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Lessons from the studio floor.

Articles and frameworks on the craft of cueing: hard-won, plainly written, freely given. No fluff, no filler, no gatekeeping.

010 entries · Freely given · Growing

001Entry 001 — The Thesis · 6 minute readEvery certification tests cueing. Most don’t teach it.Why the practical exam is secretly a speaking exam, why your mind goes blank mid-class, and what actually builds fluency.Read the thesis →
The entries002The Craft · 5 minute readSpeech production under pressure: the skill behind the skill.What happens in the two seconds between seeing a body drift and saying something useful about it.→003The Craft · 4 minute readSilence is a cue.Why the best instructors say less, and how over-cueing trains a class to stop feeling.→004The Craft · 3 minute readThe first cue decides the rep.Why the words you open with shape everything that follows, and how one setup cue can retire three corrections.→005The Craft · 4 minute readSometimes over-cueing is under-cueing.When the body has not found the movement yet, more words are not noise. They are the work.→006The Craft · 4 minute read“I don’t feel it” is a cueing moment.Why the answer to a client who cannot feel the exercise is rarely a different exercise.→007The Craft · 4 minute readGravity is a co-teacher.Why the same cue lands differently in supine, quadruped, and standing.→008The Business · 3 minute readCueing gets no reviews. It gets rebookings.The quietest feedback loop in the studio, and how it decides your schedule.→009The Craft · 4 minute readNot all cues are equal.Internal, external, verbal, visual, tactile: the five words instructors use interchangeably, and why the differences decide whether a cue lands.→010The Craft · 3 minute readA bigger cue library will not save you.Why collecting hundreds of cues produces instructors who use the same six, and what live recall actually takes.→

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