and schooled in the Middle East until age five, I have naturally been around Middle Eastern, Arab and Muslim culture, food and music growing up. People who are Arab, Middle […]
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Happy International dance day (to all of you reading this April 29). Why a day dedicated to dance? What’s the cause that we’re trying to raise awareness for? Play some music and lean back for an education fam. We got this. The Background International Dance Day is a global celebration of dance, created by the […]
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This is the ultimate zen playlist. With music that hails from the African diaspora, through to ambient electronica and Thai-psychedelic chill, we promise that this curation of music is made for altering your brain waves into a state of flow. Starting off we have a tune by artist Laurence Guy, who usually makes kind of […]
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Written by Vanessa Marian, Groove Therapy Founder We are told by the media, friends, doctors, the health industry and fashion brands that our bodies are important and I’m over it. It’s not that I am anti-health, I’m just not a fan of health being about the way we look. In recent years, brands have adopted […]
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Press play bebe. Whilst Groove Therapy is known for being really hype in class, you may notice that a lot of our teachers who you may (or may not) follow on Instagram tend to flow, wave and pop to some really beautiful chilled stuff. It’s not the best music to play to nervous beginners as […]
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Dance floors need not be laden with unsolicited gropes and slurred pick up lines. There’s an opportunity here for men to learn about consensual grinding. WINS FOR ALL. Womxn know the feeling of being groped, harassed or cat called on a dance floor. We know the feeling of dancing with our girls whilst some weird […]
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Have you ever just felt sick of your playlist but also not bothered to comb through new music to see if you vibe any of it? We kind of have the perfect solution – a playlist of those nostalgic tunes that you forgot you loved. House Music House music was born in the early 80s […]
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Twice in the last week I’ve come across Anne Helen Petersen’s ideas around ‘errand paralysis’. It’s this notion that relatively straight-forward life admin stuff somehow feels so overwhelming that it piles up for months on end. That ASOS package we were meant to return, that invoice we were meant to send, that form we needed to lodge and that heartfelt email […]
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Read on for four tips around taking care of yourself (and your mental health) or just scroll to the very end and listen to our love-themed playlist. We’re talking grind-friendly love songs for yourself, your ex and/or for your boo.
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