Hi, I'm Jeanna Vance.
I was raised in a ballet conservatory and spent my career as a classical and concert dancer. But I wanted to understand the body, not just train it — so I became a massage therapist out of a love for kinesiology and physiology, and kept studying: Pilates, yoga, functional movement, resistance training, mobility work. Thirty years of trying to understand how the body actually moves, where it gets stuck, and how it stays strong over a lifetime.
I'm still performing well into a season when most dancers have stepped away. Not because I'm exceptional, but because the way we move, eat, and care for ourselves over the years genuinely changes what's possible. That's the whole reason I teach this.
For me, movement has always been the most natural language I share with God — how I pray, how I stay close to Him. So when my own body changed through motherhood and perimenopause, it wasn't just frustrating. It was like losing access to my own voice. Coming back wasn't punishment, and it wasn't vanity. It was offering this body up, as it is.
That's the work I do with women now — and make no mistake, it's trained, intentional, technically excellent work. Faith-rooted and rigorous aren't separate things — they never have been for me.
This challenge is a small but real beginning of it.